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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has announced an overhaul of student visa rules aimed at stopping 'visa hopping' and what the government calls 'permanently temporary' migration. Students switching courses onshore will face extra fees, reportedly around $1,200, and tighter transfer rules under updated National Code standards. Businesses have also raised concerns about related backpacker visa changes, amid a reported 15 percent drop in working holidaymaker numbers, warning staffing will get harder.
- 2Open-source AI coding tool Pi 1.0 officially released▼The free and open-source AI coding tool 'Pi 1.0' has been officially released, adding MCP support and the ability to switch between multiple AI models.
The free and open-source AI coding tool Pi has reached its 1.0 official release. The new version adds support for MCP (Model Context Protocol), letting the assistant connect to external tools and data sources, and allows developers to switch between multiple AI models within the tool. It gives programmers a flexible, no-cost alternative to proprietary coding assistants, with the model-switching feature drawing attention as a way to avoid vendor lock-in.
- 3Schools in America remain deeply segregated, says NPR essay●Let's stop pretending we desegregated schools https://www.npr.org/2026/10/02/nx-s1-5987870/lets-stop-pretending-we-deseg
An NPR Code Switch essay argues that the United States never truly desegregated its public schools, despite the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The piece contends that segregation persists through residential patterns, funding disparities, and policy choices, and urges Americans to stop treating school integration as an accomplished fact of history.