Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher ...

In a major shake up of how reading is taught in Victoria, all grade one students will sit a new 10-minute phonics test to ...

Australia’s lower house of parliament has voted overwhelmingly to pass a landmark bill banning the use of social media by children under 16. The bill passed by the House of Representatives on ...

Australia braces for a scorching heatwave with temperatures soaring into the mid to high 40s across several states and territories this weekend and early next week. The Bureau of meteorology has ...

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Rain halted the resumption of play after lunch on day one of the third test between Australia and India in Brisbane on Saturday. Australia were 28 for no loss at the Gabba ...

What’s at stake as India face world Test champions Australia in the five-match series? Who are the key players? Al Jazeera answers. Pat Cummins of Australia and Jasprit Bumrah of India pose with ...

The Australia government’s also commissioned the UK consortium Age Check Certification Scheme to trial age verification technology, to aid efforts to keep children off social media platforms.

Australia has supported a UN resolution calling for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza, the strongest language the country has supported to date. Another resolution ...