Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from SRS

Australia’s biggest states hold out for greater public school funding as deadline passes

Queensland, Victoria, NSW and South Australia defy education minister Jason Clare and push on for a 5% increase in federal funds

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s ‘fully funded’ schools claim misleads

The federal government has not removed a loophole which potentially reduces funding to 96% of the Gonski level.

Crikey

Analysts retool Home Depot stock price target following earnings

This is what could happen next to Home Depot shares.

The Street

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Home Depot's $18.25 Billion Acquisition Of SRS Distribution Signals Industry Power Move

Home Depot's historic acquisition of SRS Distribution for $18.25 billion marks a bold move into the professional contractor market.

International Business Times

Home Depot Zeros In On Pro Builder Market With $18.3 Billion Deal

Dow Jones home improvement retailer Home Depot announced the largest acquisition in company history to target the professional builder market.

Investors Business Daily

Labor’s school funding pledge may trip on ‘loophole’

The federal government has said it will ensure WA schools receive 100% funding under the school resource standard — but that may not be true.

Crikey

Principals join teachers’ union push for Albanese government to lift public school funding offer

Exclusive: Letter to prime minister demands federal government pay at least a quarter of public school funding cost

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

To assert Western Australian public schools will be fully funded by 2026 is simply not true

Accounting tricks allow the WA government to claim non-school expenditures under its funding share, meaning public schools will actually be under-funded

The Guardian - AU

Social enterprise offers young people paid opportunity to protect UK oceans

Sea Ranger Service will offer the chance to carry out maintenance work and climate research on sailing vessels

The Guardian - UK

Atlanta police use Signal to discuss ‘Cop City’ amid outcry over transparency

High-ranking members of police department using encrypted phone app to communicate about project amid public concern

The Guardian - US

Australia’s 100 wealthiest schools earned almost $4.8bn in 2021, data reveals

Exclusive: education department figures reveal the private schools received about $770m in government money amid a public schools funding shortfall

The Guardian - AU

CEO grilled at fiery inquiry – as it happened

This blog is now closed.

The Guardian - AU

Labor not ruling out raising income-free area for jobseeker – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Merriwa Grove disability care closure leaves vulnerable residents facing relocation

A residential disability and aged care facility in regional Victoria is closing due to financial pressures, leaving families scrambling to find solutions for their loved ones.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

NDIS participants 'kidnapped' and financially abused in boarding homes for people with disability, report finds

People with high-value NDIS plans are being bribed with fast food, kidnapped and having their funding drained by providers, a bombshell report says.

Wales Online

Rogue trader brothers handed prison sentences after exploiting two elderly men from Cowbridge

The brothers threatened and intimidated their victims when payment for the poorly carried out work was refused

Reuters

India, soon world's most populous nation, doesn't know how many people it has

In two months, India is projected to become the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won't know how many people it has because it hasn't been able to count them.

Newcastle Herald

Hunter students move away from the traditional timeline of HSC results and university offers

"People feel too rushed to go to university."

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Crikey

Crikey’s cheat-sheet guide to the Victorian election. Today: education

Even after Saturday’s poll the state’s public schools will continue to languish as the country’s most underfunded and underprivileged.

USAFacts

Which states have the least and most crime?

Northeastern states have the lowest crime rates, while states in the South and West have the most crime

USAFacts

Which states have the highest and lowest crime rates?

Between 2021 and 2022, New York’s violent crime rate rose 39.2%, while its property crime rate rose 64.3%.

Wales Online

Food inspectors fear businesses in Wales might switch off fridges to save on energy bills

The Shared Regulatory Service said the prospects of fridges being turned off to save bills is a "real worry"

Wales Online

Concerns over sale of alcohol at huge new food hall planned for Cardiff's Capitol Centre

It is hoped that the food hall could breathe new life into the Capitol Centre in Cardiff's Queen Street

ABC News

Disability royal commission examines conditions inside Supported Residential Services

The daughter of a woman who lay dead for more than two hours on the ground of a supported residential service calls for changes to the system that "failed" her mother, after giving devastating evidence at the disability royal commission.

The Guardian - AU

Disability royal commission hears of abuse, neglect and fraud in supported residential system

Victorian facility did not breach legislation for failing to afford woman dignity by declaring she was no longer technically a resident because she had died

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.