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Who builds buildings? Thats tradespeople. Theres a whole industry sitting around building our facilities. In one of the cases that we have got, one of our universities is starting a major science precinct ... They are slowing that down while they work out what the economic impact [of the travel ban] will be.

One university is understood to be considering postponing a project worth more than $150 million, expecting the saving could match the revenue lost this semester.

In 2017, the most recent year for which comprehensive national data is available, the 12 universities that account for 80 per cent of Chinese students collectively had $1.47 billion worth of property under construction. The largest developments were at the University of Sydney with $318 million, UNSW with $205 million, UniSA with $272 million and Monash University with $165 million.

Some universities, including UNSW and the University of Queensland, are in the midst of major expansion projects that could be affected by the travel restrictions.

The restrictions currently apply until February 29. How they apply to tertiary students will be reviewed in the coming week, after government medical officials advised there was scope for relaxation subject to the virus being contained and strict health protections being in place in Australia.

That will depend on the growth and containment outside of Hubei [the province where the outbreak originated] in mainland China, Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Saturday.

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If allowed into the country, students would need to self-isolate for 14 days with the support of their host universities. The window for students to begin studies on the ground in Australia is rapidly closing, with the teaching semester getting under way and the end of March looming as a critical deadline for enrolments.

Margaret Sheil, vice-chancellor of QUT, which currently has about 1200 international students stuck offshore, said her university was not as exposed as others, but even so a tight operating surplus of around $20 million this year could be wiped out.

The biggest impact in the longer term, if this was to go on, would be less investment in capital, in facilities, she said.

Professor Sheil pointed to the governments abolition of a $3.9 billion education investment fund, from which the dollars were diverted to a fund for natural disaster responses.

We now dont have that kind of co-funding for capital investment and that would be where Id be focusing, because that would be a longer term, sustained response, she said.

We wont be able to invest in facilities for domestic students in the way that we have unless there is some relief there.

Federal education minister Dan Tehan said the travel ban would have an economic impact, but the government wanted to mitigate it and universities were in strong financial positions.

My hope is, in the short term, in the next two to three weeks, we might start to see some breakthroughs which will mean that some of those contingency plans that some of the universities are having to look at, they might be able to change their plans, he said.

Fergus Hunter is an education and communications reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

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It advertised salaries of up to $5,000 per week, paid vacations, full health and dental insurance, and tuition subsidies for student employees. The agency advertised online and at London bus stops.

It had a code of ethics for clients and banned unsavoury clients. Customers paid by cash or credit and the agency kept half the gross revenue generated by the escort.

McKay, of the Ontario Court of Justice, released his ruling Friday after a 10-day trial that concluded last June. The case began in London and concluded in Kitchener after McKay was reassigned to a new courthouse.

He found that sex workers on the street are most at risk of violence, that sex work is safer when it moves indoors, and that sex workers are safer when clients are screened, security staff are hired, and their trade is professionally managed.

McKay found that advertising makes prostitution safer by opening up channels of communication, minimizing the risks of violence, and helping sex workers get off the street.

He found that banning advertising and banning people from managing the sex work of others "without coercion" violates the Charter because it increases the risk of injury or death, criminalizes helpful behaviour, and is "grossly disproportionate in its effects on liberty and security of the person."

The ruling dismays an advocate who argues Canada is properly taking aim at prostitution.

"It's astounding," said John Cassells, director of a group called Men Ending Trafficking. "We have a situation now in Ontario where we're protecting pimps, and their Charter rights apparently supersede the rights of victims and vulnerable women and girls to be protected."

Lockyer disagrees that the ruling encourages pimps to traffick vulnerable females.

"This ruling has nothing to do with permitting exploitation. On the contrary. It prevents exploitation by enabling legitimate relationships to be set up that are not explotive," he said.

While police can still lay prostitution charges against escort services, they should seek good advice from a prosecutor before doing so, Lockyer said.

Prosecutors are reviewing the ruling. The Ministry of the Attorney General could not say Friday if it will be appealed.

McKay found that defence experts relied on evidence while prosecution experts were "committed advocates for the abolition of the sex industry." He gave prosecution experts no weight in his ruling.

Defence lawyer Jack Gemmell hopes the ruling persuades the Liberal government to reconsider the prostitution law.

The ruling surprised Osgoode Hall law professor Debra Haak, who earned a PhD studying the role of law in prostitution.

