The Conversation’s Books & Ideas team, seeking to right a wrong (and just very curious), asked 50 Australian literary experts to each share their favourite Australian books of this century.

Honiara is estimated to be littered with thousands of bombs and shells left behind on the battlefield after the six-month Battle of Guadalcanal ended in 1943.

One female teacher who has been in the profession for 14 years told us how a Year 11 boy backed her into a corner of the staff room.

Would Uber Eats be liable for a “workplace accident” that injured one of its delivery riders?

Results are now being reported against four new proficiency standards: “exceeding”, “strong”, “developing” and “needs additional support”

The history of science on this continent is extraordinary, yet we often fail to recognise the sophisticated knowledges held by our First Nations peoples.

That doesn’t mean the ASX does – or has done – anything wrong. But this has been a known potential conflict of interest since the 1990s.

By mid-2024, there were already more cases in the country than all of 2023 – more than 15,600 cases and 537 deaths.

The most interesting development from this year’s FEMM, though, was the endorsement by the new Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Baron Waqa of the ambition to free up the movement of people within the region.

In 2024 about one in three school students were into the bottom two proficiency bands, with the remaining two thirds were in the top two.