Who decides what Australian students are taught in schools?

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has begun his election campaign with fresh criticism of schools. The Coalition has previously raised concerns the national curriculum is unwieldy and infused with ideology. On Monday night,...

Election Diary: Dutton flags intervention in what he sees as ‘woke’ education, but how much could he actually do?

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Peter Dutton came perilously close to a DOGE moment on Monday night, when he was asked about getting the woke agendas out of the education system. Noting the Commonwealth government doesnt own or run a school, Dutton told...

Inside an urban terror network: book reveals how police finally cracked Pagad gang violence in Cape Town

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A campaign against gangsterism in Cape Town, South Africa led by the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) turned violent in the mid-1990s when a group known as Pagad G-Force began what became known as an urban...

Labor will urge Fair Work Commission to give real wage rise to three million workers

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The Labor party on Wednesday will urge the Fair Work Commission to grant a real wage increase to Australian workers on awards. This goes further than Labors recommendations in earlier years, which have been for real wages...

Canada a 51st state? Here’s how American annexation could actually favour Canada

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When United States President Donald Trump first floated the idea of annexing Canada, many observers rolled their eyes. The common assumption was that this proposal, like much of Trumps bombast, amounted to little more than...

Cannabis retail expansion in Canada came with only a small uptick in the number of consumers

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Ever since recreational cannabis was legalized across Canada in 2018, researchers have been studying what that decision changed for Canadians. Weve learned, for example, that some patients immediately left the medical...

Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization

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Ever since the United States governments unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American 40 acres and a mule after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of...