Parents have slammed a secondary school for introducing a puffer jacket featuring the pride and Australian Aboriginal flags. Cheltenham Secondary College in Melbourne's southeast first offered the ...

That jumps to $2547 for each primary school child and $4793 for secondary students — a national spend of $12.9 billion — when other costs such as tuition fees and school camps are factored in.

Overall, families in 2025 are expected to spend $13.6 billion on schooling costs, including uniforms, tuition, technology and excursions.

Along with concrete quads, uniforms are an integral part of Australian high schools. Even so, Netflix's Heartbreak High chose to follow the original '90s series, ditching ties and blazers for more ...

In fact, discarded uniforms are just part of the burgeoning clothing waste problem. According the Australia Institute, the average Australian buys around 56 new items each year, with more than 200 ...

Every day, Wayne Muir and his partner Michelle Maxey face the trauma of having to send their 15-year-old son Ross to school without any lunch.