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Anzac Day store trading bans will extend to the entire day in New South Wales from 2025. — 2:00

NSW extends Anzac Day trading shutdown

Anzac Day store trading bans will extend to the entire day in New South Wales from 2025.

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Australia’s real wages have fallen by 4.8 per cent since 2020, according to the latest OECD report. — 1:35

Australia’s real wages fall 4.8 per cent

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Police are ramping up investigations after more than eight suburbs have been targeted in multiple alleged crime sprees by teenagers. — 1:13

Police investigating alleged crime spree across Brisbane suburbs

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A mammoth trial has begun for fourteen members of a Toowoomba religious group - charged over the death of an eight-year-old girl. — 2:34

Trial begins for group charged over eight-year-old’s death

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Greyhound

Letters

State-sanctioned cruelty to greyhounds needs to stop

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Healthcare

Thousands of potential stroke medicines have worked in animals but failed in clinical trials.

Research

Why aren’t there any good medical treatments for a stroke?

As more young people experience the affliction which strikes at least 100 Australians a day, research into better medicines is getting held back.

by Angus Dalton

The Victorian public hospital system is in crisis.

Opinion

Hospitals in crisis

Funding alone is not the magic bullet in fixing Victoria’s hospital crisis

No amount of funding will improve service delivery if we cannot find nurses to fill positions under current conditions and improve healthcare culture.

by John Wilson

Katherine Kalaitzidis lives with body dysmorphia disorder.

Mental health

A voice in Katherine’s head tells her she is ‘ugly’, but help for her common condition may be on the way

by Wendy Tuohy

Exposure to a PFAS called PFBA has been linked with more severe COVID-19.

Queensland Health

Health chief warns return to school will worsen current Qld spike in viruses

by Courtney Kruk

NEWS: Jessica Tily’s boys Ted (3) and Vince (1) recently recovered from a gastro illness as similar cases soar across the country. July 5th, 2024. Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald. composite with graph showing case increases

Illness

Gastro cases hit 20-year high as parasite spreads disease to toddlers

by Amber Schultz

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Education

New findings reveal the compounding impact of teacher burnout and shortages is having on school communities.

Education

‘We’re burning out’: WA teachers’ plea as student mental illness skyrockets

by Holly Thompson

Parents will be consulted on their views about merging Randwick Girls’ and Boys’ High.

Education

The best and worst areas in NSW for NAPLAN revealed

by Christopher Harris

Chelsea Primary has had success with a phonics-based reading system, which they have used since 2019. — 3:25

Education

2021: Learning to read using phonics

Janison will parter with Cambridge Assessments for the first online selective school and opportunity class tests in 2025.

Opinion

Selective schools

Why selective schools are missing the mark

by Millie Muroi

Students protest over the war in Gaza at the University of Melbourne in May.

Education

University of Melbourne facing investigation over tech surveillance of students

by Alex Crowe

Perth schools with the highest-paid parents revealed. St Hilda’s. MLC and Christ Church Grammar School were the top three.

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Education

The Perth private schools with the highest-earning parents revealed

by Holly Thompson

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Victoria

A massive factory fire continues to rage in Derrimut.

Fire

Exploding metal drums and toxic smoke burst from massive factory fire

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by Lachlan Abbott and Eliza Sum

Updated

Courts

Teen allegedly breached ‘harsh’ bail conditions over Burwood hit-run within 48 hours

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by Erin Pearson

Courts

Accused murderer of teacher appears in court as victim remembered

by Marta Pascual Juanola

Queensland

Fog in Brisbane on Wednesday morning. 10/07/2024. Pic by Cameron Atfield.

Brisbane News Live

As it happened: Brisbane on Wednesday, July 10

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by Marissa Calligeros

Traffic

Labor rules out Chermside connection for Gympie Road bypass tunnel

by Tony Moore

Updated

Courts

Trial begins for 14 members of religious group accused of killing girl

by Cloe Read

Western Australia

West Coast coach Adam Simpson might not be solely to blame for the Eagles’ woes as of late, but he may well be the first sacrificed to appease the footy gods.

Live

WA news live

As it happened: WA news on Wednesday, July 10

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by Heather McNeill

Opinion

Property prices

Can Australia rise to the challenge and deliver 1.2 million new homes?

by Alan Duncan

Extreme weather

WA coastal erosion and flooding now predictable seven days in advance

by Claire Ottaviano

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