Agency in charge of national literacy and numeracy tests blames principals and teachers for pressuring students to do well on the controversial exams.
After Jolie, women less shy to investigate mastectomies
There has been a huge surge in phone calls to the Cancer Council helpline, since Angelina Jolie's breast cancer preventive surgery.
Five spending cuts that will boost your savings
How frugal are you? Presumably, you are not about to buy a yacht. Here are five more specific expenses to cut.
Buyers ready, willing for Abeles
The contents of a 'Mad Men' mansion once home to Sir Peter Abeles are being sold. Ashtrays are everywhere, as is leopard skin.
Daily horoscopes: Wednesday, June 19
Read Alison Moroney's daily stars for Wednesday, June 19, 2013.
Kept in the dark
It seems to be omni-present yet scientists have little idea of what dark matter is.
Helping handful of cash in troubled times
When it comes to super, what goes in can't come out until your 65th birthday rolls around - except when dire circumstances mean there's no alternative but to tap the retirement pot.
The trouble with men
Are unhealthy habits robbing men of testosterone?
Meet the 'fitness whisperer'
Massages, buttery toast, long baths and less workouts... It sounds too good to be true, but Sydney's newest fitness guru says his regime can change your body.
Are you too ashamed to lose weight?
Is the way you think keeping you fat?