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Test scores plummet
High school students have recorded their worst maths and reading results in international tests and 15-year-olds are now two and a half years behind teenagers who went to school at the turn of the century. Programme for International Assessment (PISA)...
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Bank of Pauline
One Nation publicly reported racking up $400,000 in debts to its leader and financial backer Pauline Hanson over the past decade without corresponding records to show she had lent the money in the first place. A tally of known payments by Hanson plus...
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‘I am not the same person’
Elouise Massa has achieved sweeping policy changes that few seasoned politicians could manage. Deep in the fog of unimaginable grief after losing her two-year-old son Joe to catastrophic medical errors at the privately run Northern Beaches Hospital,...
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Hopes for a miracle pinned to the wall in Nepal
Six more Australians have been identified as missing in the Nepalese floods, as the overall number rises to 41, in what could be the worst loss of Australian life overseas since the Bali bombings. Bharat Mangwani, Karan Bhardwaj, Arpan Kothari, Bhavin...
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Support surges to Nepal
artificial intelligence, another ‘‘biggie’’, would become a larger part of his agenda next year. Risking a backlash from the Trump administration and voters concerned about government overreach, a cabinet source suggested Albanese was shifting his key...
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WAVE OF DEVASTATION
Relatives and friends of 35 Australians reported missing after a deluge of ice and rock destroyed parts of Nepal and China are desperately searching for news of their loved ones and hoping they are alive. At least 14 of those missing are believed to...
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We will always love you
Nashville: Ernie Samora left home in Denver just a month ago and moved to the capital of country music. Little did he know that Tennessee was about to lose its undisputed queen. ‘‘Dolly was a bright light of kindness, generosity, empathy and...
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How one school asked students to help solve the consent crisis
One glance up from her desk reminds principal Julie Mcgonigle of the utter destruction caused by unchecked gendered stereotypes and violence. On her wall hangs a circle of eucalyptus leaves painted blue, an artwork created on the day sports coach...
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The mother of all transformations
over the past few years, inflation has been the top issue. The research shows One Nation voters are slightly less well off than the average voter ($101,000 versus the average $109,000 income); more likely to live outside major cities; and 12...
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Swans scandal deepens
At least one fresh allegation of sexual assault and multiple claims of sexual conduct without consent have been made by the three women at the centre of an investigation involving Sydney Swans players in Melbourne. They come as police were alerted to...
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After a week of trauma, the game goes on
A desire to support the players not caught up in the Sydney Swans scandal looks set to ensure a large number of fans attend Sunday’s double-header at the SCG. While disappointment remains among fans at what captain Callum Mills said was the ‘‘actions...
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Catholic Schools ousts CEO Mcinerney
Catholic Schools NSW has sacked its chief executive officer Dallas Mcinerney after his damaging appearance in the witness box at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, as the Catholic Church seeks to insulate itself from a growing donations...
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Police sorry for miscommunication in midst of bushwalk tragedy
NSW Police will investigate a series of failures that resulted in officers mistakenly informing the family of missing bushwalker Lily Hooper that the 18-year-old had been found alive after an eight-day search in the state’s Southern...
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‘Deeply ashamed’: Swans in crisis
Five Sydney players were handed season-ending bans by the Swans yesterday for breaching the club’s behavioural standards and barred from All-australian honours as doubts emerged over their playing futures. Hours after club officials described the...
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Swans players quizzed by club as suspensions loom
Key Sydney Swans AFL players were quizzed individually by Swans officials yesterday as they face club-imposed suspensions of multiple matches over their conduct in Melbourne. AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon suggested the players could also face AFL...
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SWANS SCANDAL
Key Sydney Swans players are at the centre of a Victoria Police sexual assault investigation putting their immediate playing futures under a cloud and plunging the club’s finals campaign into turmoil. The investigation relates to an allegation of...
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Sparks twinkle in the eyes amid AI jobs fight
Early starts on frigid days, crawling in roof cavities, and badtempered dogs – according to the hundreds of Day in My Life videos that populate the internet, these are common realities in the workplace for Australia’s electricians. Despite the hazards...
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Karvan’s secret life of Logies fashion
Thirty-five years ago, a 19-year-old Claudia Karvan was wandering through Sydney’s Paddington Markets when she stumbled upon the stall for a fledgling Australian label, started by two sisters only a few years older than she was. ‘‘They were just cool...
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Holiday horror at chateau
The Sydney entrepreneur who was allegedly beaten over the head with a saucepan and burnt with boiling water by his Australian banker partner said he expected to die in the violent late-night attack at a luxury French hotel during a weeks-long European...
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Putting the bite on malaria
After decades of research and a stroke of luck, Australian researchers have developed a new vaccination method for a disease that has dogged humanity for millennia and continues to take at least 610,000 – and counting – lives each year. The scientists...
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Sydney housing chases the sun
Sydney’s east will take on most of the city’s new housing over the next 20 years, arresting the outward sprawl of development and locking in the west as an economic powerhouse, under a NSW government plan to accommodate an extra 1.3 million people by...
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Trouble in Tiger Town
The developer of Rozelle Village and the owners of Wests Tigers leagues club are on a collision course as doubts over the new club surface.
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‘I cannot pretend it’s not happening’
Survivors of Redeemer Baptist School have told a NSW parliamentary inquiry they were sexually, physically, emotionally and spiritually abused, urging the government to classify the school and its associated church as a system of group-based coercive...
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Still scarred by school’s secrets
There’s gravel from Redeemer Baptist School’s property burrowed deep inside Elizabeth Bradbury’s knee. The 62-year-old only has to touch the gnarled skin to be taken back to the 1970s and ’80s, when at 15, screaming for her mum during a planned visit,...
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‘I have two beautiful little miracles’
One child in 16 is now conceived via IVF in Australia as success rates creep up, but would-be parents face a high-stakes numbers game in which age, and the clinic they choose, can determine success. More than 50,000 women in Australia had IVF...
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‘Very shy’ to shining star
interim report into the 2018 arrangement next week in time for a joint meeting of state, territory and federal treasurers. All but West Australian Treasurer Rita Saffioti favour either dumping or dramatically changing the deal, which was only expected...
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‘All talk and no action’: Minns under fire over Bondi response
The Minns government has been accused of ‘‘all talk and no action’’ for failing to fully support a key recommendation from the coronial inquest into the Bondi Junction Westfield stabbing attack that would deliver crisis accommodation to those at most...
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Senior MP’S leak admission pours fuel on Lib crisis
Senior NSW Liberal MP Damien Tudehope has conceded that he leaked a confidential draft report from a parliamentary inquiry to a key witness who deliberately avoided giving evidence, in a stunning revelation that could threaten the party elder’s...
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ICAC hears Assaf ‘spent work time’ on Lib causes
NSW Liberal apparatchik Robert Assaf sent sham invoices in his wife’s name to a Reformers-linked company for ‘‘kickbacks’’ and did factional work during office hours at Catholic Schools NSW, including daily political updates to the organisation’s boss,...
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Wall divides beach home owners
manager at Catholic Schools NSW, the governing body for 600 diocesan schools across the state. His former colleague at Catholic Schools NSW, Dylan Whitelaw, revealed the extent of time spent on NSW Reformers’ work when he continued his evidence before...
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