Nigel Gladstone

4 days 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.

5 days 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.