Rising variety of public faculty college students not ending yr 12 ‘a giant problem’: Jason Clare
The training minister, Jason Clare, is showing on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing within the wake of a deal inked between Queensland and the federal authorities to completely fund public faculties for the primary time. Queensland was the final holdout state to enroll to the settlement.
Requested if cash was the answer to drawback and inequity within the training system, Clare mentioned it needed to be tied to “actual reform”.
Reforms that may assist our youngsters who fall behind to catch up in school and to maintain up and to complete faculty.
The massive problem that we’re confronting in the intervening time is the variety of youngsters ending highschool [is] dropping. Not in all places, not within the non-government system however actually in our [public] faculties, it’s dropped from about 83% seven or eight years in the past all the way down to 73% … we’ve received to show that round.
Clare hailed the agreements because the “the most important funding by the commonwealth authorities in public training ever” – equal to $16.5bn over 10 years.
Nevertheless it’s not a clean cheque.
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The College of Wollongong (UoW) has proposed slashing as much as 185 full time roles as a part of a serious overhaul to cut back an ongoing deficit.
Probably affected workers have been notified by the college and can take part in briefings this week. The proposal, which is now in session part, would additionally cut back the UoW’s colleges from 4 to 3 and its faculties from 18 to 11.
Tutorial, pupil and analysis assist providers are proposed to be reconfigured as a “hub and spoke mannequin inside central portfolios to enhance the effectivity and effectiveness”. It’s anticipated to cut back 155-185 full time equal jobs with financial savings of round $26m.
In a press release, the college mentioned it was dealing with “important monetary challenges, partly as a result of Australian authorities’s adjustments to visa processing and migration coverage and a pointy discount in worldwide pupil numbers”.
Because of this, UOW suffered a $35m drop in income in 2024, with ongoing impacts forecast for 2025.
Interim vice chancellor and president Senior Prof Eileen McLaughlin mentioned the college “should proceed to make difficult decisions now to set the college up for a brighter future”.
Our precedence is to strengthen our foundations and ship a sustainable future for the college whereas making certain that UOW stays aggressive and modern.”
The ultimate adjustments are anticipated to be launched on 23 July.
Household fights for change forward of jail demise inquest
The household of an Aboriginal man who died in custody in 2022 hopes his inquest will result in change within the justice system, AAP stories.
Clinton Austin, a 38-year-old Gunditjmara and Wiradjuri man, died at Loddon jail in Victoria on 11 September, 2022.
Austin’s brother Shaun delivered an emotional assertion exterior the coroners court docket of Victoria on Monday forward of the inquest:
I can’t cease combating for you. I’ll struggle to make a change, any change doable, not just for Aboriginal individuals going by way of the justice system, however anybody who has to undergo it. I do know that’s what Clinton would need.
His household has mentioned he was a proud father and artist who had a giant coronary heart and needed to be an artwork trainer.
Austin had already served his two-year non-parole interval in jail when he died. He was the second Indigenous individual to die in custody in Victoria throughout the area of a month.
Virtually 600 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals have died in police or jail custody for the reason that Royal Fee into Indigenous Deaths in Custody handed down 339 suggestions in 1991.
The inquest is scheduled to proceed for 3 weeks.
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Victorian man charged with homicide over 2006 disappearance
In Victoria, a person has been charged with homicide after an investigation into the 2006 disappearance of then 38-year-old Christopher Jarvis.
The 72-year-old Wangoom man was arrested earlier as we speak and has subsequently been charged with homicide, resulting from face Warrnambool magistrates court docket this afternoon.
Jarvis was final seen when he left his home in Wangoom at round 6am on 13 June 2006. His automobile was later situated on hearth at Thunder Level, a preferred coastal lookout in Warrnambool.
His disappearance initially wasn’t believed to be suspicious till new info from the general public was reported to police. His stays are but to be situated.
Trump’s pause of Australian analysis funding over DEI not overseas interference, Clare says
The Trump administration’s momentary pause of funding to conduct a overview into whether or not Australian college researchers promote administration priorities and keep away from “DEI” and “woke gender ideology” doesn’t quantity to overseas interference, the training minister has mentioned.
Jason Clare was requested about critiques being undertaken by the US authorities into funding agreements it has with Australian universities, together with distributing questionnaires that request researchers verify they align with Trump’s anti-DEI agenda.
