Reporter and social media assistant at The Sydney Morning Herald
What began as a simple celebration of food and wine on Bastille Day has turned into an important "expression of unity" for Sydney's French community amid ongoing political turmoil in France and Europe.
An elderly woman who was hit by a van while crossing the road in Sydney's north has suffered serious head injuries and is in a critical condition.
A man and woman who were missing in the Blue Mountains overnight have been found.
A Bondi man who allegedly stole $1.8 million has been arrested and charged with 31 fraud offences.
Police are looking for the people responsible for posters promoting the lynching and deportation of prominent politicians and media personalities that have appeared in Sydney's inner west.
Students in public schools are missing out on important learning opportunities because of their parents' inability to pay, with one teacher saying parental attitudes are also to blame.
Students from three Sydney high schools will be able to get into university without having to sit HSC exams or get an ATAR under special agreements with a growing number of universities around Australia.
The University of Sydney's vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence says the university has no plans to take over the residential colleges, following claims by a St Paul's alumnus that Dr Spence's recent criticism of the scandal-plagued institution is part of a bid "to get control of the colleges".
Students will be able to see minimum and maximum ATARs for all university course offers from next month and the misleading term ATAR "cut-off" will be phased out, under a new national admissions transparency plan .
There would need to be "a seismic change in the way we deliver education" to lower university dropout rates by focusing more on career advice in schools, the head of the career industry's peak body says.
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