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BUSINESS BLUES
The mental health of Australia’s under-siege small business operators is plummeting as they grapple with being blindsided by regular rule changes and rising compliance bills. More than one in three operators – 36 per cent – say they have a mental...
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UNION POWER GRAB contract bias opens Labor's corruption: business door to
Unions would gain greater influence over who wins taxpayer-funded work under a proposed overhaul of federal procurement laws, with business warning it will drive up costs and heighten corruption risks. The Business Council of Australia is demanding the...
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'NUP' TO THE CUP
Cafes smashed by soaring power and fuel bills, tax whacks and rising interest rates are facing another NSW government headache — new laws making it harder to sell a cup of coffee. Under a proposed Bill, cafes will be forced to hand out reusable cups...
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DERANGED DEMON
The man accused of mowing down federal MP Helen Haines, who lost a leg in hospital yesterday as she continues her fight for life, is a disturbed and drug-affected loner who was known to police. Brendan Nugent, 43, was last night charged with a string...
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TARGETED HIT ON MP
Doctors were last night in a battle to save the legs of federal Independent MP Helen Haines after she was struck by a car outside her electorate office in what ASIO and police are probing as a deliberate and possibly politically motivated attack. PM...
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STREETS ON FIRE
Public enemy number one could be marching across Sydney’s inner west right now. Unfortunately for the public – and the team tasked with eradicating the threat – that enemy is literally the size of an ant. The discovery of a dangerous fire ant colony...
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The Everest TEMPTED ALL THE WAY MIGHTY MARE’S SHOCK WIN
Tempted has raced her way into The TAB Everest folklore with a heartstopping victory in the world’s richest turf in front of a record Royal Randwick crowd. Champion trainer Ciaron Maher knew going into the $20m showpiece his mighty mare would have to...
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WOMEN FUEL RACE’S RISE
Anna Robards has spent almost two decades enjoying a day at the races but these days getting out the door is a little more complicated. The former Bachelor star is preparing to attend The Everest for the first time today, leaving husband Tim Robards...
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JIM’S DONE A JOB ON US
Jim Chalmers’ economic management is facing fresh scrutiny after the country’s jobs market suffered a shock reversal, with almost 40,000 fewer people in work and accusations that runaway government spending is keeping interest rates painfully...
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WORLD WAITS FOR EVEREST
Catwalk queen Montana Cox is preparing for her biggest arrival yet, with the Australian model making her debut at The Everest this Saturday while 31 weeks pregnant. Cox, one of Australia’s most successful models, is expecting her first child – a baby...
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‘KILLER’ KID WAS ON BAIL
A young boy was on bail for carrying a knife when he allegedly stabbed to death a good Samaritan who stopped to help a group of kids on his way home from work. Senior police said the man was helping a different group of youths when he was set upon in a...
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DOWN TO THE LAST DROP
Ford star Brodie Kostecki has completed a stunning fightback to claim a second Bathurst 1000 crown after stealing the lead on the final lap after Chevrolet’s Anton De Pasquale ran out of fuel in a dramatic finish . Kostecki stormed home and took...
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I’ll never see my kids grow up
She has two young daughters, a loving husband and a lifetime of milestones she hopes to be there for. But after a second ovarian cancer diagnosis, Vanja Wilson, 40, is fighting for more than her own life – calling on the federal government to end...
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FLOORED BY JIM
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has sparked dramatic home price falls across 97 per cent of Sydney suburbs since his botched budget, new numbers show. The data is the first full quarter of suburb-by-suburb cost changes since May, with about $90,000 being wiped...
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NOT HAPPY, JIM
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is digging in over the Tax Office’s controversial credit card ban, defying a furious small business backlash as the decision also sparked a revolt in Labor’s ranks. The Treasurer is refusing to budge despite warnings his failure...
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HEARTACHE AND HATE
Alexi Demetriadi, James O’Doherty, Elodie Jakes, Jackson Robb and Elliott Stewart A young activist brandishing a homemade poster of slain Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar was the biggest flashpoint of a “heartless” but largely tame Sydney...
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SYDNEY’S DAY OF SHAME
It was Sydney’s lowest, most shameful moment. Immediately following October 7, 2023, subhuman ghouls gathered here to celebrate a slaughter of innocents. Now, on the anniversary of October 7’s cowardly butchering, they gather again – both to celebrate...
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WE’LL DRINK TO THAT
Gucci hats, drinks in hand, a breakdancing coach, a few unwashed playing kits, and a farewell for many of the Sydney Roosters team departing in different directions from the Waratahs to Japanese rugby to the UK Super League. The Roosters emerged...
