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For more than one million Australian students, the anxious wait for their NAPLAN test results will be cut in half. On Wednesday, 1.3 million school students from nearly 10,000 schools across the nation will begin their NAPLAN examination, which tests their reading, numeracy, spelling, grammar and...

Australia’s economy expanded 0.2 per cent in the December quarter, propped up by government spending and private business investment. The quarterly lift in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ official growth measure was a touch softer than economists’ expectations of 0.3 per cent growth. On an annual basis,...