NewsBite

Our Journalists

Susie O'BrienColumnist

Susie O’Brien is a columnist and journalist at the Herald Sun, writing on family, social, political and lifestyle issues. She also writes about parenting, or “sharenting” as it’s now known thanks to Facebook. Susie often writes about her three kids, but this is getting harder as they now regularly Google their names to check up on her. Susie is an experienced media performer who appears on Sunrise every Friday where her main audience is women on treadmills watching with the sound turned down. Over the years she’s been on The Project, The Circle, Mornings, Today, Weekend Today and Sky News and every other news show. She has a PhD in Education, but please don’t hold this against her.

Latest

Players run out after half time as little league kids slap hands with them during the Round 22 AFL match between the Melbourne Demons and the Sydney Swans at the MCG in Melbourne, Friday, August 16, 2019. (AAP Image/Michael Dodge) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

St Columba’s College teacher sacked for slapping student on hand

The long-serving science technician at the Catholic girls’ school has been sacked after she was found to have slapped a student on the hand during a year 9 biology dissection class.

FULL LISTEducation

web Suspended Teacher Story size

Full list: Every teacher suspended by the education watchdog this year

More than a dozen teachers and principals have been suspended by Victoria’s education regulator in the first six months of the year. See the full list here.

exclusiveEducation

Diverse business professionals engaged in a conference setting, attentively participating in discussions. They are dressed in formal attire, taking notes with laptops and notepads in a modern conference room. The event highlights collaboration and networking among attendees.School roomclassroomgenericschool

New reforms set to save teachers hours of admin every week

The state government has committed to scaling back extensive admin work being shouldered by Victorian teachers to give them more time to spend in the classroom. Here’s how it will work.

0

Deakin University, Burwood Highway, Burwood.Pictures: Janine Eastgate

‘Unacceptable overlap’: Deakin law students hit out at marking fiasco

Deakin University has launched an investigation after discovering a property law assignment was based on last year’s exam, with hundreds of students caught up in the “shameful” breach.

0

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 28, 2022: Stock images . Generic. Wesley College, Gladstone Pde, ElsternwickPicture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

Wesley College issues warning to students after train station fight

A “significant physical incident” at Elsternwick train station has caused an after school scare, prompting an elite college to direct students to seek alternative ways home.

0

Generic Childcare photo, Kids playing, Kindergarten, Picture: Getty Images,

Childcare educators urged to seek consent from babies, preschoolers

Early childhood educators are being asked to seek consent from babies and preschoolers while caring for them including in tasks such as changing a nappy, according to new recommendations for the nation’s peak early learning regulator.

St Francis Catholic College teacher Justin Farrugia has been suspended on an interim basis by the teaching regulator. Picture: St Francis Catholic College

Teachers suspended at St Francis and The Lakes South Morang Colleges

A maths teacher from a Catholic high school in Melton and a northern suburbs P-9 school educator are the latest to be suspended by the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

Diamond Valley Special Developmental School in Greensborough is facing allegations of failing to provide a safe learning environment, after a girl was sexually assaulted by a male peer twice. Picture: Supplied

Shock at alleged sex assault at Melbourne special school

Police are investigating an alleged assault on a student at Diamond Valley Special Development School as a witness described yelling and screaming when they noticed what was happening.

FULL LISTEducation

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 15, 2025: Premier Jacinta Allan is seen along withh Deputy Premier and Minister for Education Ben Carroll during press conference at Maribyrnong College.Picture: NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

Every Victorian school set to get an upgrade by 2028

The state budget has revealed key details of signature projects at public schools – and some students will be waiting longer than expected for upgrades. This is how your school fares.

0

EXCLUSIVEEducation

Learner driver Sarah Harris, 17, from Campbelltown taking part in a defensive driver training course at Sydney Motorsport Park at Eastern Creek. The course for young motorists helps them to make sure they are ready to handle being on the road by themselves. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Sneaky loophole teens are using to get their driver’s licences early

Victorian teens are illegally bypassing regulations and obtaining their driver’s licences before they’re 18 using this sneaky tactic. Read how they’re ditching the L-plates early here.

0

1
2
3
…
200

Original URL: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/journalists/susie-obrien