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CHERRY ON TOP
The working-class dream has ended in agonising fashion with Robbo’s glamorous Roosters reigning supreme yet again. Brave Newcastle’s fairytale finally ended last night, beaten 19-18 by coach Trent Robinson’s all-conquering Roosters in a thrilling and...
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FROM HOPE TO HORROR
It was meant to be a day of pure joy 25 years in the making. But as thousands of Knights fans lined the highway to cheer on their beloved grand final-bound team, horror struck as an 18-year-old man in a BMW – allegedly driving “erratically” – ploughed...
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UNHOLY ROW
A scandal has erupted at a top Sydney Catholic school, with education authorities investigating online images concerning a female staffer and students being warned not to circulate the material. Sydney Catholic Schools has launched the probe into the...
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MIND THE GAP
Carriage doors on the multi-billion-dollar Southwest Metro line will stay locked shut when services finally open to passengers, because the Minns government failed to ensure the trains fit the platforms. In a stunning admission, Transport Minister...
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THIS IS ALL ON YOU, JIM
A conga line of critics has slammed Treasurer Jim Chalmers over his big spending agenda which has caused inflation to surge, with former RBA governor Philip Lowe, Premier Chris Minns and even Jim’s Mowing magnate Jim Penman smashing the “completely...
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RBA SLAMS JIM’S SPIN
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claim that high inflation is largely the fault of the war in the Middle East has been smacked down by Reserve Bank boss Michele Bullock, who cited higherthan-expected domestic spending for the bank’s decision to again hike...
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‘I’LL BE BACK’: CLEARY’S VOW FROM HOSPITAL
The road back has begun for Nathan Cleary. It won’t be easy and it won’t be quick but the early signs are promising after the Penrith Panthers superstar posted an image from his hospital bed on Monday afternoon with a double thumbs up and a vow to be...
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GIVE US A CHANCE
The Great Australian Dream of home ownership is in tatters, with half of all aspiring buyers giving up, stark new research has found. Millions more are resigned to renting for life, as our housing class divide widens to the real estate haves and...
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MONSTER HUNT
Shark-hunting drones have sparked authorities to move to protect swimmers more than 360 times off NSW’s coast in recent weeks, state government data shows. It’s the first time such prevalent shark activity can be revealed following a spate of horror...
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ULTIMATE PRICE
Constable Mia Lay was just 16 months into her dream job as a NSW police officer when the patrol car her colleague was driving smashed into a tree in Sydney, killing her instantly. Detectives are now conducting a critical incident probe into the crash,...
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BOT CAN I DO ABOUT IT
Federal authorities are scrambling to fortify our digital defences after a rogue AI bot hacked Medicare and state agencies. OpenAI, run by Sam Altman, said the rogue bot was out of the company’s control.
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PULLMAN FIVE ARRIVE
Sydney’s “Pullman Five” have returned to Swans HQ and apologised for their late-night bender in Melbourne last month which derailed their season and resulted in an assault investigation.
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I’LL FIGHT FOR THIS
Premier Chris Minns is headed for a showdown with Anthony Albanese after unveiling plans to slap a heritage order on Victoria Barracks which could sabotage federal government moves to evict the military and sell the base for top dollar. Mr Minns...
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A WALK-UP START FOR ROOSTERS
They are the “Reddy Nine” determined to turn the Roosters into chook feed – once again. Up to nine Dolphins players who played in the expansion club’s first NRL game against the Roosters in 2023 could take the field in the preliminary final on Friday...
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THE EVIL INSIDE
11.45AM Young woman allegedly murdered by her partner in Wagga Wagga 5.15PM Man accused of stabbing his grandmother, 90, to death in Bondi 9.35PM Woman allegedly decapitated decapitated by byher son near Tenterfield One woman was decapitated,...
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KISS & CELL
A trove of love letters written by Kathleen Folbigg while she was in Silverwater jail have revealed how she formed a relationship with a former police officer jailed for pedophilia. In the musings, she talked of marriage, love and life after prison....
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FESTIVAL OF HATE
Organisers of an electronic music festival have been forced to relocate events after two cars were torched following threats from anti-Israel activists. Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin condemned what he said appears to be a “targeted attack”, adding it...
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REIN IT IN, JIM
Battered Aussie households are staring down the barrel of three more interest rate hikes and a possible plunge into recession — and Treasurer Jim Chalmers has received a shocking report card on government spending from the International Monetary...
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NO MOORE MADNESS
Planning Minister Paul Scully has hit the brakes on Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s controversial Town Hall Square by taking control of the $150m project from the City of Sydney. The Telegraph can reveal Mr Scully is using his ministerial powers to try to...
