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There is still strong resentment between parts of the Western Australian education sector and the State Government, with 15,000 staff taking to the streets in strike action on Thursday.

Foreign workers will be slugged thousands of dollars for public education in Western Australia, for services that are free to everyone else.

A study has shown the long path ahead to delivering the best education services to indigenous communities.

A new law is being considered in New South Wales which could change the state of reproductive rights based largely on outcry from a recent event.

Hopscotch could become a strictly underground pursuit under amended graffiti laws in New South Wales.

Amid legal challenges on several sites the Tasmanian government has approved a new coal mine for the state, giving the go-ahead to a $50 million project in the Fingal Valley

Workers in the public sector may be feeling a distinct rumble of tough times ahead, with the sacking of three top-tier officials as one of the first acts of a cost-cutting Federal Government.

There may be little joy for Holden workers this Christmas, if the South Australian Premier’s predictions are correct.

Tony Abbott has placed himself in charge of women’s issues in Australia, nominating one of the handful of women in his cabinet as ‘Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women.’

Election Day has been called for one of the country’s most internationally well-known councils, with a colourful list of turnouts expected to nominate for Mayor of Noosa.

Community members in Far North Queensland are waiting to see what fate will be bestowed on them by the Queensland Government, with the state’s Deputy Premier saying he will all but disregard environmental authorities in favour of regional development.

Australian advocates for regional governments have taken stock of the state of Port Hedland in Western Australia, looking to see what the community which provides so much resource wealth needs in return.

There will be some big jobs for removalists in Canberra after Tony Abbott’s consolidation of the federal cabinet – including his decision to cut the Local Government ministry and bury the portfolio in the Department of Infrastructure.

Residents of a small town in Victoria have travelled to the United States to tell global food giant McDonald’s where they can stick their reconstituted ‘chicken’ nuggets.

UPDATE: Back to the drawing board 

A disturbing new claim says that humans are now inherently polluted. Findings have shown a myriad of man-made chemicals even in unborn babies.

A total funding pool of nearly half a million dollars has been put up for investigator-driven research in Australia.

The structure of a new material created at the University of Sydney manages to mimic the petals of a rose on a nano-scale – capturing beads of water and other liquids across its skin.

The energy of the future could come from the sewerage of today, with the development of a new type of battery which draws power from dissolved organic matter.

In the same week that international scientists publish clearer evidence of humanity’s influence on climate change, the Australian government is reducing its focus on pollution, the environment and science itself.