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Free online school tutoring comes to Wollongong

Wollongong City Libraries has recently signed up to a service called Your Tutor, which is set to make life significantly easier for school students and their families. The service is live-time online help for any homework question from late primary ... >> view original

Hire fees may put Wollongong Eisteddfod at risk

Massive hiring fees may force the committee of the Wollongong BlueScope WIN Eisteddfod to consider alternative venues in the future, chairperson Tony Purdon, who is battling kidney cancer said. Mr Purdon said the committee, which two years ago had ... >> view original

Former Brisbane teacher jailed for having sex with intellectually impaired student

A former female teacher in Brisbane has been jailed for seducing an intellectually impaired student and starting a lengthy sexual relationship. The then 23-year-old special education teacher invited the student to her home in 2011 and seduced him after ... >> view original

Man choked housemate over dirty dishes

The Wynnum Magistrates Court heard a man dumped the dirty items outside his housemate's room, sparking an altercation. A man has been slapped with a jail term for violently choking his female housemate after she failed to wash up her dirty dishes in a ... >> view original

Man remains in custody over Epping body in a bin death

A Korean man will remain behind bars after being charged with murdering his flatmate, whose body was found stuffed in a green waste bin. Tai Jin Park did not apply for bail when his case was raised in Fairfield Local Court on Thursday morning. >> view original

Australian republic push: Joe Hockey didn't consult Tony Abbott

Mitchell Bingemann has spent the past decade reporting on the happenings of the technology and telecommunications sectors in Australia. He joined the Australian in July 2008 as part of the paper's award winning IT section before taking up the business ... >> view original

Gayby Baby: Education Minister Adrian Piccoli and Premier Mike Baird ban film ...

NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli and Premier Mike Baird banned the screening of a documentary about children with gay parents without watching the film, even though it screened at Parliament House on the night before the extraordinary ministerial ... >> view original

Shaun McNeil jailed for at least 7.5 years for one-punch death of Daniel Christie

Shaun McNeil has been sentenced to 10 years jail with a non-parole period of seven and a half years for the one-punch killing of Daniel Christie in Kings Cross on New Year's Eve, 2013. McNeil showed no emotion on Thursday as Supreme Court Justice ... >> view original

Dyson Heydon 'dramatic revelations' must be explained, says Shorten

Jared Owens is a political reporter based in Canberra. He has previously worked at The Australian's Sydney and Brisbane bureaus. https://plus.google.com/116039583906467076146. Dyson Heydon will rule on the union application tomorrow. Picture: Adam ... >> view original

Masa's killer admits rape, crime spree

Sean Christian Price has pleaded guilty to the murder of Melbourne teen Masa Vukotic. (Supplied). fteAPGd. The man who stabbed a Melbourne teen to death in a random attack near her home has admitted raping another woman two days later. >> view original