Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right

In the wake of Australia's controversial social media ban — introduced by the federal government as a measure to protect children — questions remain about how a child under 14 can be barred from p...

Former defence minister’s application to have former staffer bankrupted has been approved in a Western Australian court

The Northern Territory's refusal to let United Nations inspectors enter its prisons has intensified nationwide concern over detention conditions, prompting Senator Lidia Thorpe to accuse the governmen...

Western Australia's first recorded death in youth detention was predictable, a coroner has found, finding the care of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd was "inhumane" and "reminiscent of 19th century jails". WARNING: This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

Victoria Police says its officers are trained to respond to a person’s behaviour, not their background. The numbers tell a different story.

Sales of gas-only vehicles are down by 31% from their peak, while electric vehicle sales are growing rapidly worldwide, largely due to China.

Between 2025 and 2030, the world is expected to build nearly 4,600 gigawatts of renewables — almost double the amount built over the previous five-year…

Linda Reynolds is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the events that followed Brittany Higgins’s rape in her office. The following is a precis of the former minister’s actions over that time.

Imagine that a young woman is raped in your office. You are a minister and she is the most junior member of your staff. In the footage you see later, she is too drunk to put on her shoes. She walks barefoot through the parliament with her colleague, who you also employ.

She was in labor, fainted, and woke up in handcuffs. In El Salvador, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in the last 26 years after having obstetric emergencies, like miscarriages and stillbirths...

Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.

A brief list of things that can be said about Linda Reynolds without defaming her…

Decades after her debut, Soraya Montenegro remains an iconic telenovela villain. In this episode, we unpack her lasting impact—and what it reveals about villainy, womanhood, and human evolution.

Australian scientists say assassin spiders are a ‘window into the past’ – and many invertebrates face a similarly precarious situation For the last five weeks, Jane Ogilvie has searched a patch of dense shrub shaded by sugar gums on Kangaroo Island in South Australia for a surviving relic from 150m years ago. The critically endangered Kangaroo Island assassin spider’s only known home is in the north-west of the island, where this Jurassic-era spider hides out in moist clumps of leaf litter. Continue reading...