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What parents and teachers should know about non-verbal learning disability

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When my daughter was in Year 10 at a private girls’ school, I got the call that every parent dreads – a summons to the deputy’s office. My polite 15-year-old girl had no behavioural problems,...

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What is Turnbull’s take on foreign policy?

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For anyone who has been following Malcolm Turnbull’s progress as prime minister, his much-anticipated speech to the Lowy Institute contained few real surprises, other that the fact that it was inevitably preceded by an acknowledgement of events in Belgium.

On the contrary, in many ways it was business as usual, replete with the...

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