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Why do Indigenous students need bilingual teaching at school?

About 68% of Indigenous people aged 20–24 years had attained Year 12 or equivalent as of 2021, with a target of 96% by 2031.

20% of young people who forwarded nudes say they had permission – but only 8% gave it!

The figures are slightly higher among lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals.

What makes students feel like they belong at university?

The pandemic and the move to more online teaching certainly had an impact on belonging.

Australia should offer our ‘Pacific family’ access rather than simply reacting to China

July has already seen Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare visit China, French President Emmanuel Macron visit Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visit Tonga (Australia and New Zealand).

Distorting, misrepresenting and manipulating history through narratives

The readers should know the historical background and ideology of the historian before looking into their writings to understand the motives, dislikes, ambitions or passion of their historical writings.

We need more than a definition change to fix Australia’s culture of permanent ‘casual’ work

Almost 60% of “casuals” had been in the job for more than a year. About 80% expected to still be there in a year’s time.

Let’s take a Free Walking Tour of Melbourne

We'd walked in Tallinn, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Rotterdam with Free Walking Tour groups, but never in Melbourne!

myTax is fast and free – so why do 2 in 3 Australians still pay to lodge a tax return?

There was an “e-Tax” filing option before the 2015-16 tax year, but this was quite complicated and barely better than filling out a form online.

Australians are living and working longer – but not necessarily healthier

To achieve longer working lives, workplaces will need to become more supportive of mature-age workers, including accommodating long-term health conditions.

Inflation has slipped below 6%, but is it enough to stop Reserve Bank from raising interest rates?

The prices of new dwellings grew more slowly as demand eased and problems with the supply of materials improved

Must-read

Fiji urged to block online pornography as authorities link explicit content to child sexual abuse

The proposal was raised during a recent community consultation in Nasoso, Nadi, where residents and police argued that stronger internet restrictions could help protect vulnerable children from sexual abuse within their own homes.

Premier Ben Carroll promises ‘exhaustive’ royal commission into corruption and violence across Victoria

He promised terms of reference broad enough to examine conduct across the entire construction system rather than focusing only on the Construction

Darwin woman charged after alleged misuse of government role to access millions in NDIS funds

Investigators allege the business received more than $28 million in National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) funding since 2019, with around $18 million of those claims identified as potentially suspicious.
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