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Student screen time capped to as little as 15 minutes in NSW as test results fall
11+ hour, 54+ min ago (458+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:46am School students will be limited to as little as 15 minutes of screen time per day in NSW classrooms as the Minns government seeks to arrest the alarming drop in Australia’s global reading and writing standards. The new policy, announced…...
On parenting, teachers should not have to carry the responsibility
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (568+ words) September 10, 2026 — 8:00pm Step up, and raise the childrenHear, hear, Jenna Price. Parents need to step up and actually raise the children they created. Feeding and clothing them is the least of it.Helen Boér, Balwyn North Embargo callsAll those in Australia…...
Classroom screen time quietly driving down Victorian student results
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (1014+ words) September 8, 2026 — 5:48pm More than a quarter of Victoria’s 15-year-olds lack the foundational maths skills needed for further education or work and one in five is falling short in reading as Australia records its worst results in both subjects since international testing…...
Inside Melbourne universities’ plans to future-proof degrees and jobs
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (1161+ words) Universities in Melbourne are launching start-ups, embracing industry on campus and positive uses of AI as their students integrate with businesses and the community. Melbourne’s biggest universities will launch dozens of start-ups each year in a bid to lift innovation…...
With the new year comes new hope
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (195+ words) September 6, 2026 — 5:30am The celebrated American poet Robert Frost put it well in his evocative poem: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveller, long I stood … I took the one less…...
This author interviewed 300 teenagers about their screen time. Here’s what she discovered
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (838+ words) September 6, 2026 — 5:00am Madonna King is a long-time journalist and author who has written a book, Screen Wise, on Australia’s obsession with glowing rectangles. Fitz: Madonna, the basic premise of your book is that – with just a few exceptions – screens are doing…...
A two-word email ended a marriage, but started a romance between former housemates
1+ week, 3+ day ago (515+ words) September 3, 2026 — 11:00am Jacqui Hunt, 60, former lead singer of ’90s band Single Gun Theory, first met fellow muso Brian Conolly, 62, when they were teenagers. Decades later, they’d reunite in a collaboration that would be more than musical. After a year, Brian left the…...
Choose a uni that helps you make an impact
1+ week, 3+ day ago (900+ words) Advertorial for La Trobe University September 3, 2026 — 9:55am Even while you’re focused on deciding what course you’ll study next year, plenty of people will already be asking you: “What do you want to do after uni?” It might be easy to answer…...
How a Brisbane author’s brain tumour inspired a children’s book
2+ week, 5+ day ago (939+ words) August 25, 2026 — 6:20pm Welcome to CityChats, where Brisbane Times meets our city’s most interesting characters on our most iconic form of transport. This week, children’s book author and illustrator Sophie Beer tells us about her unlikely corporate background, how her real-life experiences…...
Every morning, a grandmother wakes 11 children. Their parents are thousands of kilometres away
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1462+ words) Every morning, a grandmother wakes 11 children....