Students using their mobile phones or receiving smart watch notifications during the school day may be hit with detentions or even suspensions under a statewide ban due to kick in on the first day of term.
It has just 10 full-time students but the bush school of Clifton Creek, destroyed in the Victorian bushfires, has captured the hearts of the world and is receiving global support to get back on its feet.
With one leg longer than the other as the result of a childhood bone infection, 18-year-old Sonia Paua has hobbled kilometres to school for more than a decade. Now, the Papua New Guinean teen is heading to Melbourne to receive life-changing surgery.
True extent of the bushfire devastation in Victoria has been revealed in satellite images and the data shows if it weren’t for our dedicated firefighters, some large country towns would have been burnt.
Kids under the age of five are consuming fizzy drinks in “alarming quantities”, and a popular cartoon character is the reason why.
Parents who continuously post about their kids’ problems online could be unwittingly damaging their futures with a “humiliating digital footprint” that could cost them.
A promising new form of aerosol chemotherapy that slows down cancer growth and could even shrink tumours is offering fresh hope to cancer patients.
Scores of school leavers are increasingly being drawn to vocational careers that match community needs and workforce demand. These are the uni degrees most popular with Victorian teens.
After losing her youngest daughter Krystal in the horrific White Island volcano eruption, Marie Browitt is refusing to leave the bedside of her eldest daughter Stephanie, who is clinging to life in hospital after surviving the blast.
Most try and keep their distance from the Werribee Treatment Plant, however it’s recently been dubbed the “Kakadu of the south” as birds from interstate and abroad make the journey south. This is why.
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