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Bridie Smith

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
Latest publication
Sep 13, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Age
Top 10K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 24, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Bridie Smith

    ‘We want little boys to go and young men to return’: Scotch College’s bold vision for the next generation (opens the original)

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    Jason Potoi Andrew can still remember arriving at Scotch College for the first time. It was 1984, and he was touring the school that his father, David, had graduated from two decades earlier. The pair were soon approached by Ron “Chesty” Bond, a revered classics teacher and vice principal who worked at the school for close to four decades and was a favourite among generations of boys who gave him a nickname that stuck for life. “He came up to Dad and said, ‘Oh, David Andrew, I remember you. I ta

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Bridie Smith

    ‘Come and have another go’: The private schools offering second-chance scholarships (opens the original)

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    The mark level crossing supervisor Terry Bux left on the St Michael’s Grammar community after he died unexpectedly is both big and small. There is a tiny indent in the concrete render of the school’s front fence in St Kilda where he used to rest his neon orange stop sign until his death from a heart condition in 2024. The depression was formed over the 33 years Bux shepherded students across busy Chapel Street, now colloquially known as “Terry’s Crossing”. Bux’s bigger legacy will be an all-expe

  3. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Bridie Smith

    Age scoops the nominations at the Kennedy Awards (opens the original)

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    The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have been recognised with 21 finalist nominations in this year’s Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. Named in honour of the late Herald crime reporter Les Kennedy, Kennedy Foundation chairperson Carl Dumbrell said the high calibre of the work made selecting finalists from the 900 entries a challenge for the judges. Reflecting the breadth of talent at The Age, nominations were spread across multiple categories. Investigative reporter Aisha Dow was tw

  4. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Bridie Smith, Jackson Graham

    Laws failing to protect cult survivors, inquiry finds (opens the original)

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    Victoria needs new powers to criminalise coercive cult and fringe groups, according to a landmark inquiry into the harmful tactics used to recruit and control members. The parliamentary inquiry into cults and “organised fringe groups”, tabled on Wednesday, recommends the state government review options for new laws to criminalise group-based coercion and prevent someone’s consent to be in a cult from being used as a defence for coercers. It also cautions that current child and safety laws fail t

  5. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Bridie Smith

    Teacher pay dispute to drag on as negotiations stall in wake of strike (opens the original)

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    Negotiations over a fresh pay deal between the state government and public school teachers are at a stalemate following high-profile industrial action which saw some 20,000 striking teachers take to the streets on Thursday. With no meetings scheduled to resolve the deadlocked dispute, the prospect of further strikes as well as bans on teachers responding to department emails, working unpaid overtime and hosting Labor MPs at schools remain in place. Both the Australian Education Union and the gov

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