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‘Sorrento is not your town’: Writers festival fallout deepens
A pointy text or two is spicing up this deepening seaside showdown over an event at a Baillieu family mansion.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Liberal MP jokes that Advance Australia Fair is the ‘best Welcome to Country’
Sure, politicians are debating the custom and its place, but most have the good sense not to be glib about it.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Controversy at Sorrento Writers Festival as Baillieus host their own literary salon
Controversy alert at the Sorrento Writers Festival, south of Melbourne, where a private invite-only “sunset garden talk”, hosted by Josephine and James Baillieu, was the talk of the town.
- Stephen Brook
A 20 per cent enrolment fall at private boys’ school is all part of its plan
Of the seven boys’ schools charging more than $30,000 a year – Brighton Grammar, Melbourne Grammar, Scotch College, St Kevin’s, Camberwell Grammar, Trinity Grammar and Xavier College – one stands out.
- Madeleine Heffernan
Counting controversy: IPA sticks to claim that maths curriculum is 3500 pages long
The think tank says Australia’s maths curriculum is too complicated and packed with ideology. The body that writes the curriculum doesn’t agree.
- Madeleine Heffernan and Kishor Napier-Raman
Google school ratings going, going, gone after trolls take over
As of next week, reviews and ratings for schools will disappear from the search giant as too many reviewers have been naughty in class.
- Madeleine Heffernan and Kishor Napier-Raman
$25,000 short: Seven underpays journalists, then sells it as ‘good news’
So much for the end of the bad headlines for Seven. It’s now been revealed that it’s dealing with an underpayment controversy.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Less Hopelessly Devoted, maybe just hopeless: MSO go slow on Olivia Newton-John cancer cash
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has hit something of an off-note after promising a donation that took a long time to arrive.
- Liam Mannix, Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
‘We’re not shutting down’: Block favourite to rise from liquidation
TV landscaper Dave Franklin says the demise of one of his companies is just down to a reorganistion of his businesses.
- Liam Mannix, Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Happy snap! Jacinta Price poses in a MAGA cap for family Christmas selfie
A Christmas social media post has brought new tidings of the Liberal senator’s association with Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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