"What it tells me is that this law is complicated, and that this law opens up really important questions about the intersection between people's individual rights under our Charter, and the rights of groups under our Charter," she said.

She said she expects the prostitution law will need to be tested at an appeal court and at the Supreme Court of Canada.

"I imagine in the next week or two there will be a lot of people pointing to this decision and claiming that it stands for certain things," Haak said.

Parliament enacted the law after the Supreme Court found the previous prostitution law unconstitutional in 2013.

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VIJAYAWADA: About two years ago, when the TDP severed its ties with the BJP-led NDA, the saffron party ended up with perhaps its worst-ever performance in any State in the country at the hustings.

The TDP alleged that the Centre betrayed the State and carried out an extensive campaign against the BJP.

Though the political dynamics in the State took a 180-degree turn in the elections that followed, the BJP is still limping its way to recovery because of the damage inflicted on it.

But, once bitten, twice shy, the national party now seems to be more aware of the political pitfalls in Andhra Pradesh.

That, perhaps, is the reason for BJP leaders like GVL Narasimha Rao to swing into action to bring in a national perspective to the State politics by clearly defining the role of the Centre in matters of the State, even when some of his colleagues openly pinned hopes on and promised Centres intervention in issues like capital relocation.

The Centre cant intervene in the matters of the State. There is a clear distinction between State politics and Central governance. Had we promised something which was not in the Centres purview and eventually the Centre clarified that capital location was a matter of the State, we would have been blamed for reneging on the promises made by our local party leaders, reasoned GVL Narasimha Rao, Rajya Sabha MP and partys national spokesperson, in an interview with TNIE on Friday.

The MP is clear that over-promising would only hurt his party. Of course, we would have gotten political mileage had we capitalised on the issue, but we are not here to over-promise. Since I have clarified from the very beginning that Centre will not intervene, there is no shock factor now, saving us from an adverse political fallout, he added.

Though the Centre has a limited role when it comes to the matters of State, the BJP had adopted a political resolution against the three-capital idea of the YSRC government.

Recalling how the Union government refused to interfere in the matters of State in the past, GVL observed, When TDP was in power here and NDA was ruling at the Centre, we (BJP State unit) gave representation to Ravi Shankar Prasad, who was the Union law minister even then, to nudge the State in the direction of setting up the High Court in Rayalaseema, a matter in which the Centre could have a say.

He squarely refused and suggested that we could politically fight for it. Even now, we may have passed a political resolution in favour of Amaravati, but the Centre will not interfere just because the party might politically benefit.

The same will be the case with respect to the issue of abolition of Legislative Council. GVL said that the motivations for the State governments decision to scrap the Council would be irrelevant for the Centre. Motivations of Council abolition are not relevant to the Centre. It will go by the procedure and precedents. There is no scope for rejection. The Central government will do what the Constitution says, he revealed.

But will the BJP really benefit for supporting the fight against capital relocation? See, we have two options: either to stay away or take the side of the people. In the interest of the State, we have supported Amaravati, GVL noted.

Keeping past experiences and national perspective in mind, besides being wary to not to fall into the trap of the TDP, the saffron party has evolved its strategy to grow in the State based on its ideology. That is the reason for the party to close the doors for the TDP, which was its ally in the last term, forever. As a political party, we are here to protect public interest.

"The hypocrisy of the TDP is that it was us to follow Chandrannas Constitution. When his party is in power, Centre cant intervene in State issues. But, when YSRC is ruling, he wants Centre to override all States decisions.

"This is not done. There is no way for the TDP to be back in the NDA fold. Not even in the next election, he asserted, recalling partys previous national chief Amit Shahs statement in Vizianagaram before the 2019 polls.

It seems the BJP strongly believes that its partnership with Pawan Kalyans Jana Sena would brighten its prospects in the State.

Pawan Kalyan will be a huge asset, he said. It was widely speculated that many of the saffron party members were against the idea of alliance with the actor-turned-politician, who withdrew his support to his once-ally for denying special category status to Andhra Pradesh.

The Rajya Sabha MP confirmed that there were certain reservations within the party initially, but all is well now.

Weve had a few apprehensions as to how our partnership would evolve, but after meeting Jana Sena leaders in the first coordination meeting they were instantly resolved and we got comfortable to work together, he said.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Immigrant justice activists will talk about their work in a panel discussion that kicks off a series of spring events focused on the theme of abolition.

