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James Baillieu and Corrie Perkin.

‘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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Zoe McKenzie is the Liberal MP for Flinders.

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
Frydenberg (right), pictured with moderator Cameron Stewart, also spoke at the official Sorrento Writers Festival.

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
Xavier College in 2021. The school’s enrolments have dropped almost 20 per cent in five years.

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
Colleen Harkin says the left pile is Australia’s maths curriculum and the right pile is Singapore’s.

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’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. A potential break-up of the company has been the most eye-catching – and controversial – aspect of the DoJ’s suggested remedies.

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
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The Seven Network has been dealing with staff underpayments.

$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
Olivia Newton-John performs in 2003

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
Dave Franklin, TV show The Block’s favourite landscape gardener.

‘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
Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price poses in a MAGA cap with her husband Colin Lillie in this Yuletide snap taken from her social media page.

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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