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Thousands of NSW teachers staged a 24-hour strike in Sydney in early May.

NSW, ACT Catholic school staff to strike

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese speaks to a member of advocacy group The Parenthood in Sydney last Wednesday. Picture: AAP

If it were up to me, there would be bipartisan consensus on childcare policies. Sadly, that isn't the reality.

There's a huge difference between the major parties on childcare

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell is seeking to implement a new accreditation system for teachers.

NSW teacher's wage booster simplified

HAPPY DAYS: School heavily influences young people's involvement, training or study post-school.

Right support can create bright future

Flinders University has awarded Adelaide United football star Josh Cavallo an honorary doctorate.

University honour for sports star Cavallo

Teachers have met with NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Education Minister Sarah Mitchell.

NSW premier, teachers meet to share ideas

Sydney University staff are striking for 48 hours over better pay and working conditions.

Sydney Uni staff strike for better pay

Sarah Basford Canales

Dan Jervis-Bardy

Labor's education spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, will help launch a new plan to attract teachers. Picture: Peter Lorimer 

Top school graduates would be paid up to $12,000 a year to study teaching under a Labor plan to help raise standards in the classroom.

Labor to pay top students to study teaching

Gerard Cockburn

Long-time Labor MP Tanya Plibersek (back) has played a notably small part in the party's 2022 election campaign. Picture: AAP

Labor's Tanya Plibersek has evaded questions on her low-key campaign, lack of education policy.

Tanya Plibersek dodges question on absence from Labor launch

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has called on the NSW Teachers Federation to cancel the strike.

NSW teachers' strike to go ahead

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INSIDE THE BARREL: 'Pork-barrelling' refers to the process of essentially buying votes in key seats.

There has been a lot of talk of 'pork-barrelling' this election season, especially in the context of anti-corruption. So what is pork-barrelling, and how do politicians do it?

Pork-barrelling and a federal ICAC: Who's promised what?

There are 1283 COVID-19 patients in hospital, with 46 in ICU.

NSW records 22 COVID-19 deaths as cases drop

Prime Minister Scott Morrison crashes into Luca Fauvette during an under 8s soccer training session in Devonport. Picture: Eve Woodhouse

With two days until the election, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese are campaigning furiously in marginal seats.

Live blog: Luca appears on morning TV after PM's soccer field gaffe

"My opponents think it's still OK to make fun of someone's name in their advertising," Anthony Albanese told Italian-Australians at Club Marconi in Western Sydney. Picture: AAP

Anthony Albanese has chosen a friendly setting to launch an incendiary accusation.

What's in a name? Albanese's accusation made in risky setting

Filling out the almost comically large Senate ballot paper can be a daunting task. Photo: Adam McLean

Whether you just need a quick refresher or you haven't voted before, we have you covered.

Your questions on voting for the Senate answered

Jenny Morrison, right, with the Coalition's candidate in Blair, Sam Biggins. Picture: AAP

Economy looms large for Labor and the Coalition as wages lag - but low-priced Australian wine might help

A spouse steps in as the polls tighten

Volunteers Peter Buggy, Christine Welsh, Kimone Haddon, Councillor Helen O'Neil, and Sharon Cornthwaite at Bega Valley Shire Council's National Volunteer Week celebration in Bega's Littleton Gardens. Photo: Ellouise Bailey

Bega Valley Shire Council thanks shire's dedicated volunteers with coffee and pancakes in the park

Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Picture: AAP


Australian wages have not kept pace with inflation.

Wages hit sparks new debate on cost of living election

AJ, bottom right, and his family with SES volunteer Bluey.

"[AJ] said his first word a few weeks ago and it was blue," AJ's mum Kelly said.

Watch AJ reunite with SES rescuer 'Bluey' who found him after disappearance

Anthony Albanese made his final National Press Club pitch ahead of the May 21 election with a focus on integrity and repairing the budget. Picture: Keegan Carroll

Anthony Albanese says grants decisions would become arms-length under his government.

Labor to cut $750m from pork and rort programs

PICKING THE WINNER: Australia currently has four bellwether seats with Robertson, NSW having been the longest held bellwether.

How do these four seats keep consistently predicting which party will form government?

Key seats in the 2022 Federal Election: Australia's four bellwethers

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Cold and flu-like symptoms are the highest they've been since COVID restrictions began in 2020.

Flu the roof: respiratory illness rise 'near vertical'

Labor leader Anthony Albanese. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

The polls show the race is tightening with only three days until the federal election.

As it happened: Gallagher says her 'vote will be less than what it was' due to Pocock

Hospitalisation numbers are down on yesterday.

NSW records more than 12,000 COVID cases, 14 deaths

VOTING RIGHT: A donkey vote (left) will still be counted whereas an informal vote (left) will be discarded.

What is a donkey vote? Does it differ from an informal vote? How do your preferences work?

