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Premier Steven Miles says experts advise all classrooms at Rochedale state school ‘are safe for staff and students to return’Parents are terrified their children are still being exposed to asbestos at a primary school, alleging a patch-up job has not made the classrooms safe.They fear children may have been exposed to asbestos for months or even years at a Queensland school. Continue reading...

Education minister says issue is ‘complex’ as federal government agrees or supports in principle just two of 14 proposals Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has come under fire for refusing to implement recommendations to front a national action plan or offer peer support funding to reverse...

Admission of girls to the private school will proceed despite almost 800 former students voting out alumni union president Alexander PagonisFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe president of Newington college’s alumni union has been voted out of his position amid the continuing fracas over the school’s decision to admit...

Law Reform Commission says schools shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate against staff and students on basis of sexuality, gender identity or relationship statusGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBlanket exemptions allowing religious schools to discriminate against staff and students on the basis of sexuality and gender identity should be repealed, a key report to the federal government has...

The university held the lavish event at the NGV for Margaret Gardner, now the governor of VictoriaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastUniversity executives who spent more than $127,000 on a lavish sendoff for a departing vice-chancellor have been labelled out of touch.Monash University threw the flashy party at the...

This blog is now closedEducation minister hints at relief on student Hecs debt and university course fee changesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastReport says HECS needs to be ‘simpler and fairer’: ClareClare says the report includes recommendations about student allowances and proposals around indexation and how to reduce HECS payments He says it makes clear that “HECS...

Positive tests recorded at schools in Marsden Park and Orchard Hills takes total number of sites to have tested positive to 34 since early JanuaryFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThousands of New South Wales students will be forced into remote learning for a week after asbestos was found at...

Federal and WA state governments’ public school funding deal dismissed as ‘not good enough’ by Australian Education UnionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastEducation experts say a “landmark” deal to fully fund Western Australia’s public schools by 2026 is “not good enough” and still lets the state government “off the...

Six states and territories co-write letter calling for waving of Hecs debt for teachers, more supported university places and more scholarships for studentsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastState and territory education ministers have joined forces to demand the commonwealth implement a suite of major reforms to fix the nation’s teacher shortages, after all jurisdictions except WA rejected...