What do a jaffle maker, a baby safety capsule and a black box have in common?

With 3.5 million households experiencing food insecurity last year, food banks are struggling to meet demand, while some communities can’t even access them.

Two elusive fin whales have been photographed by drone as the rare species migrate north along WA's South West coastline.

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The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party, led by Lia Finocchiaro, has made no secret that it intends on doing what it wants in the NT. It lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 10 and lifte...

Governments at all levels often assume arts funding is not electorally popular. New data shows they are wrong.

Smart glasses could be prohibited in Commonwealth workplaces as the government consults on new rules for Australia's growing AI sector.

A cycle of frescoes by Italian 14th-century master Giotto, depicting key moments in the life of St. Francis of Assisi, has been unveiled after a four-year restoration.

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Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

Meta has gifted itself the right to photos, video, and voice that its smart glasses send to its systems via partnerships in Australia with Ray-Ban and Oakley, including clips taken deliberately and th...

Phillip Island’s ‘iconic’ little penguins get first bird flu vaccinations in what is thought to be largest program of its kind * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than 1,000 little penguins have received their first dose of bird flu vaccine in Victoria, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds. Catherine Basterfield, the chief executive of Phillip Island Nature Parks, said vaccinations began early last week and were ramping up. Continue reading...

The fashion industry's toxic petrochemical dyes often end up in oceans. Could colours be 'brewed' from nature instead?

‘High coral cover is evidence of recovery and resilience, not evidence that the disturbances causing mortality didn’t happen’, scientist says

Healthcare’s contribution to climate change is well established. The question now is how the health system responds. This week, a

Canberra Playbook is your early-morning guide to what’s driving the day in Australian politics. Non-partisan, insider-led and obsessively close to the action, it delivers the scoops, the policy detail...

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We're being positioned as more than the driller, digger and exporter. We're being lined up as the Asia-Pacific's dumping ground for CO2; geology for hire to help cook the books. Australia isn't doing ...

Es sind sonderbare Bestellungen: Massenweise werden in Antiquariaten innerhalb kürzester Zeit online Ladenhüter bestellt. Dahinter stecken vermutlich Firmen, die ihre KI trainieren. Nicht nur Buchhänd...

Institutions should matter more to us. Pauline Hanson’s Trumpian plan is to undermine or destroy all that is attractive about living in this country, attacking the very fabric of our society.

As trust in civic life shrinks, Australia needs more joiners: people who volunteer, give and take part in local groups that turn strangers into neighbours.

On the face of it, Hanson is right that the 2021 census reported 872,000 people spoke English either “not well” or “not at all”. But that number hides details that make Hanson’s claim highly misleadin...

It takes courage to host an ABC live broadcast - like the Afternoon Show. It also takes courage to use Voluntary Assisted Dying, which James did so openly, just a few weeks ago, two years after a canc...

More than a year after France's famed Notre Dame reopened, an archaeological exploration going thousands of years into the history of Paris has begun just metres below the cathedral's ground floor.

Australia could raise around $17 billion a year with a 25% gas export tax – enough to put dental in Medicare or fund free childcare – but the government is choosing not to.

There is a deeper discontent in Australian society than the version One Nation is currently exploiting. What we might call an egalitarian anger exists too, a sometimes inchoate sense that the economic...