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The number of Queensland students who spent their last weeks of high school preparing for a final exam on the wrong Caesar has grown to 140 across nine schools.
Julius Caesar was the topic of this year’s Queensland final year history exams, but students from the nine affected schools had instead been swotting up on Augustus, his adopted son and heir.
The state’s education minister suggested heads would roll at the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority. The exam was due to be sat on Wednesday afternoon and the cause of the error is still unknown.
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What they said …
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“The bureau clearly has work to do in that it has lost community confidence in the new website.” – Chris Bowen
The climate change and energy minister was asked about the noticeably negative public response to the Bureau of Meteorology’s revamped website. The BoM has issued an apology and promised changes after the update.
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Can Labor finally get a deal for the environment?
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Before bed read
Sian Cain asks: who is Lily Allen’s Madeline about? Then realises she doesn’t actually want to know – “pop needs its mysteries”.
“Whether it’s Parton’s Jolene, Beyoncé’s Becky with the good hair or now Madeline on Allen’s new album, the ‘other woman’ is everywhere – but gossip risks spoiling these songs.”
Daily word game
Today’s starter word is: AGOG. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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