Education Commissioner Wendy McDonnell has been tasked with improving teaching and learning in public schools almost four years after a team of experts raised the alarm about standards.
Mrs McDonnell ...
The daughter of alleged elder abuse victim “Auntie Em” is appealing a magistrate’s judgement which found she owed $25,000 to a caregiver who looked after her mother.
Rosamund Hayward, 53, of Upland St...
A defence lawyer yesterday branded an alleged sex assault victim “a liar and a thief” as she recounted his criminal past.
Shade Subair revealed the convictions of 21-year-old former office clerk Mr X ...
Unionised Belco workers have revealed they rejected a pay freeze because it came with no assurances on job security.
The Electricity Supply Trade Union (ESTU) issued a statement yesterday which said t...
A former office clerk was pushed onto a bed and pinned down by his manager before being sexually assaulted, he told a court yesterday.
Mr X, 21, who claims the older man attacked him repeatedly betwee...
Government should get rid of an overseas contractor hired to help revamp the bus timetable and let drivers devise a new one, according to union officials.
They say tens of thousands of taxpayers' doll...
A 21-year-old who claims he was subjected to a string of sexual assaults by a much older man while still a teenager told a court yesterday he could not “forget or forgive”.
Mr X was giving evidence on...
A young father who claimed he was kicked in the face by a policeman has been found not guilty of assaulting the same officer.
But Troy Smith, 29, did behave in an “angry, aggressive and profane” manne...
A teacher who was hit in the head with a cricket bat by her fiancé’s ex sobbed in court yesterday as she told how the woman had “abused” her for four years.
Tara Burchall broke down in tears after Aud...
A former office clerk who claims he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by his manager told a court yesterday he had “wanted to kill” the much older man.
Mr X describing two of the ten assaults he claim...