The discussion Abolition and Immigrant Justice is at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Knight Auditorium at Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana. The event is free and open to the public.

The panelists will talk about their work, particularly in Chicago, as grassroots organizers against detentions, deportations and the criminalization of immigrant and other targeted communities. They will discuss strategies they use such as policy work, legal activism, strategic communications and civil disobedience to combat racism and xenophobia, and what a sustained organizing campaign looks like.

The panelists are 35th Ward Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa; Arianna Salgado and Rey Wences, both of Organized Communities Against Deportations; and Brbara Suarez Galeano, of Detention Watch Network. Communication professor Josue David Cisneros will moderate the discussion.

The panel discussion is part of the Abolition Initiative of the Center for Advanced Study, looking at what W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis call abolition democracy, encompassing not just a rebellion against massive policing, surveillance and incarceration, but also a process of creation. The initiative is examining interconnected power dynamics across prisons, police, immigration, gendered and sexual violence, environmental justice and disability justice.

This felt really timely for our current moment. There are many people wanting to imagine a better world, and they want the tools to do that, said Toby Beauchamp, a professor of gender and womens studies who co-organized the initiative with Naomi Paik, a professor of Asian American studies. Their research looks at policing, surveillance and incarceration.

Abolition democracy includes reinvesting in institutions and structures that build healthy communities, such as education, health care, preschool, child care, elder care and mental health services, Paik said.

Paik and Beauchamp said they hope the panel discussion will provide a range of models for the way organizers put ideas into practice.

Sometimes we dont know how to contribute or what we can contribute. We hope that by providing all these models, we can show people different entry points into community-building, Paik said. Its also thinking about what it takes to sustain it. Doing movement building from grassroots is really hard.

As part of the Abolition Initiative, Paik and Beauchamp are teaching a graduate seminar this semester that also is examining practices to redirect resources away from oppressive systems, including a look at efforts to dismantle the prison industrial complex.

The other spring events of the Abolition Initiative are:

Indigenous Resistance, Anti-Colonial Politics, and Global Environmental Justice, 4 p.m. March 3, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Jaskiran Dhillon, a professor of global studies and anthropology at The New School and an anti-colonial scholar and organizer, will talk about how environmental crises are tied to colonial violence and about Indigenous peoples involvement in environmental justice movements.

Visual Resistance: Demanding the Impossible, 5-7 p.m. March 26, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign. This exhibition of work by artist Monica Trinidad and others is part of the Ys Art at the Y program, which uses art to engage with issues of social justice, environmental activism and cultural understanding. Trinidad creates narrative-centered illustrations to support social justice movements, and she founded For the People Artists Collective in Chicago. The exhibition will be up in the YMCA gallery through May 17.

#BlackLivesMatter: From the Frontlines of Criminal Justice Reform, 4 p.m. April 14, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Artist, organizer and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors will be the speaker.

Fall 2019 events included discussions examining the prison industrial complex; queer and transgender mutual aid projects; and survivors of violence and people with disabilities in the transformative justice movement.

Most of the years events have included workshops led by the speakers, so students and community members have the opportunity to work with people who are doing work on the ground and have organizing experience, Beauchamp said. Some of the participants from Thursdays panel discussion will be meeting with students and community members to talk about the anatomy of a campaign and organizing over the long term. The workshop, which is free and open to the public, is 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday in Levis Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana.

The Abolition Initiative will continue for the 2020-21 academic year with two to three events of different formats.

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The government on Sunday said that abolition of Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) would benefit all the taxpayers in the country. Government said, "Tax to be paid by them (taxpayer) on their dividend income would be less than what they were earlier paying indirectly through DDT".

The centre added that abolition of DDT would encourage low-income earners, who have total income up to Rs 5 lakh, to invest in capital market. Also, the decision will provide relief to a large class of investors.

"It would encourage low-income earners to invest in the capital market as the person with total income up to Rs 5 lakh will not have to pay tax on dividend income as against 20.56 per cent paid by them indirectly," the government said.

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Currently, India levy 20.56 per cent DDT on a company declaring dividends. This is over and above the corporate tax that companies pay on their taxable profit. Apart from this, resident non-corporate taxpayers (Individuals, Hindu Undivided Families or a firm) need to pay 10 per cent tax on dividends in excess of Rs 10 lakh a year. Hence, the effective tax rate becomes much higher.

