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Readers discuss issues relating to education, including the teacher shortage and VCE assessment.

An email from several senior members of Temple Beth Israel says a culture of secrecy and loss of members means the St Kilda synagogue needs a “fresh start”.

Please, we need leniency in exceptional cases We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 29, 2021 — 12.02am Normal text size Credit:Illustration: Andrew Dyson To submit a letter to The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. LOCKDOWN Please, we need leniency in exceptional cases I support the decision to lockdown for a week. However, there should be a process for exceptional cases. My husband, who ...

Up to 250,000 more unemployed when JobKeeper ends within weeks We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Up to 250,000 workers could lose their jobs when the JobKeeper wage subsidy ends this month as insolvency data reveals just three companies have used the federal government’s new rules to help struggling employers restructure to avoid shutting down. The end of the $90 billion JobKeeper program on March 28 is expecte...

The boom in buy now pay later schemes has seen many consumers ditch their credit cards in 2020 and join this latest payment craze. Millions of Australians have shopped up a storm this year via their computers, tablets and smartphones and are preferring to pay off their goods in instalments instead of whacking the full amount on plastic. Latest figures from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission showed in the 2017-18 financial year there were 16.8 million buy now pay later (BNPL...