For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is ev...

Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced a bill to prohibit the practice in Australian prisons that advocates say violates the human rights of both mother and child

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

More than 150,000 underwater explosives have been used against seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016, according to new government data.

Craft activities, such as knitting and crochet, can have a number of brain health benefits, from helping improve attention to forging connections with others.

The state government is reviewing laws introduced to ensure taxpayers are not left footing the bill for rehabilitation, leaving one cattle farmer wondering: what happens next?

The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.

We must defend – ardently, passionately, implacably – the right of parents to decide, in whatever circumstances they find themselves

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The proposed $30 billion data centre in Queensland has a peak capacity comparable to the average power requirements of 1.5 million households. 

Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I try to travel back to 2012 – before everything on the internet was an ad

Nobel laureate among signatories who declare that silence on the slaughter of Palestinian children is a "failure of our ethical obligations”

Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s milita...

Greens defence spokesman says ‘words are just distractions’ until government takes action

Using socks as sanitary pads, wearing tampons for more than two days and stealing products from supermarkets are some of the lengths women and girls are going to in order to manage their periods.

Like all the privatised care services, the business of aged care is about property, cheap labour and public money

Petition Vic Government -Safe disposal system for H5N1 carcasses

South Australian authorities confirm the country's first H5N1 bird flu in a common dolphin, which was found dead on the Fleurieu Peninsula.