The 14-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed a student at the University of Sydney was accused of planning a mass shooting less than a year ago, it has emerged. The teenager had allegedly threatened to carry out a terrorist attack but the charges were dropped on mental health grounds, according toContinue Reading
Shocking footage has shown an out of control truck narrowly miss hitting people standing on the footpath before crashing into a school. The people can be seen jumping aside as the truck careens past them. In fact, the truck left a trail of destruction ploughing through 19 cars before itContinue Reading
A school in Sydney’s west has been placed in lockdown and a teacher has been injured after a student allegedly arrived on campus armed with a knife. Chifley College Dunheved campus in St Marys went into lockdown just before 1.30pm on Thursday. “To our school community, we are currently inContinue Reading
The head of an influential schools union has taken aim at two high-profile Sydney private schools, accusing them of “disingenuous, bleating victimhood”. NSW Teachers Federation president Henry Rajendra will use his speech at Friday’s 2024 Principal’s Conference to lash the “entrenched” privilege of private schools, and make specific reference toContinue Reading
The principal of one of Australia’s most prestigious boys’ schools has resigned days after an ABC investigation exposed an alleged toxic culture at the school. Nicholas Sampson, the headmaster of the elite Sydney school, Cranbrook, has stepped aside following fresh allegations he kept a teacher on at the school evenContinue Reading
Star ABC investigative journalist Louise Milligan has revealed the staggering number of legal threats she has received ahead of a Four Corners program on a prestigious Sydney boys school. The public broadcaster’s flagship journalism program is hours away from airing an episode on Cranbrook School, an elite private school inContinue Reading
Paul Thijssen was a psychopath who “knew exactly what he was doing” when he took a hammer to a school and murdered Sydney water polo instructor Lilie James, a top criminal psychologist has claimed. A former student at St Andrew’s Cathedral school where the murder took place last week, Thijssen’sContinue Reading
The grandmother of a woman found dead at an elite Sydney school has spoken out for the first time after her granddaughter’s death. Lilie James, 21, was found dead with severe head wounds in the gym bathroom of Sydney’s private St Andrew’s Cathedral School on Wednesday night. Her grandmother BarbaraContinue Reading
The principal of a prestigious Sydney school where a water polo instructor was found dead has issued a powerful message about the “horrors of evil” in a letter to parents, as police recovered a body on Friday. Lilie James, a 21-year-old staff member at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney’sContinue Reading
The young water polo instructor found dead inside a prestigious Sydney school’s gym bathroom was allegedly killed with a hammer before she was discovered by police in a “confronting” scene. Lilie James, a staff member at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney’s CBD, was found with “serious head injuries” byContinue Reading