A man responsible for an "atrocious attack" on an off-duty paramedic during a crime spree on the Mornington Peninsula last year is sentenced to five years and nine months in jail.

The 2019 Melbourne Cup has been won by Australian-owned, trained and bred horse Vow And Declare in a dramatic finish at Flemington, but last-placed Rostropovich is taken to Werribee with a pelvis injury.

An innovative baiting method being trialled on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula could be used on a larger scale to reduce the impact feral pigs have on Australia's marine turtle populations.

Mount Panorama has made the most experienced racing driver and their team shudder, but it hasn't stopped a group of TAFE students taking on the mountain.

Pyramid Hill is home to a growing Filipino community, with many working at the nearby piggeries.

It's the holy month of Ramadan, which usually means Muslims don't eat or drink during the day and gather at night at food markets and mosques to break the fast.

Mary Kathleen's shuttered uranium mine is bright blue, incredibly Instagram-worthy, radioactive and Queensland's latest hotspot.

School principal Michelle Wilson spent a stressful two hours on the phone, convinced she owed $8,000 and could soon be arrested if she didn't pay up. Then she realised the whole thing was an elaborate hoax.

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.

Rare insights into leading authors with Radio National's Ramona Koval.

Shopping these days is no private affair as shopper surveillance ramps up towards the Christmas period. What you might not be aware of is that traders and their employees are also being keenly observed.

Daniel Mansbridge was seven kilometres into a 1,000-kilometre charity ride for children's cancer when he was knocked off his bicycle and bashed by a group of teenagers.

A jaded war photographer forms an unexpected friendship with a South Sudanese refugee whose village he has photographed, in this ambitious new Australian film.

A self-described online news service operator who admitted to duping a woman out of $5,000 in Tasmania is wanted on similar allegations in South Australia, a court hears.

Sydney property developers are pulling out all stops by offering special deals including to pay the buyer's mortgage for a year in a bid to lure customers and sell a glut of apartment stock in a downturned market.

The SA Government has revealed plans to mothball 60 public hospital beds and offer further redundancies in the health system, despite record levels of ambulance ramping outside emergency departments in recent months.

South Australia's Opposition says it will reverse the State Government's plan to privatise Adelaide's train and tram services if elected in 2022.

A mining company whose lawyers have been accused of engaging in bullying and intimidation against an Adelaide Hills winery says it will formally apologise to the family-run business.

The Sydney captain climbed onto a goal post after the siren, contravening AFL laws.

A section of an ABC television program titled Women Feel Guilty Whatever They Do, aired on March 27, 1985. It features stay-at-home mother Liz Crawford and working mother Deborah Brennan.

The Victorian County Court criticises Gippsland Grammar for not sacking a 21-year-old tutor months before he had sex with an underage student.

There has been a significant decline in the number of Q fever cases reported so far this year compared to the same period last year.

The number of coronavirus cases in Victoria continues to inch up as a paramedic tests positive to the virus and health authorities investigate a cluster at a meat processing plant.

Street mural artist Heesco, project coordinator Wayne Tindall, Yarram resident Eric Greenaway and The Ship Inn motel owner Paul Frost on what the 'Heesco Town' project has meant to Yarram, in South Gippsland.

Bungala Aboriginal Corporation chief executive blames funding changes for Emeroo Indigenous station closure.

A Flinders Ranges woman who killed a man after ramming him with her ute as part of a family dispute over a trailer is found guilty of manslaughter, not murder, with an Adelaide judge saying she "cannot be sure" the woman intended to kill.

A South Australian woman, who killed a man by hitting him with her ute amid a dispute over the use of a trailer, is sentenced to nine years in jail.

A stalwart of rock band Rose Tattoo retrains for a role that will help him give back to the community.

The Eels make a mess of the Broncos in Parramatta after the Storm ran roughshod over the Knights and the Panthers won a close one against the Rabbitohs.

The Eels come from three tries down to beat the Raiders in the Territory after the Sea Eagles crush the Titans at Robina and the Knights get the points against the Broncos in Newcastle.

New legal advice suggests Australia's water suppliers may have no legal basis to add fluoride.

A research project is underway to determine the impact of the controversial Lord Howe Island rodent eradication program on a threatened currawong species and wider ecosystem.

In today's busy and technology-driven world, children are increasingly suffering from anxiety, and there's often little time to reflect, or play outside. Two NSW women are hoping to change that.

Emergency crews gain the upper hand in fighting 85 fires across NSW but two blazes near Forster-Tuncurry escalate again.

Government marketers are spending an increasing amount of money on bringing so-called influencers to Australia, but is it money well spent?

For inmates in a maximum security prison in WA, socialising unwanted dogs is "like a day away" from jail and the effects of the program are being described as "win-win".

A trampoline lands on the roof of a Hobart home, piercing a bedroom ceiling, as strong winds of up to 155 kilometres per hour wreak havoc in southern Tasmania overnight.

Three-year-old Chase has come ahead in leaps and bounds in this past year, his family credits a program giving kids like him free access to early learning.

With the September deadline for practical completion of the Royal Hobart Hospital's new K-block redevelopment expired, the Government "needs to be upfront with Tasmanians" as to when it will be operational, Labor says.

Consultants investigating Ambulance Tasmania found poor management of fatigue and workplace stress and a lack of workplace health and safety procedures across the organisation, a leaked report reveals.

Paramedics will return patients to ambulances for care if they are waiting more than half an hour in the ramping area of the Royal Hobart Hospital.