2 h. ago Mother reveals her final message to daughter before alleged murder

The death of athlete and UTS student Audrey Griffin, 19, was initially dismissed by police as non-suspicious. A man has now been charged with her murder.

Events

5 h. ago Man charged with murder of university student found in creek

Police had initially dismissed the death of athlete and UTS student Audrey Griffin, 19, as non-suspicious. Her family described her as a “radiant soul” who was “full of light, kindness, and laughter”.

Events

7 h. ago Markets on ‘Trump watch’, braced for recession risk as ASX tipped to steady

The ASX is preparing to reopen for a shorter trading week after a closure over the Easter break.

Politics

7 h. ago Trump’s peacemaker charade has failed. Ukraine and the West will pay a price

After two years of insisting that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in his first 24 hours if returned to the White House, Trump is preparing to walk away from the problem entirely.

Politics

7 h. ago Wall Street sells off as markets on ‘Trump watch’ brace for recession risk

The ASX is preparing to reopen for a shorter trading week after a closure over the Easter break.

Politics

17 h. ago ‘Nothing in my degree to prepare me for that’: Why student teachers face big changes

Australian universities have until the end of the year to overhaul more than 280 teacher training courses.

Society

18 h. ago Universities radically reform teaching degrees as deadline looms

Everything Leah Myers knew about her job was “flipped on its head” after sweeping reforms to teacher training followed a national review.

Society

20 h. ago The teacher who beat schoolboy Gout in the semis also won the Stawell Gift

John Evans isn’t sure what the bigger achievement will be – telling his kids he won the Stawell Gift, or telling them that the day he did it, he beat Gout Gout.

Society

31 h. ago Albanese used captain’s call to avoid messy brawl over gambling ads

This was the fourth time the prime minister had blocked controversial policies to avoid rocking the boat as he prepared for the campaign.

Politics

40 h. ago ‘Fearing the worst’: Dogs prepare for possibility knee injury will end Darcy’s season

A hush went over Marvel Stadium as the Bulldogs’ star forward hobbled off the ground with a knee injury sustained in a marking contest.

Events

40 h. ago Dutton says sacked Home Affairs boss Pezzullo ‘should have a role to play’ in nation’s future

Mike Pezzullo says he would be prepared to “again serve my country” if the government asked.

Politics

65 h. ago AFL Easter Saturday LIVE: A giant frustration for GWS in Adelaide loss, Noah Balta prepares for Richmond return

It’s a shorter Super Saturday of Easter football. Melbourne and Fremantle clash early at the MCG in an intriguing clash, Adelaide and GWS Giants meet and, tonight, Damien Hardwick coaches Gold Coast against his old side Richmond.

Politics

2 d. ago The worst paid teachers in Australia are spoiling for a fight to get a better deal

The teachers’ union has raised the spectre of strike action for the first time in a decade in pursuit of a pay demand of up to 14 per cent for 52,000 Victorian government school educators.

Society

4 d. ago A game of chicken (jockey): Melbourne cinemas embrace Minecraft mayhem

Theatres were prepared for the phenomenon when it arrived in Australia last week, even buying industrial vacuums to clean up the mess after each screening.

Politics

5 d. ago The Hawks were ‘close to death’. These are the people who brought them back from the brink

Petty politics have been set side as the Hawks prepare to move to their new training base, the Kennedy Community Centre, at Dingley in Melbourne’s south-east.

Events

5 d. ago How ‘Australia’s worst school’ transformed after public low point

Two determined principals dramatically turned around the culture of a school where student and educators’ physical and mental health, plus academic records, had been plummeting.

Politics

5 d. ago Glenda was a teacher who made a schoolgirl cry. Then she tried one change

They’d had it with teaching. It was partly chemistry, partly Dorothy the Dinosaur that led Glenda and Jennifer into their new careers.

Society

5 d. ago Teachers bitten, pushed down stairs: How ‘Australia’s worst school’ transformed after public low point

Two determined principals dramatically turned around the culture of a school where student and educators’ physical and mental health, plus academic records, had been plummeting.

Society

5 d. ago State of Melbourne funeral home ‘disgraceful, appalling’, experts tell court

The embalmer at a funeral home at the centre of a defamation case has rejected suggestions her preparation room was “disgraceful” after a court was shown images of bodies stacked on trays.

Events

5 d. ago School teacher accused of sexually assaulting five students pleads guilty

The primary school teacher allegedly sexually assaulted a child every day for two terms.

Society