Government added that the new system would boost debt mutual fund market as most individuals would have to pay tax at lower rate on income received by debt fund.

"Rate similar to DDT for distribution of income by debt fund was 25 per cent for individual and HUF and 30 per cent for others. After grossing up and including surcharge/cess this comes to 38.33 per cent and 49.92 per cent respectively," it said. Hence, the proposal has not only addressed the issue of inequity in dividend taxation but has also given relief to non-residents, it added.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech, announced the abolition of DDT--a move that will result in revenue foregone to the tune of Rs 25,000 crore.

The centre stated that single rate of taxation was always unfair as it favoured taxpayers who were in higher tax brackets and work against those who were in lower tax brackets.

"India has always followed a classical system of taxation. However, for ease of collecting taxes and to reduce the compliance burden on companies in issuing so many tax deduction certificates, it was decided to follow DDT system of taxation so that the tax is collected at one place," it said.

According to the government, most countries in the world follow this classical system of taxation. There are only a few countries like Australia which allows a credit of tax paid by the company while taxing dividend in the hands of shareholders.

(With ANI inputs)

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Abolition of DDT to benefit all taxpayers: Government - Business Today

In a crass, offensive exaggeration, Nigel Farage has compared Brexit to the abolition of slavery.

Farage was speaking on a Brexit blind date organised by the Victoria Derbyshire programme, where he was joined by Boris Johnsons sister Rachel who was opposed to leaving the EU.

The Brexit Party leader took the opportunity to try to impress Johnson by comparing his political achievements to the end of slavery.

He said: The established status quo never want change of any kind at all. Slaverys a very, very good example of this where an increasing number of people think its wrong, but the argument gets made that if it ends it itll have catastrophic consequences for the economies of Bristol and Liverpool.

Johnson rightfully shot back, in bewilderment: Are you comparing the EU to slavery, to which Farage replied: Same argument. Those that are in power are doing very well out of slavery. Theyve done very well out of slavery for a long time. And even though they know themselves that morally its wrong, they will do everything they can

Johnsons face pretty much said it all.

Of course this isnt the first time that a member of the Brexit Party has drawn a comparison between the EU and slavery.

In her inaugural speech to European Parliament, pantomime politician Ann Widdecombe said that leaving the EU would be like casting off the chains of slavery.

At the time, Widdecombe was widely condemned, with then-Liberal Democrat MP Chuka Umunnacalling her commentsgrossly offensive.

Lets hope Farage is met with the same response.

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New Delhi/IBNS: Taking a jibe at the Opposition, mainly Congress, Prime Minister Narenra Modi in Parliament on Thursday said the historic steps like the abrogation of Article 370 and abolition of triple talaq would not have happened had the present government followed the footsteps of its predecessors.

Mocking the Opposition for saying the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in hurry to take steps, Modi addressing the Lok Sabha said, "Had we continued on the road followed by the previous governments, Article 370 would not have been abrogated even after 70 years. Muslim women would continue to face the wrath of Triple Talaq."

"Had we continued the way you governed, we would have never opened the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor. We could never have solved the India-Bangladesh border issue following your steps," added the Prime Minister in reply to the motion of thanks on the President's Address.

Defending the government's swiftness in taking decision, Modi said, "The world has expectations from India. If we don't challenge the challenges and speed up our development, the country would probably have to face problems for a long time in the future."

"We want to walk a new line, devoid of the league. It's been 70 years since Independence and India should not wait for development anymore. We want to increase both the speed and scale of the work," he added.

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Slamming old ways of the previous governments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that if our government would have continued to work according to "the old ways", decisive and determined decisions like abrogation of Article 370, resolution of Ram Janmabhoomi issue, abolition of Triple Talaq, Chief of Defence Staff would not have been possible.

Prime Minister Modi was replying to the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address in the Lok Sabha.

In a scathing attach on Congress and opposition, he said government sat idle for 70 years. "Some members have asked that why this government is in so much hurry," he said. Replying to this Modi said the government wants to work away from the league. "The Country is not ready to wait forever. The people of India have not only changed the 'Sarkar' (government). They want the 'Sarokar' to be changed as well," he added.

"Our approach helped us in taking big decisions and the decisions were not taken based on vote bank politics," Prime Minister said.

"We have kept the fiscal deficit in check. Price rise is also under check and there is macro-economic stability. Investor confidence should increase, the country's economy should be strengthened, for this we have also taken several steps," he said.

