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Speaker 1: This is the latest from your news feed. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the twentieth of June. An eight year old boy took

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Speaker 1: an illegal replica assault rifle to a Sydney school, forcing

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Speaker 1: a class into lockdown and sparking a police investigation into

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Speaker 1: how it ended up in the boy's hands. Staff at

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Speaker 1: the primary school in the city's Hills district called police

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday afternoon when teachers saw the boy take the

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Speaker 1: large item from his backpack to show friends. The Daily

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Speaker 1: Telegraph has been told the boy did not threaten anyone

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Speaker 1: and no one was harmed, but that he told his

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Speaker 1: class teacher that he took it to school to show

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Speaker 1: his mates. Elite private schools are exempting poorly performing students

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Speaker 1: from National Naplan tests in a bid to improve their

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Speaker 1: overall scores. A new research paper from the University of

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Speaker 1: Melbourne says pupils who receive low grades in nap Plan

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Speaker 1: were much more likely to be pulled out of the

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Speaker 1: tests in subsequent years, mainly at the request of their parents.

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Speaker 1: This is twice as likely to happen in private schools

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Speaker 1: than state schools, and researchers say it's consistent with them

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Speaker 1: attempting to gain the system and protect their brands. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back after this. Queensland's political leaders are bitterly divided

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Speaker 1: over the state's nuclear future, with all levels of government

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Speaker 1: at odds over the safety and economic viability of the

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Speaker 1: controversial energy plan. Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton's plan to

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Speaker 1: build seven nuclear power plants across Australia, including two in Queensland,

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Speaker 1: was rejected by Premier Stephen Miles and the LNP leader,

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Speaker 1: and cameras to catch Adelaide drivers distracted by mobile phones

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Speaker 1: has now been switched on, with hefty fines for those

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Speaker 1: court breaking the law. More than seventy thousand drivers were

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Speaker 1: called using their mobile phones in two months of testing,

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Speaker 1: with motorists given a three month grace period. We'll have

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Speaker 1: an update to your newsfeed tomorrow