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MATE’S HATE
One of Anthony Albanese’s most vocal supporters, actor Rhys Muldoon, has lost his taxpayer-funded job over a string of offensive social media posts. He called Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price a “quisling” and made a string of obscene remarks about...
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THIS IS NOT A GAME
The radicalisation of children through online video games will be a core focus of a new probe examining how kids are being lured by extremist and pro-terror groups, following revelations from ASIO that one in five priority counter-terrorism cases now...
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TEMP VISAS UP IN FLAMES
One Nation’s long-awaited immigration policy can now be unveiled, including Pauline Hanson’s desire to remove 750,000 temporary visa holders and unlawful non-citizens during three years of negative migration levels.
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WRITING WRONGS
Students will be restricted to as little as 15 minutes screen time during lessons as the Minns government takes drastic action to reverse plunging test results. To be introduced next year – and mandated in 2028 – the new policy will also require...
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CON AIR
Prison officers want to be able to shoot down drones flying over jails to drop contraband amid a surge in incursions. Three drops of almost $270,000 worth of contraband were intercepted this week. The drone flyovers are believed to be operated by...
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TONIGHT, WE UNLEASH TRELL
Back in round 5, which feels like a galaxy far, far away, the Penrith Panthers looked unbeatable, racking up big scores, with bookmakers offering short odds for them to go through the competition undefeated. But, of course, things change in rugby...
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HAIL CESAR
Cesar Barraza, the sharpshooting officer who took out one of the Bondi terrorists, had sprinted to the scene holding just his Glock 17 handgun after hearing a colleague say on the radio “I’ve been shot”. Before being posted to Bondi, the devout...
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STATE FAILS OUR KIDS
NSW students are now more than two years behind their parents’ generation in maths and reading by the age of 15, new research shows, with standards dropping to their lowest levels on record.
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FIGHT TO THE FINISH
Move over Penrith, there is a new premiership force in town – the New Zealand Warriors. After claiming their fourth minor premiership in seven years, the Panthers have been usurped as the most feared team in the NRL finals among their peers. That...
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SUPER SIZED CASH SPLASH
One Nation has outlined a bold plan to give thousands of dollars back to Aussies every payday by allowing a quarter of future compulsory super contributions to go back to workers with a mortgage or rent. The new exemption, which would run for three...
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MEET ‘SNARL’ STEFANOVIC
Karl and Jasmine Stefanovic’s beloved german shepherd has been ordered by a court to wear a muzzle and attend dog training school after an unprovoked attack on a member of the public that caused a “serious injury”. But Chance the dog successfully...
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BUSH BASH
Country communities are in revolt over planning rules they say have rigged the system in favour of renewable energy giants and stripped farmers of their power to fight massive renewable wind and solar projects. Less than two weeks after Planning...
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I’M JUST IN AWE OF ALL THIS
Jai Arrow received an unexpected rock-star welcome yesterday as he walked into South Sydney’s Heffron Park headquarters ahead of his final NRL game tonight. Hundreds of Rabbitohs fans had packed into the club’s training centre – well before its...
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FIRST HOME LIARS
The number of first-home buyers getting stamp duty exemptions in NSW has plummeted in the wake of Anthony Albanese’s broken-promise tax changes. Exclusive new figures make a mockery of Housing Minister Clare O’Neil’s claim that they would be a boon for...
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SUN, SAND & SQUANDER
Chris Bowen has spent more than $6m on ritzy hotel accommodation around the world in just a few months, including two bookings of $2m each for his pre-COP31 meetings in Fiji which have been panned after a series of high-profile snubs. The hotels...
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OUR LOST SOULS
It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime. It will instead become, many fear, the most devastating natural disaster involving Australians overseas. There are now 43 Australians unaccounted for in the Nepal floods including Sydney’s Muralitharan...
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SWEAT, SMILES & BROKEN RECORDS
It wasn’t just Olympic runners who made yesterday’s Sydney marathon a record breaking affair. While Ethiopia’s Addisu Gobena broke the course record to take the men’s title and Kenya’s Olympic marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir won the women’s race,...
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BOX SEAT BRAWL
A high-powered group of 359 Australian business chiefs, sporting icons, and public officials have launched a lawsuit to fight the NSW government’s move to scrap their VIP perks as “platinum members” of Accor Stadium. The group, including former Liberal...
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HOPE IN HELL
Family and friends of Australians missing in the catastrophic Nepal flood have vowed they will not “give up on hope”. At least 38 Australians were unaccounted for, including Sydney’s Muralitharan family (right).
