Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin Additionally, about 31 per cent of all Australian schools ... Roberts and Woodroffe Primary School principal Kristy West as swimming lessons for all NT primary school ...

New figures show shocking numbers of Australian kids are not achieving basic swimming skills. Royal Life Saving Australia data estimates 48% of Year 6 students cannot swim 50 metres and tread water ...

with $150 allocated to each NT primary school student. The Northern Territory education minister has suggested remote school students can take swimming lessons in large blow-up pools "from Clark ...

Primary-aged students struggle to meet benchmarks and swimming abilities were not improving by much in high school ... while the cost of private swimming lessons wasn't helping, Dr Scarr said.

Water safety advocates are calling for urgent action after research found nearly half of Australian ... lifesaving lessons for high school students and investing in more public swimming ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Lord Mayor Nick Reece is backing away from a promise to provide 50,000 free swimming lessons each year and $2 swimming pool entry ...