Compulsory attendance requirements
School education in Australia is compulsory between certain ages as specified by state or territory legislation. Depending on the state or territory, and date of birth of the child, school is compulsory from the age of five to six to the age of fifteen to seventeen.
In the ACT, NSW, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia, children are legally required to attend school from the age of six years old, until the minimum leaving age. In Tasmania, the compulsory school starting age is 5 years old. However, most children commence the preliminary year of formal schooling, in Pre-Year 1, between four and a half and five and a half years of age, variously called kindergarten (sometimes called Year K), reception, preparation (also abbreviated as "prep") and transition.
As of 2010, the national apparent retention rate (ARR), a measure of student engagement that provides an indicator of the success of education systems in keeping students in school beyond the minimum leaving age, was 78 per cent for all full-time students in Year 12.
Australian Time Zones
Australia has three time zones; Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST = GMT +10), Central (ACST = GMT +9 ½) and Western (AWST = GMT +8). The Eastern seaboard of Australia, is ten hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT +10) from early April to early October (Autumn, Winter and Early Spring months).
Australia also uses "Daylight Saving".
In the south eastern states (NSW, ACT, VIC and TAS) AEST becomes Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT), and clocks are advanced one hour to GMT +11 to observe Daylight Saving, from the first Sunday in October and ending on the first Sunday in April, covering from mid Spring throught to early Autum.
The NT, QLD and WA don't observe daylight saving.
In late Spring and all of Summer, New South Wales operates on Daylight Saving (AEDT) while the state of Queensland remains on Eastern Standard Time (AEST), creating a one hour time difference. Visitors to our region: north east New South Wales - the Northern Rivers of NSW, and the Gold Coast region of SE QLD, should keep this in mind when making appointments and touring the region, especially for airline flights to and from Gold Coast Airport (which operates on QLD time), retail and commercial opening hours, and events which start early in the day, for example - Weekend and Farmers Markets.
At the NSW/QLD border on Boundary Street, and also Point Danger Lighthouse, you can literally hop backward and forward in time (depending on your viewpoint), and also stand astride the state border and be in two timezones at the same place, thanks to this anomoly.
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