This has been mandatory for quite some time across the board in all sectors of the workforce both voluntary or otherwise. So one finds it strange that some 250 support teaching staff have been told they can no longer teach without certification. Why were they allowed to in the first place?

EACH time a GP refers me to a public hospital to see a specialist, that’s as far as it goes. Months and months pass by and still no response.

As my conditions worsen and the pain becomes unbearable, I am forced to phone the hospital to find out what’s the delay, only to be told “you have six referrals from three different GPs, all marked urgent, but you’re still not on the waiting list because the hospital hasn’t decided which category to put you in”.

My first question is why not? My second  question is why didn’t the hospital acknowledge the GP’s referral? And thirdly, what am I supposed to do (other than keep ringing an ambulance for emergency pain relief) in the meantime?

IN NSW, they have special schools. These schools have an examination to pick only the most clever students. In NSW, the schools are North Sydney boys high school, and North Sydney girls high school.

Ninety-three per cent of the chosen students do not have English as their native tongue. They are Chinese, Bangladesh, Korean and others Only 7 per cent are native Australians.

The non-English students come from rich families, who send their kids to special tutorial schools to learn how to handle the entry exams. This was revealed by a whistleblower recently.