Petra Rees

THE Abbott government should make it so clear to Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he is not welcome here that he is shamed into staying home.

Greg Sheridan and comment

FEWER subjects will be taught in primary school under sweeping changes to the national curriculum to be unveiled on Monday.

AN outspoken critic of collecting standards has welcomed new due diligence guidelines adopted by culture ministers yesterday.

MICHAELA BOLAND

IT’S 7pm and the Bounty Hotel is buzzing. Swarms of Aussie footballers mingle at the favoured watering hole before hitting Kuta.

DEBORAH CASSRELS

SPECIAL Minister of State Michael Ronaldson expects the AEC to make a call on whether to widen the probe into Indi.

SABAH Suleiman says her parents opposed her decision to don a niqab as a 16-year-old living in a refugee camp in Sudan in 1991.

TWO lawyers who backed Cathy McGowan are among those in a confidential dossier of 27 alleged enrolment fraud cases.

HEDLEY THOMAS AND SID MAHER

THE pause in average surface temperature rise made the case to limit climate change to 2 degrees C “tenuous”, scientists say.

IN terms of financial scale, public interest and bang-for-your-buck, it would be impossible to trump an investigation into Clive Palmer.

FORMER residents of a Darwin missionary home have threatened demonstrations if the site is not turned into a community centre.