He also took a dig at the Congress' leader of opposition Adheer Ranjan for regular interruptions during his speech. He thanked him for promoting Fit India Movement of the government. "Adheer ji not only give speech in Parliament but also do gymming. I thank him for promoting the government's Fit India movement.

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the Federation of migrants of Russia has called for the abolition of compulsory examination for immigrants who work on patents. About it reports Agency Moscow with reference to the President of the organization Vadim Kozhenova.

According to him, this form of control is not effective, but because the exam should be lifted, at least for some categories of citizens.

Accredited organizations across the country take the exam, the idea is good, but all came to the conclusion that these certificates are now just sell. 90% of the certificates fake, said Koenov.

the President of the organization added that the training of newcomers to the Russian language should continue, it is also important to find effective methods.

If one comes here in any case he is immersed in the language, communicating with native speakers. The certificate does not stimulate migrants to learn the language. It is necessary to change the system itself, said the expert.

Earlier it was reported that migrant workers joined the Moscow budget of nearly 72 billion. In all, the city issued more than two million patents.

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One of William Stills major accomplishments was teachinghimself to read and write in a period when laws prohibited enslaved Africansand black people in general from doing so.

Despite having little formal education, he was able to read everything available to him and studied grammar. This will become useful in his later fight against slavery and racism.

While risking his own freedom to assist fugitive slaves, Still documented the lives and difficulties of the hundreds of runaway slaves he came into contact with.

This produced his popular 1872 book The Underground Railroad, which remains the only first-person account of activities on the Underground Railroad that was written and published by an African American.

TheUnderground Railroad was a large movement inNorth Americaconsistingof several individuals who worked together to aid slaves in their escape fromtheir captors.

The freedom network began in the 1830s; there were homes and businesses which became known as stations along the route toward the north. These homes provided temporary shelter for fugitive slaves before they continued the rest of their journey.

People like Harriet Tubman who helped these enslaved Africans move from one station to the other were called conductors. Still was, however, known as a station master.

The Underground Railroad extended to Canada in1834 after the latter had outlawed slavery. By the end of 1850, the network hadhelped 10,000 slaves escape to freedom.

Most accounts agree that the stories of themovement would have been lost had it not been the works of Still, who recordedthe networks activities.

Born free on October 7, 1821, in Burlington County, New Jersey, Still was the youngest of 18 children. Both of his parents were born into slavery. His father bought his freedom and his mother escaped slavery, though she had to escape twice after she was caught the first time.

When she finally made it, she had to leave behind two of her children, who were later sold to slave owners in the Deep South.

In the 1840s, Still moved to Philadelphia where he first worked as a janitor for the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (PSAS) before rising to the position of clerk. He later married.

Starting a coal delivery business, Still became a successful man and an important member of the black community in Philadelphia. In 1852, he became chair of PSASs Vigilance Committee, assisting fugitive slaves who passed through the city on the Underground Railroad.

His Underground Railroad station (home) became a popular stop for fugitive slaves who were making their way towards Canada.

Tubman, one of the popular conductors, occasionally stopped by his home during her rescue missions. Still provided shelter and food to many of the runaway slaves, and even funded many of Tubmans rescue expeditions.

In effect, Still rescued around 800 slavesthrough his work with the Underground Railroad, earning him the title, Fatherof the Underground Railroad.

Penning down records of the hundreds offugitive slaves he came into contact with, including the sacrifices they madeto escape slavery, Still kept their information hidden until slavery wasabolished in 1865.

Seven years after the abolition of slavery, he published his collected interviews with the runaway slaves in his book The Underground Rail Road. One of the interviews was of a fugitive slave named Peter who turned out to be his own brother.

Being directed to the Anti-Slavery Office for instructions as to the best plan to adopt to find out the whereabouts of his parents, Still wrote. Fortunately, he fell into the hands of his own brother, the writer, whom he had never heard of before, much less seen or known.

Still hired agents to sell his book, which would go through three editions and would be exhibited in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition to remind visitors of the legacy of slavery in the United States.

We very much need works on various topics from the pens of colored men to represent the race intellectually, Still once said of his book.

Today, his book, which is known worldwide, is important not only because of the records of Stills incredible feats and the people he helped but also for showing that Blacks had the intellectual ability and were fearless individuals who struggled for their own freedom.

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