'Always complex': Immigration's ruling on doctor's daughter

A teenage girl with autism facing deportation after eight years living in Australia has been granted permanent residency, following an eleventh-hour intervention by the Assistant Immigration Minister.

'Appalling and heartless': Sydney doctor forced to leave country because of disabled daughter

A 16-year-old girl with autism who has been living in Australia for eight years could be deported within weeks because she failed immigration medical assessments and the Assistant Immigration Minister has refused to intervene.

How the world would look if you were in charge

Housing wouldn't define rich and poor and same-sex marriage and voluntary euthanasia would be legal.

What your spending habits say about your politics

Your everyday behaviour betrays a surprising amount about your political views, new research from the Political Personas Project shows.

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. 

Live HSC results 2016: 77,000 NSW High School students receive their marks

Find out how your friends, children and students did here, as we countdown to the top schools in the state.