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Three men have been jailed for the “senseless” killing of a stranger in front of a primary school in broad daylight. Nathan Timoteo, 24, Josaia Bolalailai, 24, and Jonathan Fuatavai, 21, committed a “violent, cowardly, senseless and despicable” act when they killed a ...

Former rugby league player and Sydney teacher Chris Dawson will face a murder trial over the disappearance of his wife Lynette later this year after a failed legal bid on Friday. Mr Dawson, 72, has pleaded not guilty to murder after Lynette ...

Attempted suicide rates among Victorian teenagers have skyrocketed by 184 per cent in the past six months. New data from Kids Helpline revealed the shocking statistic after Victoria was plunged into its fourth Covid-19 lockdown. Teenagers aged 13-18 were most ...

A Sydney school has been offered antibiotics as a preventive measure following an outbreak of meningococcal disease late last month. NSW Health issued a public health alert about two weeks ago after two cases of meningococcal were recorded in Sydney’s northern beaches ...

A plan for age verification on online porn sites is no “silver bullet” and may even expose young people to child pornography on the dark web, Australians have been warned. The federal government has committed “in principle” to implementing age ...

Health authorities have revealed three Melbourne schools are on high virus alert as the state’s Covid-19 outbreak worsens. Department of Health testing commander Jeroen Weimar said health authorities were working with three schools: Willmott Park Primary School, Mercy College and Methodist Ladies’ ...

A primary school student in western Sydney has been suspended after being found with a knife in her bag, the NSW Department of Education has confirmed. The incident occurred at Kingswood South Public School, near Penrith, last week. The Department of Education ...

A family is devastated after a little boy drowned while on school camp in southwest Victoria last week. Cooper Onyett died at the Belfast Aquatics pool in Port Fairy on Friday at his first overnight school camp. A GoFundMe page set up after the eight-year-old’s death ...

Greta Thunberg tweeted her support for Australian schoolchildren who ditched class to rally against the nation’s climate policies. There was a sense of anger and defiance among the thousands of school kids who rallied in the rain outside Sydney’s Town Hall ...

A casual schoolteacher has been charged after allegedly sexually touching a student in Sydney’s southwest last year. Child abuse detectives launched an investigation in September after receiving reports an 11-year-old female student had been allegedly sexually touched by a male teacher while on ...