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Craig Butt

Craig Butt

Craig Butt is the National Data Editor of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Students at Carey Baptist Grammar School, where PE is being studied by an equal number of male and female students.

VCE gender gap: How boys and girls are closing the school subject divide

While boys are still dominating STEM subjects and girls are outperforming in the humanities, it’s physical education that’s bringing students together.

  • Caroline Schelle and Craig Butt

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Greater Brisbane’s worst spot for traffic crashes: a roundabout under the M1 between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Our worst roundabout has 12 entrances and exits, and is pitch black at night

There have been almost 50 crashes in three years at the “Bin Chicken Roundabout”.

  • Felicity Caldwell and Craig Butt
The budget in charts.

How exactly is your money being spent? Five charts that really explain the budget

Here are the charts that tell you the budget’s outlook for households and the economy.

  • Clancy Yeates and Craig Butt
Ringwood Secondary College is among the top 10 schools that offer the most VCE subjects in the state. Principal Rosina Fotia alongside students Miranda Wainright (left) and Liam Groseclos (right).

‘Not all about chasing ATARs’: VCE subjects show a clear public-private divide

A new analysis of enrolment data by this masthead reveals not only a gap in the number of courses on offer, but the subjects themselves.

  • Jackson Graham and Craig Butt
The war in the Middle East is threatening the state government’s reliance on economic growth to drive down Victoria’s burgeoning debt pile.

Iran war hits Victoria’s economic outlook. And it could get worse

The state government’s reliance on economic growth to drive down Victoria’s burgeoning debt pile is under threat as the war in the Middle East forces a downgrade to economic forecasts.

  • Patrick Hatch and Craig Butt
Trams on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, are slowed down by vehicles - an issue found across the network.

The slowest trams in Melbourne revealed, where it’s almost quicker to walk

Melbourne has the world’s largest tram network but also one of the slowest as carriages battle with cars, buses and pedestrians for priority. See where your tram route ranks.

  • Patrick Hatch and Craig Butt
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Burglars are targeting Melbourne’s upmarket neighbourhoods in record numbers.

Luxury cars and ‘pick lists’: The burglary boom hitting Melbourne’s elite postcodes

One council area in Melbourne’s east experienced a nearly eightfold increase in aggravated burglaries in the past decade.

  • Caroline Schelle and Craig Butt
Where migrants settle in Brisbane.

They come from around the world. Which migrants are choosing Brisbane over Sydney and Melbourne?

What is the most common overseas country of birth in your suburb? Search our interactive map.

  • Marissa Calligeros and Craig Butt
Steve and Nicole Shaw with their sons Harry (Y8) and Fraser (Y6) and Oliver (Y10)

‘Missed the boat’: Why the race for private school spots now starts in primary

Two-thirds of year 6 students attended a Victorian state school last year. But once students reach year 7, things change dramatically.

  • Bridie Smith and Craig Butt
Brett Collison, the director of junior school at Xavier College, with students who travel home on school buses.

Families are being priced out of these Melbourne suburbs. The schools are shrinking

Schools in some of Melbourne’s most affluent suburbs are being forced to source students from right across the metropolitan area.

  • Jackson Graham and Craig Butt