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“Every year, thousands of young people experience the dramas and challenges of the HSC high-stakes testing regime”. Not this young man of my acquaintance; he’s leaving school in year 9 to pursue carpentry and building.

All students who sat the exams should be acknowledged and deserve our praise for having strived, persevered and worked hard to do their best, many under difficult circumstances.

Proposals to impose new planning controls within an arbitrary 400 metres of 31 train stations, just shows the poverty of thinking in NSW urban planning.

Should our governments be insisting on a future national redundancy network that any provider could help build and then call on in times of crisis, like yesterday with Optus?

Former PM Tony Abbott thinks that his divisive views on climate change “need to be repeated a little more”.

The polices of the Howard government have led to today’s inequity in education.

While many owners are responsible for their cats, others have a flawed logic and think their cuddly bundle of joy would never threaten native wildlife.

Anyone considering a career in the armed forces should learn an old school motto, Honor non Honores - seek honour above rewards.

How could the most avid republican not be moved by what the British know how do to so well

Are we prepared to act as a mature and sophisticated democracy and give our Indigenous people the Constitutional recognition they deserve?