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June 14, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAALearning a language is a lifelong gift. It enriches our lives, giving children and adults an understanding of other cultures and deepening our understanding of our own.Yet fewer students are enrolling in language courses in Australian schools than ever.As education editor Christopher Harris writes, research has consistently shown that studying a second language comes with broad cognitive benefits for children.Australians may love going to Bali but they are missing opportunities to learn Bahasa Indonesia.iStockLanguage teacher Emilia Crino told Harris: “The…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAshley Klein’s betting escalated after the referee was secretly investigated by the NRL in 2019 despite an arrangement under which he agreed to have his gambling monitored by league headquarters.The Herald revealed on Friday that the NRL had known about Klein’s gambling issues for four years before he closed down his accounts and placed himself on BetStop, the national self-exclusion register, in 2023.NRL referee Ashley Klein.NRL ImagesKlein ended up losing more than $400,000 betting on horse racing and greyhound racing. Some NRL club bosses…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIt took Cruz Condren about a week to lose his Snapchat account, and a few seconds to get it back.“It asked me to verify my age by a camera,” says the 14-year-old from the Gold Coast. “I just asked my mum to scan her face because she’s over 18. It just let me back on.”Fourteen-year-old Cruz Condren (right) still uses Snapchat, with his mother’s blessing.Six months after Australia became the first country to ban under 16s from social media, Cruz’s workaround – performed with…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThousands of Victorian teenagers are preparing to sit a revamped high-stakes exam to gain a place at one of the state’s select-entry government schools, as many turn to tutors amid tougher than ever competition.The Education Department has received more than 6400 applications for students to sit the exam next Saturday, 700 more than in 2025. A combined 1000 year 9 places are offered across the four select-entry high schools.Dr Devang Krishna has been tutoring Point Cook P-9 year 8 student Madhav Rajesh before the…
June 14, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAInflation is when there are more dollars, but each one of them is worth less. Over the past years, accusations of misogyny have fallen victim to inflation.Politicians Jacinta Allan, Julia Gillard and Pauline Hanson have had very different experiences of sexism. Michael Howard That became apparent when a brothel-owner paid for trucks to drive around Melbourne with a “Ditch the Witch” billboard targeting Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allan. The gendered billboards were condemned by Labor and Coalition politicians. My first…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATaipei: Allan Chi responds matter-of-factly when asked how far his company’s drones can strike. They could reach Shanghai, China’s most populated urban area, 680 kilometres from the Taiwanese capital of Taipei.“We know that Taiwan needs something like long-distance attack drones that can attack cities in China from Taiwan,” Chi says. “It has to travel a long distance.” He notes, with a sense of regret, that even his company’s most advanced drones cannot reach as far the Chinese capital of Beijing.Chi works at Thunder Tiger,…
It is almost kick-off time in the first of four matches as the World Cup group stage really gets underway with four games in 11 hours. The Swiss are the overwhelming favourites to win this Group B clash. The game is being played at Levi Stadium, home of iconic NFL side the San Francisco 49ers, which has been renamed San Francisco Bay Area Stadium for the tournament under FIFA rules.Qatar was an automatic qualifier for the 2022 World Cup because it was the host country, but it earned its way into the field this time. Almoez Ali is the country’s…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA housing precinct expected to deliver up to 20,000 homes in WA’s South West region is still yet to receive the development green light from the state government, despite the project launching a decade ago.The Shire of Dardanup’s City of Wanju project officially kicked off at a naming ceremony back in 2016, with a plan to deliver between 15,000 and 20,000 lots to form a precinct that would complement existing services and facilities already available in greater Bunbury.Shire of Dardanup president Tyrrell Gardiner at…
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Australian girl killed by police in Pakistan A WA family were allegedly shot at by Pakistani police in a case of mistaken identity, leaving a nine-year-old dead.