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Some Sydney coaching colleges are giving cash prizes for HSC students that achieve a state ranking.
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Coaching colleges target selective students and ‘undermine’ HSC

Up to 95 per cent of students at some of the state’s best selective schools are being privately coached, getting a jump on their peers.

  • by Lucy Carroll
Parkerville Tavern WA.
Restaurants

Popular Perth pub forced to start charging for costly no-shows

  • by Sarah Brookes
Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Paul Guerra, pictured in 2020.
Energy prices

Spiralling energy bills the ‘biggest concern’ for Victorian small businesses

  • by Rachel Eddie
The bank of mum and dad is helping drive the gulf between “the haves and the have-nots” in the property market.
WA residential property

The Perth suburbs with the smallest vacant blocks

  • by Holly Thompson
Calvin Seibert photographs his work in the late afternoon, when longer shadows make for a more dramatic effect.
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What’s the art (and science) of making a beautiful sandcastle?

  • by Angus Holland

Healthcare

I was about to get married. Then a distraught source rang with bad news.
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I was about to get married. Then my phone exploded with calls from one person

He called four times in four minutes. It must be important, I thought – but I’d sworn to myself I wouldn’t answer my phone. Not today, of all days.

  • by Nick McKenzie
A letter signed by 120 researchers warns about the dangers of desexed language in the medical field.
Gender

Don’t desex the language: Doctors warn of danger over gender-inclusive terms

Medical language is being “desexed” to accommodate transgender and gender diverse people – but doctors say it can confuse health data and lead to serious clinical errors.

  • by Michael Bachelard
Courtney Wheeler and Andreas Petinis, with baby Frankie, one of the last to be born at the Royal Women’s Hospital in 2023.
New Year

Baby Frankie brings joy early as his parents wish for peace in the new year

  • by Wendy Tuohy
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne emergency department nurse unit manager Sue Cowling and the deputy director of emergency medicine Dr Brendan Morrison.
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Hospitals

Why Victorians are more likely to land in emergency this week

  • by Aisha Dow
Tram Nguyen, the co-head of the Royal Children’s Hospital gender clinic, in 2018.
Gender

Easy as visiting the GP: Doctors push for accessible hormone treatment as children’s waitlist swells

  • by Michael Bachelard
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