Albanese and Dutton attend Anzac Day dawn services.

Anzac Day 2025 as it happened:PM says Welcome to Country booing a ‘disgrace,low cowardice’;Dutton plays two-up in Townsville

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Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton

Federal election 2025 as it happened:Rinehart calls for massive defence spending boost at Anzac service;Kooyong forum crashed by far-right

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Teacher Lidia Cummins with grade 1 students at Bentleigh West Primary,where maths is taught in an explicit,systematic way. The school’s NAPLAN results are among the best in the state.

‘Unproven’ teaching methods have failed primary students and teachers

Students’ maths abilities have been compromised over decades,with “faddish,unproven” teaching methods failing to get results. But these schools have found the secret to success.

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Kishwar Chowdhury,who is developing cooking classes for Caulfield Grammar students,with her son Mikayle.

Why some school students are learning 60 hours a week

Some schools are offering organised activities 12 hours a day,as parents juggle working and commuting with children’s needs.

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Preps eat pizza as a rewarded for coming to school every day of the term as part of Wyndham Park Primary’s effort to lift attendance rates.

Yo-yos,fidget spinners,pizza:Boosting school attendance one slice at a time

This school has worked out how to get students to turn up every day of term. And,as cheesy as it sounds,the answer was right under their noses.

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Old Lady’s Primary School parents and students with canteen lunches.

Ordered on an app,packed in a brown paper bag:A school’s secret to a $6 canteen lunch

This rare parent-run canteen is so old-school that students get something with their lunch that money can’t buy:a note from their mum.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a Sydney press conference on Friday.

As it happened:Politicians downplay Trump’s AUKUS flub;Star goes into trading halt

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New data reveals funding disparity between government schools in different states.

Private schools lobby vows federal election fight over ‘class-war rhetoric’

Seventeen seats have been designated “ground zero” in a campaign to pressure major parties to shore up billions of dollars in public funding.

  • Bridie Smith
Shelford girls celebrate the end of VCE in 2919. From the end of this year,their school will cease to exist.

One of Melbourne’s biggest private schools is about to get bigger

The private school giant will add a second junior campus to its portfolio after a high-profile merger with a struggling girls’ school.

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Rowing can open doors for Melbourne Grammar students to study and row at prestigious universities,including Harvard in the US.

‘Training at insane levels’:Inside the brutal,elite world of private school rowing

The death of a year 12 Melbourne Grammar student rower this week has raised questions about the intensity of training demands at some prestigious private schools.

  • Alex Crowe andBridie Smith