Domestic violence cases 'disproportionately high' in regional areas
ABC News Australiaby Jeremy Story Carter·28d ago
A particularly chilling detail emerged in the aftermath of Molly Ticehurst's murder: her killer and ex-partner Daniel Billings threatened to exploit her small country town's lack of an after-hours...
'Australia first' senator Ralph Babet's new fashion line not made in Australia
ABC News Australiaby Jake Evans·28d ago
In short: Senator Ralph Babet's new clothing line, which includes products carrying the Australian flag, was not made in Australia.
In Australia's most incarcerated place, most inmates have a mental illness
ABC News Australiaby Tahnee Jash·28d ago
In short: A study published in Australasian Psychiatry found that almost two-thirds of NT prisoners have a mental illness.
New global definition of heart attack to improve outcomes for women
ABC News Australiaby Lauren Roberts·28d ago
In short: Australian experts welcome a new global definition of heart attack, which they say will make it easier to diagnose women.
Next few decades will be 'very difficult', influential economist warns
ABC News Australiaby Gareth Hutchens·28d ago
"The next 30 to 40 years are going to be very difficult," the influential economist Charles Goodhart warned recently.
Concerns raised over 'problematic culture' at Suncorp's debt collector
ABC News Australiaby Adelaide Miller·28d ago
Debt collector ARMA Group spent months harassing and intimidating 81-year-old Diane Walker into paying an insurance claim she was not responsible for.
Labor pledged $5m for soccer precinct before it was planned or costed
ABC News Australiaby Clare Armstrong·28d ago
In short: Labor promised $5 million for an Adelaide sports precinct before the project was formally scoped, designed or fully costed.
Our post-Emmys group chat asks: Is Widow's Bay that good?
ABC News Australiaby Mawunyo Gbogbo, Beverley Wang, Veronica Apap, and Lincoln Archer·28d ago
Did you miss the best bits of the Emmys? Don't worry, so did we. That's why we've reached out to our Emmys devotees, Mawunyo Gbogbo and Beverley Wang, for the highlights from the ceremony and what...
One Australian's 'magical', 'unbelievable' road to Muppets history
ABC News Australiaby Velvet Winter and Brianna Morris-Grant·28d ago
It's been 50 years since The Muppet Show hit TV screens around the world. For one Australian puppeteer, it was the adventure of a lifetime.
China tightens travel restrictions on its own citizens amid AI race with US
ABC News Australia·28d ago
In short: New regulations in China give government the option to impose travel bans on citizens who are deemed to have violated security and tech export rules.
The US has admitted deploying weapons in space and China is sounding the alarm
ABC News Australia·28d ago
The US has confirmed it has stationed arms in orbit around the Earth, in a move China warns could turn space into a "battlefield".
'Complete failure': UK baby killer inquiry findings handed down
ABC News Australia·28d ago
In short: The findings from a public inquiry into a British hospital's handling of multiple infant deaths have been released.
Man charged over alleged verbal abuse towards girl wearing hijab in Sydney
ABC News Australiaby Nabil Al-Nashar·28d ago
In short: Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia has condemned an alleged racist attack against a 13-year-old girl on a Sydney bus.
Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds
ABC News Australiaby Stephanie Richards·28d ago
In short: Australia's pre-colonial population estimate has been revised, suggesting the number of Indigenous people on the continent was at least twice as large as previously thought.
Western Renewables Link passes planning hurdle as cost review ordered
ABC News Australiaby Tamara Clark·28d ago
In short: Victorian Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny has approved the Western Renewables Link Environment Effects Statement (EES).
Mother's videos of dying toddler may be used to train junior doctors
ABC News Australiaby Catherine James·28d ago
In short: Two-year-old Pippa White died of sepsis and pneumonia after being transferred from Cowra hospital to Orange hospital in 2022.
Detective had three theories about Queensland mum's 1998 disappearance
ABC News Australiaby Christopher Testa·28d ago
In short: Former detective Graeme Eaton has told a coronial inquest he worked to three possibilities while investigating the 1998 disappearance of Joanne Butterfield.
Irreversible surgery as a baby left Stephanie with lifelong questions that are only now being answered
ABC News Australiaby Jason Om·28d ago
Stephanie Saal has lived with a series of what-ifs since doctors carried out irreversible surgery on her as a baby that she believes reduced her chances of having children.
Minister 'very confident' private maternity care will return to Darwin
ABC News Australiaby Roxanne Fitzgerald·28d ago
In short: Calvary Health Care's takeover of more than a dozen Australian hospitals could lead to maternity services being reinstated in the Northern Territory.
Oil price could surge to $US150 as war engulfs major Middle East supply routes
ABC News Australiaby David Taylor·28d ago
The Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea and inland Saudi Arabia are now active war zones. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis fired dozens of missiles and drones at a military air base in Khamis Mushait in...
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