Don't be a donkey: How to make sure your vote is counted correctly

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr (left) said departing NSW deputy premier John Barilaro wouldn't make a good sewage detective. Pictures: Sitthixay Ditthavong, Elesa Kurtz

The Chief Minister was speaking on Monday after John Barilaro announced he would quit NSW politics.

Barr 'unlikely' to be laying flowers for John Barilaro

Queenie describes her show 'Blue: The Songs of Joni Mitchell' as a love letter from one melancholy mother to another. Image credit: Kurt Sneddon. 

Star of the stage and screen, Queenie van de Zandt, celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'Blue', one of Joni Mitchell's most praised albums.

Queenie van de Zandt performs love letter to Joni Mitchell | Photos, Video

This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning until the end of the election.

Don't you hate it when former PMs call at dinner?

Social media has helped countless conspiracies flourish. Picture: Shutterstock

Social media adds a new layer to fighting misinformation.

Don't believe all you read this election

Pre-poll voting centre. Photo: Adam McLean

Female voters have been found to be three times more likely than male voters to be undecided.

Key group of wavering voters could decide the election: ANU poll

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Cardinal George Pell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty of child sexual abuse.

Chief Judge Peter Kidd has handed down his sentence after Cardinal George Pell was convicted for attacks on two choirboys in the 1990s.

George Pell sentenced to six years

STRONG: Beautiful toddler Penelope Dean is the sunshine of her mother Emily's life. The brave little girl has been treated for a rare tumour.

Most people know McHappy Day is all about a good cause. The Dean family had first-hand experience of how the charity supports children fighting serious illness.

How McHappy Day helps brave tots like Penelope

Police have charged a man arrested in Sydney's west with animal cruelty and bestiality offences.

Man arrested at NSW school for bestiality

Australian Retailers Association CEO Paul Zahra says there are 29,000-plus job vacancies in retail.

Retailers enjoy buoyant sales in April

Some 596 aged care facilities have recorded at least one COVID-19 death this year

Concern about COVID-19 deaths in aged care

Google in Russia has been under pressure for not deleting content that authorities deem illegal.

Russian Google to file for bankruptcy

Labor is set to release its election promise costings and how they will be funded.

Labor to reveal policy cost before sprint

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy first imposed martial law on February 24.

Zelenskiy to extend Ukraine martial law

Baby formula supplies are severely curtailed in the US after a factory closure and national recall.

Biden orders formula blitz amid shortage

Madeleine King has reassured energy bosses that federal Labor backs the gas industry.

Labor backs gas as part future energy mix

FRUITFUL: Paul Field combined his talents with Golden Guitar-winner Shane Nicholson and brother and Wiggles songwriter John Field in new children's musical project Peachy Keen.

Ex-Wiggles manager keen for more success in kids music

Factories have boosted production of of medical supplies in Pyongyang and nearby regions, KCNA says.

N.Korea ramps up drug, medical production

Eintracht Frankfurt have claimed a 5-4 penalty shootout win over Rangers in the Europa League final.

Eintracht Frankfurt claim Europa decider

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese is embarking on a 48-hour charm offensive in marginal seats.

Albanese launches last-minute seat blitz

"The big focus of the budget today is health," NZ Finance Minister Grant Robertson says.

Health front and centre of NZ Budget

Martin Shkreli was originally due to be released from prison in September 2023.

'Pharma Bro' Shkreli freed from prison

COAL: Six of Australia's top 10 post polluted postcodes hot coal-fired power stations or mine coal. Picture: Jonathan Carroll.


Six of the top 10 most polluted postcodes were home to coal-fired power stations or coal mines

Australia's most polluted postcodes ranked

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Abalone Narooma owner Stephen Bunney has been commerically diving for more than 33 years.
Photograph: supplied

Members of South East Climate Alliance and local commercial fishermen are warning the south coast seafood industry could be at risk from the effects of climate change if action is not taken to prevent emissions and rising temperatures.

Ocean acidification and heating a threat to our seafood industry: South East Climate Alliance

Volunteers Les Carey and Carleen Maley from Pastoral Care, Bega branch attend the SERH volunteer morning tea for Volunteer Week.

Various volunteer groups involved and associated with the South East Regional Hospital were invited to a morning tea and award presentation in recognition of their work and time for Volunteer Week.

Bega Hospital celebrates their volunteers for 2022 National Volunteer Week

Bega local: Rhonda Crowe is the nominated finalist for the Volunteer of the Year Award in the NSW Health Awards. Photo: Amandine Ahrens

The nominees in question will be finding out the results of the NSW Health Awards tomorrow, on May 19 at 12.30, through a live broadcast of the event.

South East Regional Hospital nominated as finalist in three NSW State Health Awards

Bega Valley musician and member of the Bega Valley Advocates for Timor-Leste, Dave Crowden shares a song created by Timorese musician and educator Ego Lems. Photo: Ellouise Bailey