Declining WA year 12 results prompt new calls for release of overdue review
Turning to education news first, and the number of year 12 public school students successfully meeting graduation requirements has fallen to its lowest level in nine years.
State budget figures show just 78.8 per cent of year 12s in government schools achieved a WA Certificate of Education last year.
The target was 83 per cent.
That figure has prompted Opposition Education Minister Liam Staltari to call on the government to release its “overdue response” to the Pathways to Post-School Success Review.
Across the nation and around the world
Here’s what’s making headlines today:
- Pauline Hanson launched a fiery crusade against tax hikes, Labor’s $250 income offset and the “Canberra bubble” before having her budget reply speech cut off mid-sentence for exhausting her allocated speaking time.
- Many off-the-plan apartments have not made significant gains on resale, experts said, as the property type comes into focus after this week’s budget.
- A senior British cabinet minister has quit the government to clear the way for a leadership challenge against Prime Minister Keir Starmer after months of internal dissent and a catastrophic loss for the party in elections last week.
- Welcomed to Beijing with a red carpet ceremony of military pageantry and pomp, US President Donald Trump was effusive with praise for his Chinese counterpart and “great leader” Xi Jinping, who used the first talks of their two-day summit to send a warning about Taiwan.
- Sam Kerr is to leave Chelsea at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down on one of the most brilliant, trophy-laden careers in Women’s Super League football.
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Making headlines, a woman who sent the WA police commissioner and Governor two “deranged, irrational” affidavits claiming awareness of a galactic consciousness and asserting her right to ignore the state’s laws is fighting the police’s decision to cancel her firearm licence after a series of raids on so-called sovereign citizens.
May-Ring Chen, 69, appeared in the State Administrative Tribunal on Thursday – you can read more about her appearance here.
Residents in Perth’s northern suburbs still facing a swathe of anti-social and dangerous behaviour stemming from the use of illegal e-rideables are calling for more police resourcing to be deployed to manage the situation.
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