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Todays Word
spire,, n.1 /spa(r)/ Forms: 1, 4?5 spir, 3? spire, 4, 6?7 spier (7 spiere), 5?6 spyre. [OE. spír, = WFris. spier, NFris. spîr, MDu. and Du. spier, MLG. spîr, spyer, spyr, MHG. spîr (G. spier, spiere), Da. spire, MSw. and Sw. spira, sprout, shoot, sprig, etc. Cf. SPEAR n.2]
What's in a number?
3 (Herald Sun)
Victoria's power struggle rests on three independent MPs who plan to put Jeff Kennett and Steve Bracks to a test of good government.
Headline News
NAT: Abstudy overhaul blasted (The Australian)
Almost 80 per cent of indigenous students at tertiary institutions would be worse off under the Federal Government's overhaul of Abstudy, a report to be released today warns.VIC: King hit costs school mum $47,000 (Herald Sun)
A mother injured in a punch-up at a private school was yesterday awarded $47,000 damages.QLD: Expert backs calls for extra school year (Courier Mail)
Students in Queensland should complete a compulsory extra year of pre-school education, according to the man responsible for driving school reform in the state.SA: Teacher crisis warning (The Mercury)
The Australian Education Union says a looming teacher-shortage crisis in Tasmania will be exacerbated unless the State Government acts quickly on a pre-election promise to bring wages more into line with mainland teachers.NAT: Low income students denied allowance: survey (ABC)
A new survey has found many young students from low income families are missing out on the youth allowance because of the parental means test.WA: Compulsory high school fees now a reality (ABC)
Compulsory high school fees are now a reality after the Western Australian Legislative Council last night passed an amendment by one vote on the issue.QLD: Guidelines to ensure clean drinking water for rural schools (ABC)
New guidelines are about to be put in place to ensure all schools in rural and remote Queensland have access to a clean drinking water supply.ROMANIA: Compulsory maths causes walk-out (BBC)
Schoolchildren in Romania have staged protests against having to take maths exams.UK: Boost for school partnership scheme (BBC)
The government has announced more money for partnership projects between state and independent schools.
IT News
Labour locked in Web tangle (The Mercury)
Within 20 minutes of the Liberal Opposition revealing that plans for a jail at Deloraine had been posted on the World Wide Web, the main entry point to the Web site was cut off.New fast Net link may yet be a flop (Sydney Morning Herald)
High-speed Internet access via much-hyped asynchronous direct subscriber line technology may be further off than expected, despite yesterday's unveiling of the first ADSL modems.Hey MS: What'd EDU wrong? (Wired)
A college student caves in to Microsoft and alters his microsoftedu.com Web site. But the school project still lambastes the Redmond software giant...
Sydney 2000
House-full sign at the Olympics (The Australian)
Australians who applied for Olympic tickets faced an agonising wait after revelations yesterday that premier events, including all athletics finals and swimming and gymnastics sessions, had been over-ordered.Dream team acts to upstage the Games (The Australian)
Robyn Nevin will come into her first full year as Sydney Theatre Company's artistic director in 2000 with a fresh creative team and five new Australian works.Olympic deals still spiralling (The Australian)
Fresh documents relating to the South Australian Government's two-year $378,000 consultancy to former Australian Grand Prix chief Sam Ciccarello reveal he was originally hired for only 90 days at $770 a day.
News Specials
Army to call for recruits (The Australian)
Australian troops in East Timor will be reinforced by hundreds of reserves and new recruits as part of a strategy that highlights a prime ministerial pledge to become Washington's peacekeeping "deputy" in Asia.The dole brigade (Herald Sun)
Young people could be doing military service as part of the work for the dole scheme in a radical shake-up being pushed by some federal MPs.Diana Ross arrested (Associated Press)
American singer Diana Ross was arrested today at Heathrow Airport after allegedly assaulting a security officer, news agencies said.