With university semester underway, thousands of Australian students are scrambling to find accommodation as universities report critical housing shortages. The crisis threatens to undermine access to higher education, particularly for regional and first-year students.
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A north shore Sydney private school is monitoring students' bathroom visits via CCTV and sending automated texts to parents — sparking debate over privacy, dignity, and where school oversight ends.
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Asbestos found in soil at Albert Park has added $395 million to the cost of Victoria's Formula 1 pit building redevelopment, taking the total bill past $745 million.
Grace Okonkwo A year into federal caps on international student numbers, Australian universities are cutting research support and narrowing course offerings as billions in fee revenue disappear.
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GOP Senator Thom Tillis has demanded Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's resignation and threatened to bring Senate business to a halt, exposing rare Republican dissent over DHS leadership.
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Up to 180 girls and staff are dead after a primary school in Minab, Iran was struck during US-Israeli Operation Epic Fury. The UN calls it a grave violation of humanitarian law.
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Prime Minister Albanese has held emergency talks with UAE leadership as 115,000 Australians remain stranded across the Middle East following the closure of regional airspace.
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A University of Missouri team has made DNA storage rewritable for the first time, bringing molecular-scale data archiving closer to practical reality.
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One in three Australian students fails to reach numeracy proficiency, and the SMH Schools Summit heard that fixing it means rethinking how maths is taught from the very first year of school.
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NSW is rolling out gifted and high-potential education programmes to all public schools in 2026, backed by $100m in funding and a push for greater equity.
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Apple's iPhone satellite features are live in Australia, but most users don't know how to use them. Here's what you need before you head bush.
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Over 100 children were killed when an all-girls primary school in Minab, Iran, was struck during a joint US-Israeli military operation, as the broader conflict claims hundreds of lives.
Grace Okonkwo A new Oxford study in Nature Geoscience finds the Moon's strong magnetic field lasted at most 5,000 years, not the half-billion years previously assumed.
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A private school lease arrangement at a NSW community sports facility has angered locals who say public access has been quietly eroded.
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At Melbourne's Bakehouse Studios, 64 teenagers are rehearsing, songwriting, and connecting face-to-face. Not one of them is looking at a phone.
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Israel and the United States have carried out strikes on Iran, confirmed by two US officials and Israel's defence minister.
Grace Okonkwo The US Defense Secretary has designated AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk, escalating a standoff that began with a presidential ban on its products.
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A teenage boy has died after being struck by two cars while crossing Warnbro Sound Avenue following his morning bus trip to school.
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A 13-year-old Perth student has died after being hit by two cars while alighting from a school bus, prompting urgent questions about road safety near bus stops.
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