Requested if he had an image of the influence of these critiques, Clare confirmed seven universities had their analysis suspended or ceased.
This emerged out of a overview the US authorities initiated into overseas help and analysis has been caught in that … [I’ve] requested my division to work with these universities and get extra details about potential analysis that is perhaps affected and the Australian embassy in Washington is working with the US division to get a greater understanding of this.
Pressed if the questions, which included whether or not the organisation espoused anti-American beliefs or obtained funding from China, amounted to overseas interference, Clare mentioned “No, I don’t suppose it’s”.
That is that US funded analysis, US universities working with Australian universities. Finally, it’s as much as the US about what analysis it desires to fund.
He mentioned particular person researchers had been responding to the questionnaires because the training division sought further info. Requested if the Australian authorities would take into account filling the funding gaps in the event that they arose, he mentioned it wasn’t “sensible” to underwrite overseas analysis.
Clare mentioned he anticipated the outcomes of the US critiques could be revealed within the second half of April.
Early childhood assist key to boosting yr 12 completion charges, minister says
Labor has a yr 12 completion goal of 85% in public faculties by the top of the last decade. Is that achievable?
Clare mentioned the important thing to reaching it was ensuring individuals who fell behind after they had been younger received further assist to catch up. He pointed to early intervention by way of catch-up tutoring and yr 1 phonics and numeracy exams.
It’s not about constructing school rooms, it’s concerning the youngsters within the school rooms, it’s the funding within the youngsters … this can be a massive deal, no authorities has ever completed this earlier than ever. This settlement that we’ve now struck with each state and territory implies that each public faculty throughout the nation goes to be funded at that stage that David Gonski mentioned they need to be, and it ratchets up yr after yr after yr to get to that stage.
I’m a child from a public faculty within the western suburbs of Sydney, I’m the primary individual I my household to complete faculty, first individual in my household to complete yr 10, I’m solely right here due to … the academics who taught me, I perceive how vital it’s.
Rising variety of public faculty college students not ending yr 12 ‘a giant problem’: Jason Clare
The training minister, Jason Clare, is showing on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing within the wake of a deal inked between Queensland and the federal authorities to completely fund public faculties for the primary time. Queensland was the final holdout state to enroll to the settlement.
Requested if cash was the answer to drawback and inequity within the training system, Clare mentioned it needed to be tied to “actual reform”.
Reforms that may assist our youngsters who fall behind to catch up in school and to maintain up and to complete faculty.
The massive problem that we’re confronting in the intervening time is the variety of youngsters ending highschool [is] dropping. Not in all places, not within the non-government system however actually in our [public] faculties, it’s dropped from about 83% seven or eight years in the past all the way down to 73% … we’ve received to show that round.
Clare hailed the agreements because the “the most important funding by the commonwealth authorities in public training ever” – equal to $16.5bn over 10 years.
Nevertheless it’s not a clean cheque.
Josh Butler
Coalition plan to permit first house consumers to attract from tremendous may price price range billions, evaluation suggests
The Coalition’s plan to permit homebuyers to entry a home deposit from their superannuation would ultimately price the price range billions in elevated prices for the aged pension, Parliamentary Finances Workplace evaluation stories.
Labor MP Daniel Mulino, the chair of the parliament’s economics committee, mentioned the evaluation reveals “it’ll price first house consumers extra within the quick time period and taxpayers extra in the long run”.
The Coalition’s reasonably priced housing coverage would permit Australians to entry as much as $50,000 from their tremendous to purchase their first house, with the cash initially withdrawn from tremendous required to be returned when the home is offered to assist retirement.
The Labor authorities has strongly opposed the concept, proposed at successive elections, saying it might have an effect on retirement financial savings. On Monday, PBO evaluation was launched saying the parameters of the Coalition coverage may enhance age pension prices by $1.4bn a yr by the 2050s.
The modelling assumes 20% of renters (about 300,000 individuals) would take up the prospect to take $50,000 from their tremendous. A spread of different assumptions (together with on the speed of tremendous returns, tax on tremendous earnings, mortality charges and that folks wouldn’t make further contributions to their tremendous to compensate for withdrawing the preliminary deposit).
Labor has additionally highlighted College of South Australia analysis forecasting the coverage may additionally inflate home costs by as much as 10%.
Mulino mentioned the PBO modelling confirmed that “if individuals withdraw cash from their superannuation, all taxpayers could be footing the invoice with the price of the Age Pension to develop”.
