New Opal card to fund school trips

By EducationHQ News Team
Published October 29, 2015

The NSW Government will introduce a new Opal card for more than 420,000 students commuting to and from school.

SYDNEY, Oct 29 - The card, to be given to students at the beginning of the 2016 school year, will ...

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New Opal card to fund school trips

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