Madeleine Heffernan

<div><p>A French national has been charged after he scaled a high-rise building allegedly without safety equipment during a free-climbing stunt in Melbourne’s CBD on Tuesday morning.</p><p>Emergency services were called to an apartment building near RMIT University after reports of a man climbing the Avani Melbourne Central Residences about 7.50am.</p><p>Anthony Andolfo drew a large crowd as the 29-year-old ascended – untethered – the building’s facade.</p><p>Wearing a backpack and with a GoPro,…

Anthony Andolfo, who is in Australia on a 12-month tourist working visa, was charged with offences including reckless conduct endangering life.

The self-described tree hugger and tennis champion has embraced, climbed and talked to trees around the world, including at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

The body of the young man was discovered by a staff member opening the gates of Lyndale Secondary College in Melbourne’s south-east.

ABC’s flagship TV panel show is keen to broadcast from the G20 summit in Delhi.

The business leader and chairman of the National School Resourcing Board explains why no government will stop funding private schools, and why he doesn’t fear a recession.

The government says it is open to sparing private schools that charge students less than $13,000 a year from the impost of payroll tax.

The cost of sending a child to school, university or kinder has skyrocketed, and is one of the fastest-growing expenses on the budget of Australian families.

Devenish Primary is one of Victoria’s 10 “ghost schools” – tiny schools that are not officially shut but were stripped of teachers. But some families are fighting to keep them open.

Life is returning to a vibrant normality at Victorian university campuses, where O Week preparations are in full swing and international students are starting to return.