The prospect of a day-night Test, greater ties to Indigenous culture and better use of technology could put the Perth Stadium up there with the likes of the MCG, but cricket powerbrokers must get on board to make it work, writes Clint Thomas.

We hear about the EU-funded project Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law. We get up-to-date on a new data trust mark for Australian researchers. And we take you back to the Quayside 'Google' project in Toronto.

You hear it in the music of Nick Cave, read it in the words of Helen Garner, even see it plastered across the chests of bronzed surfers. The Bible as a book has had a huge impact on Australian culture.  Many Australian artists, writers, politicians and feminists have found something in the Bible to enrich their stories or bolster their causes.

Doctor Frankenstein was the original 'mad scientist', pursuing science without morality or ethics to create a monster that would ultimately destroy him. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's book was published the questions raised by the book are more relevant than ever before.

The story behind Franz Gruber's beloved carol of Oberndorf Austria.

The history behind this fab four's songs, like Baby I Need Your Loving, Reach Out I'll Be There, I Can't Help Myself

The music of Kaija Saariaho and the passion of Simone Weil

Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal people were taken from their homelands and taken to 'lock hospitals' for treatment of suspected venereal diseases. Many never came home.

Three people on an interstate road trip have had $2 million cash seized by police and will now spend Christmas in jail.

New face-tracking technology is being installed by the City of Perth to increase security and help authorities respond to incidents. If a trial in East Perth is successful, the technology could be rolled out across the city's entire camera network.

A spokesman for Mr Corbyn denies the claim and says he actually stated 'stupid people' while Mrs May has called on those in the House to use "appropriate language".

High-profile potential candidates and a field of women emerge as the National Party scrambles to find a replacement for the Member for Mallee following his political demise.

Three people on an interstate road trip have had $2 million cash seized by police and will now spend Christmas in jail.

Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal men, women and children were removed from their homelands and taken to 'lock hospitals' on Bernier and Dorre Islands, off Western Australia, under the guise of treatment for venereal diseases. Many never returned home.

While the rest of Australia's industry recovers from a viral outbreak, WA has set its sights on the commercial cultivation of edible native oysters

After another interesting and sometimes surprising year, 7.30 host Leigh Sales picks her favourite and most memorable interviews of 2018.

The Backpack Kid becomes the latest to sue Epic Games over a popular dance move ending up in Fortnite.

A newly discovered amphibian that is blind and buries its head in the sand is officially named after Donald Trump in recognition of the US President's stance on climate change.

A one-month-old baby in Vanuatu becomes the first child to be immunised using vaccines delivered by commercial drone to the inaccessible island where she lives with her family.

Employees of a realtor in Sapporo emptied the contents of 120 deodorant spray cans before an explosion injured 42 people and caused nearby apartment buildings and houses to shake, the company admits.

Two days after their boat runs out of fuel, a group of dehydrated Northern Territory fishermen finally decide to set off their emergency beacon.

Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital and gas company BOC are facing criminal charges over the 2016 incident, in which nitrous oxide was confused for oxygen.

The former first lady of Zimbabwe Grace Mugabe is accused of assaulting a model with an electric cable at a luxury hotel in Johannesburg's Sandton district.

The family of Naim Aziz Abbas says he is innocent and calls for the Australian Government to intervene after the 65-year-old is found guilty of passing on secrets to Qatar.

BOM and CSIRO's biennial State of the Climate report has just been released and there is no let up in rising trends with fire danger, extreme heat days, ocean temperatures, ocean acidity and heavy rainfall all up.

After bumping into a woman at a Chinese bookstore and becoming obsessed with her, a man takes his compulsive mission to find the woman to an extreme level — suing her in order to try to track her down.

The high-profile breakfast television host will not return to the Today Show, Nine confirms, amid weeks of speculation about the anchor's future on the program.

The entrepreneur launches his foray into public transit after complaining on Twitter in 2016 that LA's traffic was "driving me nuts," promising then to "build a boring machine and just start digging" — and it appears the billionaire has followed through.

The social media network is responding to a report that claims other companies were allowed to read private messages and obtain data through friends without permission.

The Formula One champion was criticised after saying on national television it had been a dream for him and his family "to get out of the slums".

Alisha Kapoor is only five and has spent almost her whole life inside the four walls of a hospital room because of a rare genetic disorder. Only now is she beginning to see the outside world.

Nationals MP Andrew Broad is facing new claims about his longstanding use of dating apps to meet younger women, with a social media post sitting on his Facebook profile for at least 49 weeks.

New face-tracking technology is being installed by the City of Perth to increase security and help authorities respond to incidents. If a trial in East Perth is successful, the technology could be rolled out across the city's entire camera network.

American photographer Thomas Laird has archived a collection of Tibet's remote murals in a gold-lined book signed by the Dalai Lama, titled Murals of Tibet.

Cathy Staughton regularly paints her friend Catherine Bell, with one of her portraits exhibited in the 2018 Salon des Refusés. She also has an intellectual disability, and is legally deaf and blind.

Queensland artist Davida Allen reminds us the demands of motherhood are not always joyous in her 2018 exhibition at Griffith University Art Museum.

Kate Evans talks books and writing with Viv Albertine - former punk guitarist from The Slits turned memoirist, as well as Jessie Burton whose latest book retells a fairy tale, and Spanish writer Jorge Carrion who has written a history of bookshops.

A Stolen Season explores power, exploitation and Australia’s involvement in the 2003 Iraq War.

Two times Miles Franklin winner talks about his latest novel, A Stolen Season, about the morality of the Iraq War.

The NT Labor Government is blaming its budget freefall on a decline in GST revenue and the natural economic lull after its LNG project boom, but does that explanation actually hold up?

Multiple emails show the NT Labor Caucus and Cabinet fear a 2020 election loss following the revelation of the dire state of the budget, with MLA Ken Vowles saying if the jurisdiction was a private business "it would be trading insolvent".

The New South Wales Government is describing its federal colleagues as "out of touch" on energy and climate policies, with Energy Minister Don Harwin promising to push for rules to force power companies to reduce their carbon emissions.

Queensland Indigenous artist Tony Albert on his collection of "Aboriginalia" and what it represents in his 2018 exhibition Visible.

One of the summer's most anticipated Australian productions will be released on January 17, as its lead actor Geoffrey Rush denies allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

A meeting of Australia's energy ministers ends bitterly, with the country's biggest Liberal-run state accusing the Commonwealth of blocking discussion on climate change.

A children's book tells the true story of an optometrist who flies in his self-made plane delivering eye care services to remote Australian towns.

A daughter enters deep into her mother's world of dementia and discovers a pure way to love.

Death metal lyrics focus on topics like rape, murder, decapitation and torture. But new research finds fans of death metal move beyond the lyrics to experience feelings of joy, peace and empowerment. How is this so?

When we open our mouths and sing, lots of great things happen inside our bodies. Just ask the members of Melbourne's Welsh Male Choir.