The ACT's Chief Health Officer Dr Kerryn Coleman said schools would need to consider the practical implementation of her advice and make their own decisions.
Labor says its proposed crackdown on multi-national tax avoidance would deliver an almost $2 billion boost to the budget bottom line over the next four years.
Coalition junior minister Zed Seselja has stopped just short of throwing his support behind a conservative third-party smear campaign against his Senate contender David Pocock.
Watch: Government promises and grants from "the guys in Canberra" have come thick and fast over the decades, but Patrice and Clay Clear have seen zero action.
Australia's inflation rate has soared to its highest level in 20 years with supply constraints and the Ukrainian conflict adding price pressures within the economy.
Analysis: With climate-fuelled disasters adding to the public's anxiety about climate change, Labor had the impetus to pursue an ambitious agenda. Instead, it went safe, writes Dan Jervis-Bardy.
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases against her.
Keepers at Mogo Wildlife Park are celebrating the arrival of a new lion cub. Born last week to second-time mum Chitwa and male lion Baaku, the new cub is the baby brother of two-year-old Phoenix.
