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Students who change schools do worse in NAPLAN
Alexandra Smith 1:10 AM Students who change schools several times do worse in NAPLAN than their peers and are more likely to drop out of school.
Social media attacks include threats to rape and kill
Natalie O'Brien 12:35 AM "I was sent rape and death threats, had my email hacked."
Drug resistant bacteria breakthrough
John Elder 11:38 PM Melbourne researchers have pioneered a new approach to killing bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotics. Scientists at Monash University and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have used a locally developed experimental cancer drug to prevent infections from spreading in the body.
Booze bracelets for drink-drivers?
Jill Stark 11:28 PM Abstinence orders backed up monitoring of offenders' drinking have slashed drink-driving and family violence abroad.
Australia could be the next Paris, terrorism expert warns
Natalie O'Brien 10:04 PM In the battle against IS it doesn't matter how much you are in for, whether it is in for a penny or in for a pound.
How IS lights up the brains of potential jihadi recruits
Natalie O'Brien 10:00 PM Determining what typical Aussie teenagers Abdullah Elmir and Jake Bilardi found so irresistible about IS could save others.
Where did all the expensive homes go?
Lucy Macken 8:38 PM Hoping to buy an ultra-prestige home in Sydney anytime soon? Better get in line.
In the name of the father - the burden of the good priest in a time of shame
John Elder 5:53 PM Pope Francis has talked about the Church as a field hospital for the wounded. It's a message with conflicting and complex resonance, not only in this time of reckoning in the paedophilia scandals – during which the clerical collar and lighted candle has become a staple of TV parody – but for an institution that has suffered through many a dark history.
Mackay cops deluge ahead of AFL match
Lisa Yallamas 3:56 PM Mackay's rain-sodden Harrup Park will host the pre-season AFL game between Brisbane Lions and St Kilda on Sunday - despite ex-cyclone Winston drenching the city and districts with 200-300mm over the past few days.
Resigning would be an admission of guilt: Pell
Marika Dobbin 4:53 AM Bolt's one-hour interview (broadcast live from Rome) is the first for Pell since he finished four days of testimnoy at the royal commission into child sex abuse.
'Pope Francis never received request to meet sex abuse victims'
Lloyd Jones 4:32 AM Child sex abuse survivors who flew to Rome to hear Cardinal George Pell give evidence to a royal commission say their request to meet the Pope was never received.
Stress-related absence from work on the rise
Anna Patty 3:11 AM Stress-related absence from work is on the rise, corporate psychologists have warned.
Drilling for history: the act of science in Antarctica
Adam Morton 12:15 AM Obtaining core ice samples that can help decode climate change is a herculean feat in inhospitable conditions, writes Adam Morton.
Craft beer boom means heady days for hop growers
Peter Barrett Thanks to the global rise of craft beers, Victorian hop growers are experiencing a boom of their own.
Do we really know how to be green?
Jenny Stewart There's more to being green than following the advice of the day.
Vatican critic has harsh words for Pell
Nick Miller A controversial figure at the centre of Rome's "Vatileaks 2.0" scandal claims Cardinal George Pell influenced and hurried the work of a Vatican reform commission.
Australian pressure killed off PNG plans to reintroduce death penalty
Bianca Hall Canberra's influence led Papua New Guinea to shelve a push to execute those guilty of serious crimes - especially against women.
The trouble with Snowden
Andrew Masterson 12:00 PM Step one: book guest speaker. Step two: pay guest speaker. How hard can it be?
Department spends $4.5m on redundancies
Henry Belot PM&C; paid more than $4.5 million for voluntary redundancies last year.
Did life get better for Australians last year?
Matt Wade Economic growth was strong in 2015, but what about another key measure?
Tassie's battle to keep lights on
Adam Morton The Apple Isle is using a fleet of diesel gennies and cloud seeding to try and make it rain, but will this state run out of power?
New 'piece of MH370' found by Blaine Gibson after WA advice
Aleisha Orr The man responsible for finding what could be the second piece of the doomed flight MH370 aircraft headed to Mozambique on the advice of West Australian academics.
Scots College: Principal suddenly reverses decision to resign
Eryk Bagshaw The principal of Sydney private school Scots College was going to resign in the wake of turmoil at the Bellevue Hill school but suddenly reneged on his decision on Thursday night.
From little things, big things grow
Tony Wright Paddy Dodson might have been just another scared kid on his first night at boarding school ... if he hadn't been black.
CSIRO cuts spark fierce international backlash
Ross Peake The mood among staff at CSIRO's Black Mountain laboratories will get much worse unless Malcolm Turnbull is prepared to reverse the proposed inexplicable cuts to flagship programs on climate change and water. Fairfax Media spoke to former heads of CSIRO and other long-serving and retired staff in Canberra to gauge the implications of the cuts.
Minister takes aim at APS's 'old boys network'
Noel Towell APS "Old boys" dominating appointments to government boards, according to Employment Minister Michaelia Cash.
Four days on we're still in the dark about what Pell really knew
Jane Lee ANALYSIS: Cardinal's only regret is that he had not been more curious, which is tempered by his belief that others prevented him from doing more.
Pell pledges to help those 'wounded by sex abuse'
Nick Miller and Melissa Cunningham Cardinal George Pell has pledged to help those "wounded by the scourge of sexual abuse", in the final act of his appearance at the child sex abuse Royal Commission.
George Pell: clergy abuse survivors want Vatican law to be rewritten
Melissa Cunningham Ballarat clergy sexual abuse survivors want Vatican law rewritten to protect future generations of children.
