Aboriginal enrolments to university have doubled in the past decade, but financial challenges result in many Indigenous students abandoning their studies after their first year. Warumungu and Warlmanpa man 23-year-old Ethan Taylor is one of the success stories. He is headed from Melbourne University to Oxford to study political philosophy on a fully funded Charlie […]

Chancellor warns of ‘pressure’ on public finances as Government racks up another £4.9bn of borrowing in July despite raking in more tax – as spending and interest on £2.4trillion debt mountain rise Ministers today warned of ‘pressure’ on the public finances after the government racked up another £4.9billion of borrowing in July. Despite the tax […]

MASS walkouts sparked travel chaos today as Tube and train strikes ground commuters to a halt. Huge crowds were seen queuing for buses in London while traffic built on roads outside the capital first thing. Around 10,000 members of the the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are staging a 24-hour walkout in an ongoing row […]

Florida student on a road trip through rural Alabama with girlfriend is shot dead by woman who pretended to be a stranded motorist so she could rob them at gunpoint: ‘Killer’ was living in a woodland camp with ARMED children Adam Simjee, 22, was shot to death in an Alabama national forest after he pulled […]

A nine-month fishing ban for favoured recreational species like snapper and dhufish could be in place by summer on an 800-kilometre stretch of water from Kalbarri to Augusta as the West Australian government contemplates drastic action to stop a decline in demersal species. The proposal angered the recreational fishing lobby, which labelled the idea unacceptable […]

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Pupils will profit from tougher exams Not since the Second World War has a year group of pupils weathered such a horrendously disrupted education as those receiving their A-level results yesterday. Covid closed their schools for almost a year, forcing them to endure the peculiarities of remote learning, and their GCSEs were […]

Liz Truss may have £15 billion LESS than she expected to fuel tax cuts if she becomes PM: Economists warn that the government’s headroom will be HALVED in next economic forecast Liz Truss may find herself with billions less than she expected to fuel tax cuts The Conservative leadership hopeful is relying on £30billion of […]

THE grandchild of a tragic mobility scooter rider stabbed to death has paid tribute to the "lovely" busker. Thomas O'Halloran, 87, was attacked in a "shocking act" of "unprovoked violence" in Greenford, West London on Tuesday. Speaking from her home in Westgate on Sea, near Margate, Cindy O’Neill, 37, one his grandchildren, paid a heart-breaking […]

A global shortage in the supply of a vaccine being used to protect against severe illness for monkeypox has spurred the U.S. to negotiate new terms with the sole manufacturer, Bavarian Nordic. The White House Monkeypox Response Team told reporters that for its next order — 2.5 million doses — the U.S. has asked Bavarian […]

We want Boris! Most Tory party members didn’t want Boris Johnson out of office… and nearly half say they would vote for him if he was named on leadership ballot 55 per cent of Conservative members didn’t want Boris out, said a YouGov poll  Many believe he would make a better leader than Liz Truss […]