‘the proportion of independent private school students making claims has hit nearly 20% … Principals say increased awareness of provisions, rising anxiety, more ADHD diagnoses and the pressures of high-stakes exams are driving some of the growth.’
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literally screamed at the ‘les miserables wedding flashmob’ (what a phrase)
thrilled for the bride but would rather die alone than have anyone do that at my wedding
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doing the GW quiz and wishing I hadn’t ignored my mum every time we’d drive past the statue of the lithgow flash and she’d give a little history lesson on family road trips
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'This year, after the winter we’ve had, [summer] will blow my head clean off my body. We’re talking full cranial evacuation. Pez mode.' Here's hoping.
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David Elliot on the rail union: “I backed them in every step of the way; they’ve shat on me from a great height.”
Evocative.
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A sensible explainer here on the proposal for a shorter Covid isolation period and what’s happened overseas
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on my way to work (inner west to CBD) on an almost empty bus - feels like everyone in sydney heeded the warnings today and just decided to wfh?
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This NSW auditor general's report is damning and backs up my extensive reporting on biodiversity offsets. Hope others follow it up as it's really important, including in the context of federal plans to create a biodiversity market.
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Moreton Bay Figs ftw, but especially the one in Newtown cemetery where I staged many a gothy photoshoot with my high school friends at the turn of the century (no pics)
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IN 4TH PLACE it's a huge QLD favourite, the Moreton Bay fig: Ficus macrophylla
#DYK this magnificent tree can grow as a stem from the ground OR as a parasitic 'strangler' like its cousin, Ficus virens?
It's also the highest polling non-eucalypt: all gum from here! #AusFaveTree
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This is a terrific interactive about not-so-terrific policy!
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Scrapping the stage three tax cuts would save $243bn. This could provide adequate funding for public schools, raise the Jobseeker rate, or pay for nuclear submarines. How would you spend it? collab w/ @AmyRemeikis theguardian.com/australia-news
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Despite importing so much inane ‘cancel culture’ discourse from the US, there’s been relatively little coverage here of the wave of book banning, particularly authors writing about racism and immigration.
Good story here on Anh Do getting caught up in it
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“The whole department was under pressure, time pressure and exhaustion,” the nurse said.
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some Beckett-esque wait times for Sydney trains at peak hour this afternoon
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I sadly can't get a script for the pill anymore because I get aura migraines. But you know what else blunts your 'drive to succeed' (however the hell you can define that) - intense regular period pain and PMS. Also, I imagine, being heavily pregnant or having a newborn.
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This, in scientific terms, is some bullshit.
'Is the pill blunting women’s drive to achieve?' smh.com.au/lifestyle/heal
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Just staggering pay packets for VCs at many Australian universities - with at least four earning more than $1m
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"If the stage three tax cuts pass, then nurses and CEOs will pay the same marginal tax rate".
Great piece by and
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last night the new weather presenter on ABC news said not to be fooled by the warm morning and to take a heavy coat tomorrow so I did and now the temp has dropped ten degrees in two hours and I really feel I got my 8 cents worth today :)
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NSW government STILL hasnt formally responded to a landmark inquiry into ice that criticised drug criminalisation more than 2 yrs ago.
The attorney general admitted his own frustration yesterday, with disputes in cabinet over some measures.
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honestly the full body relief about being outside the age range for this
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Millennials, do you think of yourself as middle-aged? Have you experienced a midlife crisis? NYT Opinion is working on a project that looks at how adults born between 1977 and 1984 view midlife. Use this questionnaire to tell us about your experience. nyti.ms/3AuuJh1
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Facing a ‘financial cliff’, Timor-Leste president Jose Ramos-Horta warns it will work with China if Australia insists on pumping Timor Sea gas to Darwin.
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This is such a beautiful story about grief for lost time and coming out later in life by the brilliant
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feeling amused 🙂
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79 Queensland police officers are being investigated over FB posts which mocked domestic violence victims, following reports by Guardian Australia:
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'[His] lack of contrition & lack of self-reflection 'was hardly surprising – they are the hallmarks of the man. But his attempt to use this fiasco to paint himself as some kind of enlightened statesman, the country’s messiah, is beyond the pale.'
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Putting aside the fact Emilia looks like a literal goddess, this is such a disgusting comment, especially from the boss of a company that has succeeded off the back of a program that required so much female nudity of its young actresses.
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Attendees at the premiere of the Game of Throne sequel series House of the Dragon were shocked to hear the Foxtel CEO describe Emilia Clarke as a "short, dumpy girl" 
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Ahh the lengthy Morrison preamble. I remember this song.
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Trying to imagine how long a normal person would last in any job if they talked about their org's deputy leader like this in public.
(Also curious to know how any women operate in the NSW gov given its apparently a 'man's job')
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House goes to auction with a price guide of $1.5m (revised up from initial guide of $1.4m) sells for $1.65m … which is revealed to be $96k below the actual reserve, despite being well over the stated guide. Normal Sydney things.
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‘Bulk billing is almost non-existent’: Tasmanian councils turning to ratepayers to prop up flailing GP clinics, by
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It is so hard to find a bulk billing doctor these days - such an important story.
Claims by the former gov that most patients are being bulk-billed are “not honest”, the new federal health minister, says.
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With the Barilaro shitshow, the NSW gov is in the orbit of something it cannot escape, writes
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Thanks to who told me about the scavenger hunt that included counting car parks he was made to do during an employability skills training course theguardian.com/business/2022/
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New from me on mutual obligations and the privatised job services system theguardian.com/business/2022/
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Australian gov used private security contractors to collect intelligence on asylum seekers on Nauru, singling out those who were speaking to journalists, lawyers & refugee advocates, internal documents from 2016 reveal.
Great reporting by
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The number of Aboriginal Australians who died in custody or as a result of a police operation in New South Wales in 2021 doubled the previous high set 25 years ago.
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