Peter Dutton’s reckless plan to power first house consumers to raid their tremendous will push home course of up by much more than the $50,000 tremendous withdrawal he’s proposing. The true resolution is to construct extra properties and assist first house consumers with out forcing them to rob from tomorrow to pay for as we speak.
Henry Belot
Stan Sport criticised over digitally inserted adverts for offshore playing firm
Stan Sport has grow to be the second main streaming service to broadcast an offshore playing firm linked to bikini-clad croupiers in as many months, drawing inquiries from the media regulator.
The broadcaster digitally imposed adverts for the bookmaker 8XBet throughout dwell protection of a 9 March sport between NZ Tremendous Rugby Aupiki golf equipment Matatū and Hurricanes Poua. In February, Paramount+ broadcast ads for the same bookmaker throughout an A-League match between Wellington Phoenix and Brisbane Roar in New Zealand.
Each streaming firms have blamed the obvious breach of promoting coverage on an unnamed third occasion. In 2022, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) discovered 8XBet allowed Australian shoppers to gamble, despite not having an Australian licence. The corporate has subsequently withdrawn from the nation.
A Stan Sport spokesperson mentioned:
Stan Sport understands that these digital graphics had been attributable to a short, one-off and unauthorised take a look at by a third-party vendor concerned with the manufacturing in NZ. We’re working with our supply companions in NZ to make sure this doesn’t occur once more.
In a press release, a NZ Tremendous Rugby Golf equipment spokesperson mentioned:
This was an unlucky human error by a third-party supplier who the NZ Tremendous Rugby Golf equipment work with to supply digital commercials and graphics on subject throughout Tremendous Rugby Aupiki video games. We’re working with the provider to verify this doesn’t occur once more.”
An Acma spokesperson mentioned it was “looking for info from Stan in order that we are able to take into account the appliance of the principles in regard to those issues”.
In regard to the Paramount+ matter, we’ve sought info from Paramount+ and are presently contemplating their response.
Northern and western Queensland brace for extra flooding
Inland elements of Queensland are dealing with “important flooding” that would grow to be widespread, with communities threatened to grow to be remoted and roads prone to be blocked off.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s Miriam Bradbury mentioned on Monday afternoon remoted six-hourly rainfall of as much as 90mm may hit some areas of Queensland as a low-pressure trough drew “important moisture from the tropics”.
That is solely prone to exacerbate the flash and riverine flooding that’s already unfolding in these areas, water shifting over roads and entry routes is prone to result in prolonged delays or detours, and we may even see … some communities being remoted or lower off, in addition to influence for agriculture and trade … this case is simply starting to develop and is prone to proceed by way of a lot of this week.
Flood warnings are in place throughout a number of areas, with explicit concern for the north tropical coast, the place “grounds are moist and rivers are swollen”. The japanese inside of the NT, elements of north-eastern South Australia and much north New South Wales can also be impacted.
It comes as Western Australia faces a uncommon autumn heatwave and the doable growth of a cyclone off the coast.
BoM forecaster Jessica Lingard instructed ABC radio the temperature would stay above 35C for the following 5 days – the primary time town had been hit with such a string of sizzling climate in 40 years.
The unseasonable climate was being accompanied by a tropical low forming off WA’s north-west coast – forecast to maneuver westward because the weekend approached.
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Extra on HMAS Sydney’s three-month deployment
Now we have extra from Ben Doherty on the departure of HMAS Sydney for a three-month deployment that may embody coaching workout routines alongside ships from Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
Australian vessels and plane “will proceed to train our rights to freedom of navigation and overflight in accordance with worldwide regulation, notably the United Nations Conference on the Regulation of the Sea”, the division of defence mentioned in a press release.
The departure of the Sydney for 3 months follows the circumnavigation of Australia by a flotilla of Chinese language navy vessels earlier this yr
The three ships – comprising the Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang, the Renhai-class cruiser Zunyi and the Fuchi-class replenishment vessel Weishanhu – probably accompanied by an undetected nuclear submarine – sailed down the east coast of Australia in late February conducting unannounced live-fire drills within the Tasman Sea, earlier than crusing west by way of the Nice Australian Bight. They then sailed north, up Australia’s west coast, into the Sunda Strait, between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. The entire flotilla’s actions – together with the live-fire drills – had been in accordance with worldwide regulation.
