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The results are in, and the Labor government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been returned to power. Well, not quite. But that's what would happen if Australian teenagers were to decide the outcome of the 2010 federal election, ...

Children are being encouraged to explore a “rainbow” of fruit and vegetables in a bid to improve the diet of young Australian. Avocado growers on Tuesday launched a national resources kit for early childhood educators to encourage better eating among ...

Australian Greens leader Bob Brown wants Labor's original proposal for a 40 per cent resource super profits tax revived so the extra revenue can fund $2 billion in public-school programs. "The Greens support the mining super profits tax as originally ...

Teachers, technology and trade training have been added recently to the education policies of the federal Opposition. Opposition leader Tony Abbott, campaigning in Victoria last Friday, said a coalition government would establish a $200 million reward fund to recognise and ...

The Labor party has said it wants financial literacy material included in the national maths curriculum and rolled out to schools in 2011. There will be a strong focus on practical financial skills including lessons about mobile phone plans and ...

Groundhog Day. Policy by press release. Fiddling round the edges. The disappointment among educators at the policies put forward in this election is palpable. Some individual policies, such as Labor’s autonomy for school leaders and the Liberal’s plan for children ...

It’s back to the future for the island state. The Tasmania Tomorrow reforms have unravelled, with two of the three post-Year 10 educational authorities to be brought back under the ambit of the state education department. The controversial reforms – ...

For principal Gerri Walker, working with South Australia’s marginalised youth is about rebuilding their frayed connections to society. Students enrolled in the centre’s two main campuses, Magill and Cavan, and in its various community outreach programs are largely disconnected from ...

Traditionally the family dog took the blame for missing homework. Now it’s more likely to be a worm’s fault. The increasing use of computers in school and at home means that there is a mounting risk that not only will ...

Do you ever reflect on the experience of nature you had as a child? I often do. Fortunately for me, my experience of outdoors as a child involved camping, walking for miles along beaches, fishing, many idyllic sunsets, growing vegetables, ...