Aurukun School in Cape York, far north Queensland, closed in May this year after a series of violent episodes directed at teaching staff.

The school is one of the Cape York Academy schools operating under the stewardship of prominent Indigenous leader Noel...

Just as President John F. Kennedy famously implored Americans to ask what they might do for their country rather than vice versa, the New South Wales government’s decision to ban greyhound racing from July next year suggests an approach that asks not what animals can do for us, but what we can do for them.

Nor is NSW the only place looking at...

After an election in which voters snubbed both major parties, the campaign postmortems have been coming thick and fast. Michelle Grattan tells University of Canberra acting vice-chancellor Frances Shannon that in the longer run it’s going to be extremely difficult for Malcolm Turnbull to regroup.

“He’s got a divided party....