Bianca and Holly were poisoned while partying in Laos. They lay alone for 24 hours
Two teenagers from Melbourne’s bayside suburbs, best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, are on life support in hospitals in Thailand after suspected methanol poisoning.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Alex Crowe
Latest
Minister orders inquiry into VCE exam fiasco that advantaged thousands of students
The independent review is the second in two years into the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority after it previously published errors in exams.
- by Alex Crowe
Updated
VCE
‘They knew the questions’: Students stunned, teachers fuming over VCE exam leak – by the government
The VCAA is in damage control after questions similar to those found “hidden” on sample VCE assessments turned up in the real exams.
- by Caroline Schelle, Alex Crowe and Gemma Grant
Copy, paste: What we know about the VCE exam fiasco
Thousands of VCE students could have taken their exams with a hidden advantage over their peers, after some questions were accidentally revealed online in advance.
- by Bridie Smith, Caroline Schelle and Alex Crowe
Updated
Melbourne emergency
Man arrested after shots fired at police during siege in Melbourne’s west
A siege has ended after armed police arrested a man who allegedly shot at officers before barricading himself in a stranger’s home with a man and a toddler.
- by Alex Crowe
As it happened: Another earthquake near Dutton’s Hunter Valley nuclear site; Albanese heckled by protesters
Read the national news headlines for Tuesday, November 12.
- by Alex Crowe and Josefine Ganko
As it happened: Teacher’s aide, 43, dies while trying to save children in preschool truck crash, police say; Three-year-old boy seriously injured
A child has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after a truck crashed into a kindergarten in Melbourne’s outer north.
- by Alex Crowe and Caroline Schelle
Victorian schools are losing out in the border battle for teachers
Victorian graduate teachers are the worst paid in the country, with fears a NSW pay bump could make the teacher shortage worse for regional schools.
- by Alex Crowe
Students are shunning specialist maths and it’s costing the economy billions
Top engineers and scientists say the nation’s mathematics crisis is at a tipping point, with fewer students learning the foundational skills needed for the jobs of the future.
- by Alex Crowe
St Kevin’s student suffers fractures in freak school balcony fall
The teenage boy was on the year 7 and 8 deck during recess when the incident occurred at the Toorak boys’ school.
- by Bridie Smith, Alex Crowe and Marta Pascual Juanola
Madeline was too ill to go to school in her VCE year. It didn’t stop her from being captain
The year 12 student once feared she would never get an ATAR. Now she’s sitting exams and has her eye on university.
- by Alex Crowe
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