Footage from a Victorian poultry farm, released by animal activists, appears to show workers stretching the necks of chickens and throwing them onto a concrete floor.

Key's Matchstick Grasshopper

A species of grasshopper that has not been seen in Victoria since the 1960s is rediscovered at Omeo in East Gippsland.

The operators of Hazelwood Power Station should have been better prepared for a blaze in its open-cut brown coal mine that burned for 45 days five years ago, a court hears.

A computer chip containing the science experiments of a group of Australian school students is hurtling through space this morning, bound for the International Space Station. Students from seven New South Wales schools have been working on ways to make space travel easier. Overnight, their ideas - contained on chip called Raspberry Pie - were fired into space on-board a rocket launched in Florida.

Consumer demand for coconuts is booming and world supply is struggling to keep up, so an industry awaits as Australia imports nearly all the coconut it consumes.

Gary Doust on his doc following the making of an ultra-low budget horror movie.

Nine photographic panels, so large that they've never been displayed in public until now, depict the construction of Parliament House in Canberra 30 years ago.

A chalk sketch of the 18th-century Polynesian princess Tynai-mai is on display in the National Library's Cook and the Pacific exhibition.

Queensland Police says the action of both police and those involved were being reviewed by Ethical Standards Command.

New research on where feral pigs live and how far they travel is being hailed as "one of the best data sets in the world" by a shooter contracted to manage the invasive species, while also raising alarm bells about serious diseases.

A man is airlifted to Townsville Hospital with wounds to his hand and abdomen after being shot by officers while trying to break into Bowen Police Station in north Queensland.

A team of citizen scientists join in the effort to restore the balance in inshore reefs and save threatened corals by clearing them of choking algae and seeding them with coral larvae.

An urgent parole audit ordered by the NT's Chief Minister in the wake of a shooting spree in Darwin earlier this month finds a number of parolees and offenders are not being adequately monitored.

During the past 15 years, the Northern Territory's public service numbers have been closely tied to programs targeting Aboriginal advancement, with any major surges driven almost exclusively by these strategies. Yet many are quick to point out these programs have largely failed.

Bottle shops in Darwin have eased voluntary restrictions on the sale of cask wine, saying Government policies have made them superfluous. But the move has prompted criticism from police, and a major supermarket giant has already backtracked.

Dujuan, a 12-year-old who was nearly jailed as a 10-year-old, addresses the NT Parliament, urging them to try to understand troubled youth and look for alternatives to detention.

Australians suffering acute mental health episodes in rural and remote areas are increasingly having to travel far from family and friends for life-saving treatment, leading to calls for more specialist clinicians in the country.

Tengentyere Council chief executive Walter Shaw says police auxiliaries followed him to a friend's house and then back to his town camp, where he says they pepper-sprayed his dog and searched his car before acknowledging he had no alcohol.

Wild black kites are becoming a bit of a nuisance at a free-flight bird show in Alice Springs, turning up to the shows hoping for a free feed.

After two years, police in Victoria still do not know why someone shot Kelvin Tennant while he was cycling on the Myrtleford-Everton Rail Trail in 2017. They are offering a $500,000 reward to find the person responsible.

The brothers shot and injured by police after wielding a knife and tomahawk during a confrontation in Victoria's north-east were of interest to counterterrorisminvestigators.

The brothers shot by police in Barnawartha North yesterday were radicalised before going to jail last year, NSW Corrective Services allege, as counterterrorism police say one of the men had been on their radar for at least two years.

A man who was shot by police in northern Victoria last week, after he and his brother allegedly threatened officers with a knife and a tomahawk, appears in court charged with assaulting police.

A random survey of people living in the Murray-Darling Basin shows support for reallocating water from irrigators to Indigenous communities.

A care package for people diagnosed with cancer could be rolled out nationally after its success in a regional community.

Before he retires, Bishop John Parkes in north-east Victoria is pushing for same-sex marriages to be blessed by the Anglican Church.

Murderer Michael Cardamone, who tortured and callously killed Victorian woman Karen Chetcuti-Verbunt in 2016, has his life jail term upheld by appeal judges who say the "dreadful punishment" is fit for "a dreadful crime".