The plan to start testing year 1 students on reading, maths
All year one students would undergo a national literacy and numeracy test, under a federal government plan to improve the detection of learning difficulties.
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Judith Ireland
Judith Ireland is a special writer, weekends, for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
The great university funding fight
Sydney's Matt Kearns is one of more than one million university students in Australia. The 23-year-old has 10 contact hours a week for his arts/law degree at the University of New South Wales, which he fits in around 20 hours of hospitality work and an unpaid legal internship at a not-for-profit organisation.Â
'It's very serious': Australia's farmers pensive after a long, dry winter
"The pressure's on at the moment, we'd really like to see some rain in the next few weeks."
A plague on both your houses: Parliament gets a new fence
Parliament House is getting a new fence. Not that you'd know about it.
People power: how households can help the energy crisis
As politicians argue about what do to do about our energy crisis, people are quietly making their own difference.
Same-sex marriage postal survey: what happens now?
The High Court has knocked back two challenges to the Coalition's postal vote on same-sex marriage. So what happens now?
Crackdowns are for ordinary Australians not for pollies
As your regular, every day, garden-variety human is being forced to hop through more and more hoops to successfully interact with the government, standards appear to be as relaxed as ever for MPs.
Father's Day means twice as much ahead of same-sex vote
"It's just a reminder for us to stop and celebrate our family."
Statue vandalism: more than a black and white issue
Sometimes I wonder whether outrage gets lost on the way.
'Gold medallist in mother guilt': Butler's Labor of Love
Labor MP Terri Butler says it's "hard to overstate" the impact a full-time political career has on families.
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