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Coalition, Labor outline election education priorities, as experts say Australia a global 'outlier' on private schools

Experts say Australian education is at a crossroads. Despite record investment, results are falling across all schools, even as the government and parents spend record amounts on educating children. So will the election bring change?

Schools, hospitals high on Labor's agenda

Schools, hospitals high on Labor's agenda

Labor is promising to splash cash in two key sectors, including incentives for teachers and matching a hospital investment from the SA government.

Labor will announce new measures to close gender pay gap in election campaign’s final fortnight

Labor will announce new measures to close gender pay gap in election campaign’s final fortnight

Tanya Plibersek says party would look at introducing superannnuation on paid parental leave ‘when we can afford to’

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Federal Labor to fund Medicare urgent care clinics in Darwin and Alice Springs if elected

Tanya Plibersek announces a Labor government would fund Medicare urgent care clinics in Darwin and Alice Springs as a plan to relieve pressure on hospitals, and also purchase a second CareFlight helicopter for the NT.

National autism strategy in the pipeline, with both Coalition and Labor committing to plan

No matter who wins the federal election, Australia is set to develop a national autism strategy — a move that has been welcomed as a "good start" to changing community attitudes to children and young people with a disability.

Labor ditches policy of adding superannuation to Commonwealth-funded parental leave

Federal Labor has ruled out paying superannuation on Commonwealth-funded parental leave, a policy it took to the 2019 election to bridge the gender gap and improve retirement savings for women.

Half-time results are in: who's having a good election campaign, and who isn't?

When pre-poll voting starts on Monday May 9, it will signal the denouement of one of the least compelling streaming series ever to secure repeat funding: #AusVotes2022.

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Albanese pledges to make gender pay equity a Fair Work Act objective

Albanese pledges to make gender pay equity a Fair Work Act objective

Anthony Albanese has pledged a Labor government would make gender pay equity an objective of the Fair Work Act and strengthen the Fair Work Commission’s powers to order pay rises for workers in low paid industries dominated by women.

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Voters don't want more of same: Albanese

Voters don't want more of same: Albanese

As Labor is poised to make announcements on housing and medicines at its campaign launch, Anthony Albanese says it's time to build a better future.

Grattan on Friday: Managing post-COVID a delicate balance for Anthony Albanese

Grattan on Friday: Managing post-COVID a delicate balance for Anthony Albanese

Philip Lowe mightn’t be a household name but the Reserve Bank governor finds himself catapulted right into the centre of this election campaign, in which events are proving more important than policies.

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Richard Marles’ contentious China trip was praised by Coalition MP

Richard Marles’ contentious China trip was praised by Coalition MP

Deputy Labor leader was joined in Beijing in 2019 by Ted O’Brien who wrote a positive testimonial of the study tour

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Liberal Party accused of 'con job' after funding pledge for bypass in marginal seat

Liberal Party accused of 'con job' after funding pledge for bypass in marginal seat

A Liberal Party election pitch to start work on a major infrastructure project in a marginal seat has been criticised by Labor as a "con job".

National teacher’s union ‘concerned’ by lack of detail in Labor’s public school funding policy

National teacher’s union ‘concerned’ by lack of detail in Labor’s public school funding policy

AEU president backed funding announcement but criticised lack of timeline, while noting Coalition had offered ‘nothing at all’

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Alan Tudge remains as education minister after saying he would not return to the frontbench

Alan Tudge remains as education minister after saying he would not return to the frontbench

Officials confirm Tudge remains minister ‘on leave’ despite acting minister Stuart Robert performing functions of the role

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First Nations languages must be taught alongside 'truthful' history in schools, advocates say

When Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara singer Isaiah Firebrace started a petition for First Nations history and culture to be included in the Australian school curriculum he expected no more than 2,000 signatures. It now has 300,000 and has been tabled in Parliament.

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Grattan on Friday: what comes after this grinding election campaign passes?

Political observers hang out for when the prime minister will announce the election date, marking the start of the “campaign”.

Anti-vaxxers are claiming an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis is really being caused by adverse reactions to Pfizer's vaccine. Here's why that's bunkum

Anti-vaxxers are once again using a Pfizer document to spread misinformation, this week claiming that Japanese encephalitis is a cover-up for adverse reactions to the company's vaccine.

Tanya Plibersek says a Muslim woman on a train in Sydney has no protection under the law if someone yells at her for wearing a hijab. Is that correct?

Shadow Minister for Education and Women, Tanya Plibersek, says a Muslim woman on a train in Sydney would have no protection under the law if someone yelled at her for wearing a hijab. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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Federal Labor to pledge $77m for teachers to educate students about sexual consent

Opposition’s new commitment comes after $32m pledge by the Morrison government

Labor's Plibersek tests positive for COVID

Federal Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek has tested positive for COVID-19 after her children contracted the virus.

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Victoria’s ‘code brown’ to end; WA records second Covid death – as it happened

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tanya Plibersek on parents' role in reducing violence against women

As election year opens, Michelle Grattan speaks with Tanya Plibersek, Labor’s spokeswoman on education and women, about the opposition’s agenda in these two critical areas.

Anthony Albanese uses first election-year stump speech to pledge $440 million for school upgrades

Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese uses his first major speech in an election year to promise funding to upgrade schools buildings and provide more mental health support for students.

Zero hour: Parliament House Canberra

A day in the life of Zero Carbon Australia 2020, an environmental campaign launched at the seat of power.

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