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School is meant to be about expanding young minds, but ceiling safety issues in WA mean some schools are more likely to compress them.

As the right wing faction of the LNP insists that children’s minds are being damaged by sex education, a new study says teens want more information.

Federal education minister Simon Birmingham says mid-level maths should be made a pre-requisite for students looking to enrol in science, engineering or commerce degrees.

The UK Government is imposing a tax on sugary drinks to help tackle obesity, leaving many to wonder if the same thing would work in Australia.

The administrators of a collapsed training company have raised allegations of a massive rort.

Infrastructure Australia has released its 15-year Australian Infrastructure Plan, and it has already been used to argue for more local government involvement.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk wants Queensland’s Labor Party to apologise, after the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) decided not to investigate the proposed sale of land to an LNP donor.

Staff at the Department of Human Services have been warned they will not get a better offer than the one they rejected last month.

The Victorian Government will not merge the state’s two fire services, despite strong recommendations to do so.

The WA Parliament has ratified big changes to the structure of Healthway, the scandal-ridden WA Government health promotion agency.

A new report has highlighted the “bargaining fatigue” in APS negotiations.

A three-year dispute between unions and Essential Water in New South Wales is ending, after workers indicated they would accept a new wage deal.

Illegal fishing in the Pacific Ocean costs over $600 million a year and is perpetrated largely by legal fishing vessels, a report has found.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the environment is killing millions of people every year.

Australia is preparing to take the lead on an energy source that is perfect for a nation girt by sea.

A recent survey has found that negative attitudes among Australian voters towards asylum seekers are driven by religious bigotry more than by racism or economic anxieties.

Australian experts have watched the watchers.

Experts have gathered data on the toll that heavy drinkers take on society.

A single, enormous study has found hundreds of genes which cause five common, hard-to-treat and debilitating inflammatory diseases.

Caltex is using energy from the Sun to better supply fossil fuels in outback areas.