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VALLEY OF DEATH
It was like an inland tidal wave, sweeping away lives in scenes that were scarcely believable. In the devastating tragedy that has unfolded in Nepal, at least 35 Australians, including two children, are missing, after an avalanche triggered flash...
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BUILD AND BE DAMMED
The 2026 Bush Summit got off to a fiery start yesterday with One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce attacking the government for “shoring up” green votes with over-regulation of the Murray Darling and “belligerence” in refusing to build dams. The Coalition has...
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SAVE OUR FARMS
Taxpayer dollars would no longer be spent turning farms into forests in the quest for net zero, under a bill about to come before federal parliament. The loss of prime agricultural land to carbon credit schemes will be one of the hottest topics at the...
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WORLD THIRST COUNTRY_
Farms, communities and businesses in Australia’s food bowl are dying of thirst in what has been labelled a “man-made drought” caused by the Albanese government’s major buyback of water for environmental flows.
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TEARS AND TRIUMPH
After a week from hell, it was a double-header that meant very little and everything, all at the same time, for an under-siege Sydney Swans club. At the final siren at the SCG last night after downing North Melbourne, Swans captain Callum Mills – who...
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Heeney and fiancée are ‘still on’
People in a hotel room for a Sydney Swans post-match bender are accused of putting feet on an exotic dancer and pulling a performer’s hand to their crotch, in fresh claims as a third woman threatens a potential civil lawsuit. A range of incidents to...
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OF NIGHT SHAME
» SHOCK NEW ALLEGATIONS AS WOMEN VOW TO SUE » ALBANESE’S MELON GAFFE DRAGGED INTO SCANDAL In just 12 hours, a coachapproved night out for Swans players spiralled into a police probe over alleged drug use, lap dances and inappropriate touching, as...
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‘SHE’S GONE, IT’S ALL OVER’
“There’s nothing more we can do. She’s gone. It’s all over.” Those were the heartbreaking words of Lily Hooper’s father Jim after an agonising wait in which his family was first told the missing teenager was found alive after eight days in the Nattai...
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LAP OF DISHONOUR
Cops focus on Isaac Heeney Australia’s G-G has her say Players out for the season Five Sydney Swans stars banned for the season as police probe sexual assault allegations face claims of hiring exotic dancers to perform at their hotel where police...
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BLACK SWANS
The sexual assault scandal engulfing the Sydney Swans emanated from an ugly dispute involving a female and one of the Swans players over touching that was “off limits”, sources have claimed. It comes as the Swans met last night to “agree on player...
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SWANS SEX ASSAULT PROBE
Sydney Swans players are understood to have been questioned by police over allegations of a sex assault at a Melbourne hotel, with superstars Isaac Heeney and Chad Warner, along with James Jordon and Riley Bice, believed to have been quizzed. Swans...
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WHO’S WHO IN THE LOGIES ZOO
Screen legend Sam Neill has been posthumously honoured at Australian television’s biggest night. The late actor was awarded the gong for Best Lead Actor in a Drama for The Twelve at the 66th Annual TV Week Logie Awards at Sydney’s The Star last...
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HOME TRUTHS
It’s officially the worst time to be a firsthome buyer in at least 56 years. New figures have revealed first-home buyers face the most challenging buying conditions since price records began in 1970 due to soaring debt, high interest and minimal...
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JET FIGHTERS
Sydney Airport travellers face more delays today after hours sitting on the tarmac last night as the furious Transport Minister told her staff to babysit the bungling boss of the air traffic controllers. Airservices Australia chief executive Rob Sharp...
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SCOTS BOYS’ RAPE CHARGE
Three students from one of Sydney’s most elite private schools have been charged with a gang sex attack on a teenage girl in an eastern suburbs laneway. The three Scots College students — two 14-year-old boys and a 13-year-old boy — were yesterday...
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BREACH FROM THE SKY
Damning figures have revealed 147 drone incursions were detected in restricted Defence airspace in a single year – exposing the true scale of the threat stalking our skies.
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SMOKING GUNS
The nation’s largest independent petrol station chain has had stores raided across the country - and some of them shut down - after a major investigation into the alleged supply and distribution of illegal tobacco, with industry experts warning the...
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KYLE’S COMEBACK CHAOS
Kyle Sandilands’ much-hyped return to broadcasting descended into chaos when technical glitches and on air profanities marred his new podcast’s debut. Sandilands returned to the microphone yesterday with a $99 subscriber-only breakfast show, Kyle...
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SWITCH OFF SCREENS AND GET IT WRITE
Parents, teachers and education experts are backing efforts to reduce screens and devices in classrooms to lift literacy standards, amid growing concerns over the impact of AI and excessive screen time on children’s education. St Joseph’s Primary...
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