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Somerville House, South Brisbane. Picture: Liam Kidston

Elite school’s drastic steps to expose how ‘malicious’ staff notes were leaked

Somerville House – which charges up to $30k a year – has hired “cyber experts” to investigate how inappropriate notes written by staff about students and their families was accessed and leaked.

Weekend - Brothers Ed and Bill Ovenden have launched a company called The Lad Collective selling sheets to clueless blokes. Pic Mark Cranitch.

How two Terrace boys turned bid to impress girls into $30m empire

A messy bedroom and desire to impress girls sparked these Brisbane brothers’ bedding revolution that’s now caught the eye of America’s biggest retailers.

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Nonnie Noffke and Bec Stephens at the All Hallows' mothers' morning tea at the Royal International Convention Centre in May 2025.

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Private school’s ‘tone-deaf’ response to family’s valedictory anguish

A furious family has blasted a school’s “tone-deaf” response to forcing their daughter to choose between having her mum or seriously ill stepmum attend her valedictory dinner.

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Revealed: The Queensland schools with the wealthiest parents

Ever wanted to see how much families earn at the state’s top private schools? Here’s a full list of the average income of families at every elite school in Queensland. Search now.

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15/08/02 111846a Head of School for the Sunshine Coast Grammar School John Burgess arrives at a School Board Hearing in Brisbane

Bombshell student rape claims against elite school founder

The former principal who started a prestigious Queensland private school is at the centre of shocking student rape allegations with claims authorities could have stopped it.

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Fairholme College Toowoomba school grounds.

Crisis meeting as $32m debt bomb endangers churches, elite school

An elite Queensland school is at risk after after huge debts triggered a crisis meeting with its owners.

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Elite Qld school at risk, churches to be sold in $32m court ruling

Queensland’s Presbyterian churches face extinction after a $32m Supreme Court ruling forces the denomination to consider winding up and clouds the future of a top private school.

Brisbane Girls Grammar School named top school. Brisbane Girls Grammar School Year 8 students Cleo Leck, Arabella Rafiee and Olivia Chen. Picture: Nigel Hallett

The elite Queensland schools ranked in Australia’s top 100

The top private schools of Australia have been ranked today and 20 Queensland colleges made the cut. See the full list and which ones made it into the national top 10.

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Low fees, ‘learning shifts’: Gold Coast’s new $50m private school

An elite college on the Gold Coast is set to announce a new school, offering the “lowest possible fees” for a private education and a new learning model. FIND OUT MORE

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Schools of excellence - Row of private high school students work on assignment in class. They are writing or using laptops or digital tablets. They are concentrating as they study. They are wearing school uniforms.

‘It’s not the teachers’ fault in public schools – it’s the parents’

It’s the question that divides Brisbane’s elite: Does your school really matter? HAVE YOUR SAY

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Churchie ( Anglican Church of England Grammar School) boys wearing hats.

‘A blazer and expensive hat don’t make you a better human’

Does the school you attended point to your intelligence, value system, or success? Is Brisbane too fixated on schooling history? Our readers seem divided. Here’s what you said.

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Nudgee College, Somerville House, Terrace? No one cares where you went to school, Madonna King says.

Nudgee? Somerville? Churchie? Why no one cares where you went to school

It’s the question that divides Brisbane’s elite, but going to a good school is not a golden ticket to wealth and social status as it might have been in the dark ages, writes Madonna King.

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Time to drop the jealousy-fuelled vendetta against our top schools

Our leading church and grammar schools are being unfairly targeted for the wrongdoings of a small minority. The real blame lies elsewhere, writes Des Houghton.

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Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell. NO BYLINE

Evidence destroyed: School’s disturbing response to deepfake nudes

A prestigious Queensland school has become the latest embroiled in a deepfake nude scandal with parents furious over the order staff issued to students.

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