HMAS Sydney is one in all three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers in service within the Royal Australian Navy: it carries a complement of greater than 200 personnel, and a Seahawk helicopter.
“As we embark on this deployment, we’re proud to symbolize Australia and contribute to regional stability and cooperation,” Cmdr Ben Weller, commanding officer of the Sydney, mentioned.
Deployments resembling this permit us to train the ship’s functionality throughout a spread of areas and alongside completely different companions, making certain we’re ready to work collectively in future.
Anthony Albanese has little interest in delving into the pre-election politics of Kooyong.
Requested about video footage reported as we speak of Monique Ryan’s husband, Peter Jordan, eradicating a Liberal occasion signal, he replied:
I do not know who Monique Ryan’s husband is.
The reporter replied that Jordan had eliminated a marketing campaign signal of Amelia Hamer, the Liberal candidate for Kooyong. Each Ryan and her husband have since apologised, with Jordan suggesting he thought it was displayed illegally.
Albanese replied:
On a day the place we’ve a $16.5bn nationwide training announcement, I’m requested about somebody’s husband eradicating a Liberal occasion signal on a highway someplace!
Can I ask, is there any connection in any way with anybody within the Labor occasion with this alleged occasion of which I didn’t know? No.
The prime minister is taking questions in Melbourne after saying a lift to Victoria’s infrastructure funding.
He’s requested a few new authorities security marketing campaign on the dangers of drinking alcohol while overseas, unveiled as we speak.
It follows the deaths of two Melbourne youngsters, Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, who died after ingesting alcohol tainted with methanol in Laos final yr.
Albanese mentioned his coronary heart went out “to the household and associates of Holly and Bianca, who misplaced their lives so tragically … and to their communities and to their associates”.
This was a tragedy that ought to not have occurred and one of many issues we’re doing is ramping up our promoting marketing campaign to extend consciousness of the alcohol associated dangers of abroad journey.
For a while younger individuals have been warned about medicine abroad however individuals have thought – fairly clearly wrongly – that having a drink in a bar, on this case in Laos … was a innocent factor to do.
It’s improbable for Australians to do what I did and what quite a lot of Australians do … we’re one of many nice travelling populations of the world, nevertheless it must be made protected. This marketing campaign, funded by the federal authorities, is about doing that, is about ensuring that younger Australians who journey abroad are conscious of the chance.
All faculties in Australia might be ‘totally funded for the primary time’, Albanese says
Albanese additionally spruiked Labor’s faculty funding settlement, to which all jurisdictions have now signed on after receiving the seal of approval from Queensland as we speak.
Victoria efficiently pushed the federal authorities to double its funding supply from a 2.5% enhance to public faculties to five% in January.
Albanese:
Colleges might be totally funded for the primary time proper all through Australia. Victoria earlier on had signed as much as our faculties funding settlement, we now have each state and territory signed up in our $16.5bn of improved funding, to guarantee that each little one will get the perfect alternative in life.
I thank the Allan authorities for signing up very early to that faculty funding settlement, to see elevated funding between now and 2034.
Learn extra about what all of it means right here:
Albanese publicizes $125m for Melbourne highway upgrades
The prime minister has been hopping in all places as we speak.
He simply appeared in Melbourne, saying a $125m improve to the Donnybrook Street and Mitchell Avenue intersection within the outer north, as a part of Labor’s $1.2bn suburban roads blitz.
Anthony Albanese mentioned the price range dedication got here on prime of infrastructure investments already introduced to verify Victoria received its “justifiable share” of funding after a 10-year deficit.
We need to guarantee that Victoria and Melbourne’s rising suburbs get assist. That’s why this weekend we’ve had the minister on the market saying assist for regional roads funding, to cope with stage crossings.
That’s why as we speak, as a part of our $1.2bn suburban roads blitz … we’re making these commitments to make a distinction in order that productiveness can enhance, so that folks can spend extra time at house with their household and their youngsters, moderately than caught in site visitors. And this vital challenge, a $125m improve to the Donnybrook Street and Mitchell Avenue intersection, is part of ensuring that we sustain with this rising group.
The challenge will rework the present roundabout I’ve simply been by way of, delivering further lanes, a totally signalised intersection and a brand new bridge over the creek right here … it’s a part of the substantial infrastructure commitments that we’ll have in tomorrow night’s price range. A price range that may proceed to have accountable financial administration while making a distinction, offering price of residing reduction, and all the time having personal eye on the longer term.
