Australia's youngest senator wants 16-year-olds to do something they've never done before: vote. "For far too long, politics has failed to properly represent young people or the issues they care about," Jordon Steele-John, a 23-year-old West Australian Greens representative, told parliament ...

Referencing neither sit-ups, nor cornflakes, Kristin Fontichiaro advised a group of Victorian librarians to teach students to get crunchy. She was, of course, alluding to data. In Melbourne for a School Library Association of Victoria conference, Fontichiaro, a clinical assistant professor at the University of ...

The news that Simon Birmingham has been retained as the minister for education and training has been met with enthusiasm by leading commentators. Meanwhile, Birmingham's opposite number for Labor, Kim Carr, looks set to be dumped in favour of MP Linda Burney ...

After 30 years as a union official, Mary Bluett, the Australian Education Union Victorian branch president, has announced she will not run be running in the next ballot. First revealed in a letter to members, Bluett confirmed that she and ...