Providing the best early education and care for society’s youngest children raises a complex set of issues, but all are solvable by harnessing the intelligence and thoughts of the wider community, former prime minister Julia Gillard says. Gillard has opened the first public hearings in South Australia’s Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care….

Former United States President Barack Obama will visit Australia in March 2023 to share his leadership experience in Sydney and Melbourne. Obama, the 44th American president who served in the White House from 2009 to 2017, has been invited to a series of paid speeches held by business event organiser Growth Faculty to “discuss strength…

Commentary Following the 1987 Australian federal election, then Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke appointed senior party figure and powerbroker Senator Graham Richardson as minister for the environment. At that time, the Hawke Government sought to claim the “green agenda” against the perceived growing influence of the Greens in Australian politics. Richardson’s period as environment minister was…

LONDON—International governments and companies have pledged more than $4 billion to educate 175 million children around the world and prevent a generation’s chances being blighted by the coronavirus pandemic. The commitments came Thursday at a conference in London hosted by Britain, Kenya, and funding organization the Global Partnership for Education. Former Australian Prime Minister Julia…