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Legislation introduced to NSW Parliament by One Nation’s Mark Latham would be “knocked out of operation” by the federal constitution if it was to pass, an expert says. Associate Professor Luke Beck, a constitutional law scholar based at Monash University, ...

Images of a so-called meteorite crash landing on the grounds of a Queensland school have gone viral. The Australia crash investigation unit Facebook page shared the photos with the hashtag #meteorite on Monday morning. The post caused such a stir it was ...

A new Holocaust museum will be established in Canberra to educate Australians about the mass murder of six million Jewish people. The federal government will provide $750,000 towards the new memorial to help students, teachers and the wider community learn about ...

The scourge of coronavirus has placed an enormous strain on our educators and our education system. As a nation, we should have celebrated harder that teachers in all sectors were able to entirely re-imagine the learning experience for every single ...

Queensland’s education minister has refused to reveal who the "mystery MP" embroiled in a corruption investigation alongside former deputy premier Jackie Trad was during a fiery hearing on Wednesday morning. Grace Grace was grilled about the Crime and Corruption Commission ...

The final part in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Ineffective teaching practices that increase cognitive load This method contrasts with ineffective teaching practices, which tend to increase ...

I looked through the window of one of my Year 3 classrooms at my school to see Brayden. He was crying, frozen in a combination of anxiety and pure fear. It’s not what any principal wishes to see in their learning ...

Part 2 in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Orthographic-integration In terms of developing skilled and efficient handwriting automaticity, and correlated creative narrative content, research undertaken by Suzanne ...

Australian children are reporting self-harm as early as grade 6, a new study shows. Researchers assessed more than 1200 children living in Melbourne each year from age 8-9 years to 11-12 years. Twenty-eight of the 1059 students in the study ...

Write, erase; write, erase; write, erase. Practise, practise, practise, achieve. Repeat. Here we have the universal imperative actions of gross and fine motor skills and the power of sequence learning, which leads to robust handwriting skill efficiencies developing, with associated ...