Natasha Bita

Natasha Bita is a multi-award winning journalist with a focus on free speech, education, social affairs, aged care, health policy, immigration, industrial relations and consumer law. She has won a Walkley Award, Australia’s most prestigious journalism award, and a Queensland Clarion Award for feature writing. Natasha has also been a finalist for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award and the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism. Her reporting on education issues has won the NSW Professional Teachers’ Council Media Award and an Australian Council for Educational Leaders award. Her agenda-setting coverage of aged care abuse won an Older People Speak Out award. Natasha worked in London and Italy for The Australian newspaper and News Corp Australia. She is a member of the Canberra Press Gallery and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. Contact her by email natasha.bita@news.com.au

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exclusiveHigher Education

Fraud and sex slaves: blitz on dodgy training colleges. Picture: Unsplash

Fraud, sex slaves: blitz on dodgy colleges

Dozens of dodgy training providers have been shut down over ties to organised crime, fraud and bogus qualifications, as cash-starved universities threaten to sack staff.

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UniversitiesEducation

5/4/24: Chinese student (not to be identified) studying at the University of Western Sydney as an international student. On top of $30,000 a year in tuition fees he struggles to find anywhere to live and is currently paying $300 a week for a room in a share house. John. Feder/The Australian.

Student cuts risk 14,000 uni jobs

Universities Australia has revealed the impact of cuts to international student numbers.

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FundingPolitics

Chief Minister Eva Lawler, Federal Education Minister Jason Clare, and NT Education Minister Mark Monaghan sign the Better and fairer Schools Agreement for a billion-dollar funding commitment from the federal government. Picture: Sierra Haigh

Migrants blamed for services pressure

Migrants are being blamed for piling pressure on public schools and hospitals, as NSW Premier Chris Minns demanded more federal funding for state-run services.

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FundingPolitics

a young classroom assistant listens as her young student explains what she is reading on a digital tablet . The little girl is having a think with her hand on her chin . Picture: Istock

$16bn for states tied to school reforms

The Albanese government has lit the fuse on a two-month countdown for states and territories to sign up to student learning and wellbeing reforms or lose $16bn in bonus funding.

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School disciplinePolitics

Free training to control rowdy classroom chaos

Teachers struggling to control rowdy students now have access to a free classroom management training course.

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Needs of the NationIndigenous

10/7/2024: Indigenous young adults, Renee Cubby 19 and Isaiah Harrop 19 discuss how Australians view an Indigenous treaty and Closing the Gap. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Education helps First Nations students achieve their dreams

Education has been the ticket to opportunity for trainee teacher Renee Cubby, who plans to pay the privilege forward by teaching in a remote Aboriginal school.

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Needs of the NationNation

Hand of human holding green earth with tree for ESG, co2, and net zero.Concept of World sustainable environment, Save our Planet, World Environment Day, World Earth Day and Climate change.

Health, housing top public spending wish-list

A public wish list of government spending priorities is revealed in a new survey that also shows significant opposition to climate change expenditure.

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‘we’ve been doing it wrong’Inquirer

An Empty Chair in a Dark Classroom. Generic classroom, empty classroom, teaching, student, school. Picture: iStock

State’s ‘old school’ switch offers a template for the nation

For decades, children’s learning has been sabotaged by left-wing ideologies that regard schooling as an opportunity for indoctrination and social engineering. One Australian state has just wiped the slate clean.

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ExclusiveEducation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos - MAY 15: Deputy Premier Prue Car speaks during question time at New South Wales Parliament House in Sydney. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

Funding fight hits school reforms

A 10-year school spending and reform deal is set to be delayed for the second year running, exposing the Albanese government to a politically perilous funding fight in the countdown to an election.

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Needs of the NationNation

Australian flag flip flop thongs on a beach

Laid-back lucky country still pride of Australians

The Weekend Australian’s Needs of the Nations survey reveals that most Australians see themselves as easygoing, friendly, hardworking and generous.

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