Joanna Panagopoulos

Joanna started her career as a cadet at News Corp’s local newspaper network, reporting mostly on crime and courts across Sydney’s suburbs. She then worked as a court reporter for the News Wire before joining The Australian’s youth-focused publication The Oz.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos,June 4, 2022: Student enjoy the grounds at Sydney University as concerns for young Australians are re-assessing their education with student-debt balances rising across the country amid cost-of-living pressure.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Foreign students top cheat inquiries

Close to 80 per cent of student misconduct complaints – driven by creative cheating methods such as AI – in 2023 were attributed to student visa holders.

Emotional statementNation

Image approved for use by family of two boys found in Faulconbridge home:

‘Unimaginable pain for funny, outgoing boys’: Father who discovered his boys’ bodies

A father who discovered his two sons dead at a home in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney this week has remembered his ‘happy, funny, outgoing boys’.

‘extreme devastation’Nation

NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 11, 2024. Brett Button , A bus driver behind the wheel when a wedding bus crashed killing 10 people and injuring 25 more in NSW’s popular Hunter Valley gave evidence in court. Brett Button, 59, appeared before Newcastle District Court. Court Sketch: NewsWire/ Rocco Fazzari

Bus driver sentenced to 32 years for crash that killed 10

Brett Button has been sentenced to 32 years in prison after 10 people died and 25 others were injured in a horror crash after a Hunter Valley wedding last year.

BUTTON HEARINGNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.NewsWire Photos. May 8, 2024.Brett Button arrives at Newcastle court surrounded with family and friends. The bus driver is accused of causing a fatal crash that killed 10 people in the NSW Hunter Valley.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

‘Look at me when I speak’: Survivors speak of horror bus crash

Many outlined the horror of waking from unconsciousness after the bus had toppled, and described lives that had since been stripped of joy and peace.

Sentencing hearingNation

NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 9, 2024. Friends and family's of the victims arriving at the sentencing of Brett Button, the driver behind the wheel of a wedding bus when it crashed in NSWÃs Hunter Valley killing 10 people and injuring 25 more at Newcastle Court. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Adam Yip

Hunter bus crash families confront driver in court

Brett Button was behind the wheel when his bus rolled and killed 10 people. On Monday, he heard from the many families who lost their children, partners and best friends.

‘Staff will have to go’Nation

backside graduation hats during commencement success graduates of the university, Concept education congratulation. Graduation Ceremony ,Congratulated the graduates in University during commencement.

Student caps a road to chaos, university chiefs warn

Universities have outlined the ‘perverse unintended consequences’ of the formula used by Labor to determine international students caps, including fewer nurses in public hospitals and the axing of study help for domestic students.

EXCLUSIVEEducation

Liverpool Girls High School. Picture: Supplied

Single-sex schools ‘discriminate’: principal

The principal of a southwest Sydney boys high school, soon to merge with its neighbouring girls school and become co-ed, has referred to single-sex education as ‘a discriminatory structure’.

EXCLUSIVEHigher Education

Horizontal color image of a small group of Australian university students from different heritages and backgrounds.

Student caps a disaster, warn experts

Universities need government funding offsets or privatisation to withstand international student cap revenue losses, experts say.

EXCLUSIVEHigher Education

Inner Mongolia Normal University. Picture: Supplied

Despite tensions, Australian studies thrive in China – but not the other way round

Australian studies are flourishing in China, researchers say, with ‘Patrick White and Henry Lawson probably taught more in Chinese universities than in Australian’ institutions.

higher educationHigher Education

UNSW student Davey Dor using TALIA to virtually visit hot springs in New Zealand. Credit: Richard Freeman / UNSW

Virtual learning: fancy a trip to Mars?

University researchers have developed a low-cost digital tool that allows lecturers in almost every discipline to quickly create their own virtual field trips.

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