Parents "should plan now" for South Australia's first public schools teachers' strike in 10 years, the Australian Education Union says.Teachers are voting this week on whether to walk off the job next Thursday morning, November 29.AEU state president Howard Spreadbury said enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations started at the beginning of the year and the State Government had rejected almost all of the union's demands.In particular, the union wants reduced class sizes, more resources for special-needs children, more incentives for teachers to work in the country and more permanency for workers."They want to take these matters out of the next enterprise...

ABC North West WA By Kendall O'Connor A group of elderly residents who are facing eviction from their remote Western Australian homes have hit back at the council behind the move.The Port Hedland residents, some who had lived in their properties for more than a decade, said the accommodation on offer — which was 20 kilometres away — was too isolating.Hendrick 'Jacko' Scheltens said he did not sleep for two nights when he and 16 other residents were given the news that they had to leave.He has lived in his Pilbara unit for 15 years."I thought I was going to...