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Friday, March 5, 2021

Why educators are rethinking the importance of handwriting

How good is your handwriting? And did you ever learn cursive writing?

Times have certainly changed in our classrooms, the part-replacement of pens and pencils with keyboards has seen our educators have a rethink on the importance of handwriting.

Australian schools now even have the option to type the writing response in the Naplan test.

Rainbow Path In Australia Commemorates Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage

It’s been more than three years since Australia voted to legalize same-sex marriage. To commemorate the historic 2017 decision that gave Aussie LGBTQ couples the right to marry, the country’s largest city commissioned a giant rainbow road in a park as a permanent tribute.

Spanning 90 meters (or about 295 feet), the painting of the rainbow road was completed just in time for Sydney’s annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebration.

Take a look at the rainbow path in this tweet from the City of Sydney .

The placement of the rainbow path is meaningful. It’s located at the site inside of Sydney’s Prince Albert Park where same-sex marriage supporters gathered together on Nov. 15, 2017, to hear the results of Australia’s marriage equality postal survey.

The best new tech gadgets coming in 2021

This week we'd usually be in Las Vegas, bringing you all the latest and greatest technology from the Consumer Electronics Show - the world's biggest tech event. COVID-19 means CES couldn't go ahead as it normally would, but we've managed to gather all the best gadgets from the biggest brands.

Man's advice to state governments amid easing of border restrictions

Hundreds of families are now able to travel home after Victoria's border measures officially eased today. But a teacher trapped in New South Wales after visiting his father in palliative care said while he's relieved restrictions have eased

'Nothing has changed': Leila McKinnon's strong message to beauty industry regulators

Beauty and therapy treatments are becoming more popular and more intense, but regulation hasn't kept up with the technology. In the wrong hands these high tech machines that zap wrinkles, freeze fat, or aid muscle recovery, can be incredibly dangerous.

The day evil visited a cafe in Sydney

"Australia's moment with terror." That is how 60 Minutes reporter Liz Hayes describes the deadly Lindt Cafe siege six years on. On the morning of December 15, 2014, a lone gunman held hostage ten customers

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