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Jiress Musafiri, from the Australian African Foundation for Retention and Opportunity.

Off-the-books school suspensions fuelling Melbourne’s youth crime crisis

Informal suspensions and expulsions are fuelling school disengagement in Melbourne and experts see a clear link to the youth crime crisis.

  • Nicole Precel

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Three additional schools are set to pay the state government’s payroll tax.

‘This tax will break them’: The private schools about to be slugged with huge bills

Mid-market and specialist independent schools are getting caught by the state government’s controversial schools payroll tax.

  • Noel Towell
Aaron Lanfranchi with fellow tradesman Chris Richardson and Anthony Richardson at the Coburg High School worksite.

Builders’ collapse leaves school upgrades in limbo, tradies unpaid

More than $57 million in crucial school building work has been halted, and hundreds of tradies are out of pocket.

  • Noel Towell
Ben Carroll

‘I’ve always been a team player’: Ben Carroll on the VCE exam crisis and what drives him

The deputy premier knows the government is under pressure, but insists they are doing what needs to be done to turn things around.

  • Annika Smethurst

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