News Wrap Up (Page 7)

Six-year-old students in Australia are set to face literacy and numeracy tests after studies found that Australian children were falling behind. Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has appointed a five-person panel

Two children and a teenager were hospitalised after being stung by an irukandji jellyfish in north Queensland. A seven-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy were airlifted to Cairns Hospital at 6pm on

A father was charged with drug driving on a jet ski after he ran over his nine-year-old son and killed him on Mount Isa lake in November last year. Shane

At least 40 children from one school have been struck down by a gastro bug yesterday. Two of those students have been taken to hospital as doctors warn that the

A three-year-old girl was rescued after being trapped inside an automated portable toilet for over an hour on Monday. Hannah Hoyne was with her nanny and two sisters, aged five and

A mother has given birth to a baby boy weighing over six kilograms, more than twice the size of an average newborn.  Natashia Corrigan, from Preston, was not expecting such

A mother has warned others to taste test their kids’ medicines after her three-year-old daughter felt a burning sensation in her throat after a dose of Nurofen for Children. Alicia Holder, from

A Chinese government official says that since implementing the government’s new two-child policy, which allows couples to have two children instead of one, the country’s birthrates rose to its highest level

At least nine out of ten backyard swimming pools in Sydney do not meet pool safety standards, with one council even recording a noncompliance rate of 98 per cent. This comes

A five-year-old girl, who has a rare disease, has featured in an open letter to the Prime Minister in an appeal to make medicinal cannabis more accessible. Katelyn Lambert suffers from Dravet

The family of a three-year-old boy who nearly drowned in a backyard pool has warned about the dangers of cheap floaties. Grandmother Irena Ekes has labelled a cheap flotation ring or a

A six-year-old girl was rushed to hospital after falling out of a second-storey window onto concrete in Sydney’s northwest. Rescuers were called and CareFlight’s rapid response helicopter immediately went to a street in

Four of the six children allegedly responsible for fires at three shopping centres in southeast Queensland, have been charged. Four children, aged between 10 and 13, have been charged with several offences

An Australian mother and her three sons have been rescued after sending a Facebook message to their family saying they were lost in a snowy mountain in Japan. The mother, in