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Should parents watch horrifying Netflix viral hit with their teens?

A new Netflix show about a high school couple tormented by an anonymous bully has become an international sensation. But do experts think it’s too disturbing for kids?

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Cherrybrook Technology High School year 12 students sit an HSC English exam in 2022. Picture: Jonathan Ng

HSC students reveal which exams they want to move online

The majority of Year 12 students want to ditch traditional pen and paper exams, new research has revealed, as NSW’s examiners prepare for the HSC’s first ever computer-based coding exams.

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Daniel Bachi is an Auslan teacher at NSW TAFE. Picture: Supplied

Sign me up: Australia’s fastest-growing new language isn’t verbal

Auslan sign language is emerging as one of the most popular new language options in primary schools – but we’re running out of teachers despite TAFE enrolments soaring.

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Brock Sawtell, Maryline Medard and daughter Ella Sawtell from Cairns enjoying free activities in a Darwin playground these school holidays. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Parents’ staggering spend on school holidays fun revealed

Aussie families are spending more than a billion dollars a week on school holidays activities as the cost of keeping kids entertained skyrockets.

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At Tree Climb in the South Parklands, 5 year old Ethan Solomon of Lights View, is rapidly gaining confidence making his way around the course. Father, Basleal Solomon, (0451972019). Experts and parents agree that kids need to get dirty, take risks, play outside and to be given freedom, but parents are too scared to let their kids stray into the next supermarket aisle, let alone climb a tree. Why risky play is important and why it's not happening in modern families. 5 September 2025. Picture: Dean Martin

Parenting throwback giving cotton-wool kids a new lease of life

Experts and parents agree kids need to take risks and be given freedom, but some adults are too scared to let their kids stray into the next supermarket aisle, let alone climb a tree.

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Stop mocking us: Joke’s on private school parents – but has it gone too far?

They’re often lampooned as privileged, pampered and precious, but are private school parents given a raw deal? Some argue satirical news stories are “doing real harm”.

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The awful truth about parent-teacher interviews

Is any family duty more excruciating than a parent-teacher interview? It’s just an exercise in ritual humiliation and shameless lying, writes Susie O’Brien.

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August 27, 2025: Anastasia Jovanovic 14 and Eva Antoniou,12 part of the Adelaide Olympic FC girls teams. Picture: Kelly Barnes

Cruel trolling of teen soccer star highlights why girls don’t stick at sport

Teenage girls abandon team sports at alarming rates, and one sickening example of trolling explains why. But a few simple changes could reverse this worrying trend.

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Brutal message for modern parents – you’re ruining childhood

Is a carefree childhood really a thing of the past? A retiring children’s commissioner calls out an alarming trend and says mums and dads need to do one key thing differently.

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Technology & Digital Safety

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Our Mac might still be here: Grieving dad’s message to PM

A man whose son died after online sextortion has told the Prime Minister his child might still be alive if Labor’s social media ban had happened sooner.

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Classroom crisis: Teacher stress levels 40pc higher than other workers

Teachers are reaching breaking point with burnout rates soaring far above other professions – and a major new Australian study has found it’s also harming their families.

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Fake nudes: Crackdown on latest insidious threat to our teens

AI technology used to create fake nudes will be targeted in a new crackdown as the shocking number of visits to well-known ‘nudify’ sites is revealed.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - ADVERTISER Photos AUGUST 28, 2025: An 11-year-old transgender girl (can not be identified) in Adelaide talks about what it was like when she started living as a girl this year. Picture: Emma Brasier

‘I’m trapped in a boy’s body’: 11yo trans girl on school, sport and bullying

Katie is 11 and last year came out as transgender. It’s been a tough journey and her mum has a very pointed message to critics concerned about trans kids playing sport.

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See why one Aussie school leader is ‘100pc done with parents’

It’s only halfway through the year, but a school leader is “100 per cent done with parents” making excuses for their badly behaved children. Read the epic spray here.

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