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1 week ago | 
smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll |Nigel Gladstone
By Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone June 15, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The number of students caught cheating in the HSC has doubled in the past five years, driven by a spike in breaches detected in take-home assessments and plagiarism offences.
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Nigel Gladstone |Tess Ikonomou |Kat Wong |Andrew Brown
Key posts1 of 3 2.02pmDefection leaves Greens facing their “most serious test”By Tess Ikonomou, Kat Wong and Andrew BrownThe Greens are facing their “most serious test” as a party following the defection of a senator to Labor after a poor federal election result. West Australian senator Dorinda Cox is quitting the minor party to sit with Labor in the upper house after approaching Anthony Albanese about making the switch.
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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Nigel Gladstone |Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Milan: Sicily’s Mount Etna has put on a fiery show, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometres into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population. The level of alert due to the volcanic activity was raised at the Catania airport, but no immediate interruptions have been reported. An official update on Monday (Tuesday AEST) declared the ash cloud emission had ended by the afternoon.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Emily Kowal |Nigel Gladstone |Lucy Carroll
By Emily Kowal, Nigel Gladstone and Lucy Carroll May 25, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cost of living, climate change and cybersecurity might be major challenges of our time, but the HSC courses addressing them are the ones mostly likely to be dropped when students start year 12.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll |Nigel Gladstone
By Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone May 18, 2025 — 7.15pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of Sydney’s highest-performing north shore public schools has topped 2000 students for the first time, breaching its enrolment cap less than two years after undergoing a multi-million dollar campus overhaul.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Lucy Carroll |Nigel Gladstone
In the Northern Beaches, eastern suburbs, Inner West and north shore, about 15,000 fewer students attend public schools compared with five years ago. However, in the city’s booming north and south-west outskirts new schools built a few years ago are full or overcrowded. In the north-west, which recorded the fastest student population growth last year, Riverbank Public is 1000 students over its cap.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Nigel Gladstone
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A man who allegedly stabbed one man and assaulted another as he was being transported from Villawood detention centre to Sydney Airport has been arrested. Police have also charged a woman with knowingly harbouring, maintaining or employing an escaped inmate.
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2 months ago | 
watoday.com.au | Nigel Gladstone
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2 months ago | 
smh.com.au | Nigel Gladstone
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. BreastScreen NSW services will begin reporting breast density later this month, as evidence grows that this increases cancer risk. Breast density – the ratio of fibroglandular (dense) tissue to fatty tissue – is reported in some jurisdictions, including Western Australia and South Australia. Victorian BreastScreen services have recently started reporting the measure.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Matt Wade |Nigel Gladstone
By Matt Wade and Nigel Gladstone March 11, 2025 — 11.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. North-western Sydney has emerged as one of Australia’s most prosperous regions with new data showing five of the nation’s 10 most advantaged suburbs are located in that area.
