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Hundreds of ATO bosses get 3 per cent pay rise
Noel Towell 3:02 PM Generous wage rise comes hours after deal for rank-and-file public servants rejected deal in a landslide.
Acquire Learning accused of misleading students
Sarah Danckert 2:45 PM Education company Acquire Learning & Careers has been accused of taking advantage of vulnerable students by the competition regulator.
Demetriou company Acquire Learning accused of unconscionable conduct
Michael Bachelard 2:35 PM Former AFL chief Andrew Demetriou's vocational education company Acquire Learning has been accused of unconscionable conduct, making false or misleading representations and breaching consumer law after selling government-funded courses to tens of thousands of job-seekers.
HSC Results 2015: NSW students get their ATARs
Eryk Bagshaw 2:17 PM Live: The wait is over for HSC students across the state as their final rank, the ATAR, is released
Adoption rates slump, Australians wait years to adopt overseas children
Benjamin Preiss 1:55 PM Adoption rates in Australia have hit a record low and prospective parents are waiting more than five years to adopt overseas children.
APS wage deal for 4400 falls short by 62 votes
Noel Towell 10:52 AM New wage offer falls short by just 62 votes
One school's stunning HSC result
Inga Ting 9:23 AM In the contest for overall rankings, one school rocketed up the chart - but it wasn't the only big improver.
Check your ATAR
9:12 AM While students will receive their university rank on Wednesday, most will not receive their first round offers, which do not come out until January.
Selective and private girls' schools dominate HSC
Inga Ting and Eryk Bagshaw 7:56 AM Selective and all-girls schools dominated the 2015 HSC, but one learning centre stood above the rest.
Top schools: all the VCE data on Victorian schools
Henrietta Cook, Timna Jacks and Craig Butt 12:00 AM Increasingly, parents select schools for their children based on VCE and NAPLAN data. Here, you can find Victorian schools, the programs they offer and data on their students' VCE achievements for 2015.
The school where being a nerd is cool
Alexandra Smith 10:42 PM At Menai High School this year's HSC students were encouraged to embrace their inner nerd. In fact, the more nerdy they were, the better.
Rudd's my candidate for UN chief: Nobel Prize winner
Daniel Flitton 10:15 PM Jose Ramos Horta - Nobel prize winner and global face of East Timor's long struggle for independence - is backing former prime minister Kevin Rudd to become the next chief of the United Nations.
HSC Results 2015: Top 20 HSC schools revealed
Inga Ting and Eryk Bagshaw 6:39 PM Selective schools and high-fee-paying, all-girls schools have dominated the 2015 HSC results.
Culture shock as Canberra's institutions take Hollywood hit
Noel Towell, Clare Colley and Alexandra Back 5:23 PM Cash stripped from Canberra's cultural attractions will go to pay for Hollywood blockbusters.
Priest accused of lying to Royal Commission to 'save' Cardinal George Pell
Jane Lee 5:05 PM Former housemate has been accused of fabricating evidence about accusations that cardinal tried to bribe a survivor to keep quiet.
Whooping cough outbreak prompts rush on vaccines
Harriet Alexander 4:16 PM A shortage of stock means only two types of patients will be given access to vaccines.
HSC Results 2015: The wait is over for 70,000 NSW High School students
Eryk Bagshaw 4:02 PM HSC Results 2015: The wait is over for 70,000 NSW High School students
'We have to stop - it is just too dangerous'
Harriet Alexander 11:05 PM Exhausted helicopter paramedics are working long shifts or refusing to fly, fully aware of what that means for patients.
Victorian Coroner blames missile for blowing MH17 out of the sky
Liam Mannix Coroner Ian West agrees with Dutch inquest into air tragedy, assures relatives that Australians' bodies were treated with dignity.
Patients to pay up to $62 more for medical tests
Marika Dobbin The Australian Diagnostic Imaging Association warns the most ill people will be hit hard by the Turnbull government's $650 million healthcare cut.
Only in year 10 but already top of the state
Samuel Roberts Parunithan Ranganathan moved to Australia less than three years ago but is already top of the state.
The Parliament House parking lottery
Phillip Thomson Just how hard is it to get a park at Parliament House? Very.
Girl power reigns supreme in HSC
Alexandra Smith Girls have topped the state in agriculture, primary industries and automotive studies as well as English and history.
Pay offer as good as it gets: Cash
Noel Towell Four thousand public servants at Employment and Environment Departments vote no.
Just some of the dumb things people said and did in 2015
Tom Cowie What a dumb year it has been. Has it been the dumbest ever? There's plenty to suggest that's the case. Let's take a look at some of the evidence for the prosecution.
Centrelink apologises for web welfare shutdown
Noel Towell Centrelink clients around Australia are furious over missing payments.
High achievers: 40-plus VCE students
These are Victoria's top students; those who received 40-plus study scores in VCE subjects in 2015. Some received only one 40-plus score in their favourite subject; others received four or five, accumulating a perfect ATAR in the process. Search on schools or students.
