How your income reflects your world view

It's the difference between being stuck or being able to escape when society and politicians have let you down.

Revealed: the schools, electorates and political party that get the most Gonski money

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Barnaby Joyce's electorate is among the biggest beneficiaries of additional "Gonski" funding and among the likely biggest losers under the Coalition's school funding plan, a Herald analysis can reveal. 

When will all my friends be married (and then divorced)?

It happens around the age of 30 to almost half of Australians. That moment when, for the first time in their lives, the unmarried are no longer the majority of people their age.

The schools punching above their weight in the HSC

In a country town at the edge of the Warrumbungles in NSW's north west, a tiny high school is punching well above its weight in the HSC. 

The school that has topped the HSC 21 years in a row

Selective school James Ruse Agricultural High School has taken out the first spot in the Higher School Certificate for the 21st consecutive year.

How much money your doctor gets from big pharma

How much money did your doctor get from big pharma?

'It was a bit of a shock': Cost of putting a child through uni

Louisa Wilson's parents are up for five figures - and that's without paying her HECS.

When breathing the air causes more harm than smoking

Air pollution has for the first time become one of the top contributors to strokes worldwide, according to the most detailed study of global risk factors for strokes ever conducted.

Why it's special to be 37: 'I still think of myself as ... a little bit irresponsible'

In two weeks, Kobie Keenan will cross a key demographic marker, joining half the population on the other side.