With 11 voyages and 300,000 recorded observations under his belt, population ecologist Eric Woehler has dedicated his life to building a dataset to help monitor and track bird populations in a changing world.

Edible insects are praised as a sustainable form of snack, but that is not their only drawcard, with some Territorians reporting that they are 'crunchy and full of flavour'.

Residents of Australia's most affluent city face the longest waits for emergency care, despite significant investments in hospitals. How bad is it? That depends on how sick you are, Markus Mannheim writes.

The trial of two teenagers who rampaged through Queanbeyan and stabbed to death a service station attendant has been abandoned after the second of them pleaded guilty.

The Raiders withstood a tremendous South Sydney Rabbitohs onslaught to reach its first grand final since 1994 with a 16-10 victory at a sold-out Canberra Stadium.

Cooper Cronk has achieved everything in the game, but as he prepares to play his final NRL match in Sunday's grand final against the Canberra Raiders, he has one more accolade in his sights.

The Australian National University has released a detailed account of how its servers were hacked in 2018, but failed to answer the most important question.

Viking claps, giant horns and nostalgic tales of the great 'Green Machine' must be ignored by the underdog Canberra Raiders if they are to have any chance of beating the heavily favoured Roosters in Sunday's NRL grand final, writes Richard Hinds.

The Sydney Roosters are the 2019 NRL premiers after a 14-8 victory over the Canberra raiders at AAMI Park

The Sydney Roosters are the first team to win consecutive NRL premierships since 1993, beating the Canberra Raiders 14-8 in a gripping grand final. Look back at how the action unfolded in our live blog.

Sydney Roosters fans chant "back to back" as they focus on the positives of their team's controversial second NRL grand final victory in two years.

The Sydney and Melbourne buildings have served as the gateway to Canberra for decades. But time and neglect have taken their toll on the icons, which now form a crumbling entrance to the capital's lake and parliamentary precinct.

Computers have traditionally excelled at mathematical tasks, and are now better than humans at games such as chess, but some AI experts believe they could one day produce literature to rival Shakespeare himself.

ACT water police spent Wednesday morning trying to tie up an unwilling Canberran that had found itself in Lake Burley Griffin. According to a witness, the roo was eventually rescued and hopped off towards the High Court.

Despite being home to dairies, orchards and grain crops, the rural shire of Moira in Victoria has been told it's 0.1 per cent short of agriculture employment to qualify for a drought assistance grant.

A week ahead of the first hearings of the Disability Royal Commission in Townsville, a new survey of families of children with disability finds nearly no progress has been made on improving access to inclusive education.

If you're a Canberra renter who loves pets and is fond of hanging art, there's good news. New laws coming into effect today will make it easier for renters, but there are fears it could lead to a downturn in rental properties.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics won't ask you about your sexual orientation in the 2021 census. But that won't stop it from trying to figure it out anyway.

The owner of Mitchell Mistresses, Bradley Lester Grey used job interviews with "young and naive" sex workers to sexually assault them. Today he was found guilty of 20 sexual offences against seven employees.

Lea Powell had to leave teaching after years working as a casual became too hard to manage but she was just one of more than 600 workers in the ACT's health and education systems who have been constant casual for more than five years.

Researchers find a common disease in honey bees can be transmitted to native bees through flowers, causing them to die about three times the rate of the normal mortality.

Dark-coloured jerseys could lead to poor performance, increased rates of injury, and even jeopardise the careers of young rugby league players, researchers say.

A year after her murder, Toyah Cordingley's name still hangs in shop windows, on posters strung up on trees, and stickers on car bumpers in nearly every street in Cairns.

The operator of a Gold Coast aged care facility is accused of taking money from the bank accounts of residents at the same time they were being evacuated because the centre was closing.

The Cats rebound to beat the Swans in Sydney, while the Bombers edge out the Suns in a pulsating finish on the Gold Coast and the Bulldogs trump the Dockers.

It has been the beating heart of the Gold Coast for 90 years, now locals fear the Old Burleigh Theatre Arcade will be transformed into a 14-storey apartment block.

Family and friends post tributes to Jeffrey and Matthew Hills, whose bodies were found in the wreckage of a plane which crashed in northern NSW on Friday.

A software firm develops smartphone keyboards specifically designed to write in traditional languages to help people protect their language.

A jockey who rode War Ends for a year and made numerous attempts to rehome him says she recognised the horse being slaughtered in an abattoir on the ABC's 7.30 program and laments she "failed" him.

For more than 20 years, 178 children have stared at motorists driving along the busy M1 on the Gold Coast. We dispel the urban myths of who they are and why they are there.

Two sex workers charged with working illegally on the Gold Coast tell the ABC they thought the agency had been a legal operation.

I had only been in Rockhampton for two hours when I experienced some form of Islamophobia and I'm a Palestinian-Arab-Christian, writes Ryan Al-Natour.

These police know bull sharks and crocodiles are around, and "you can't even see your hand in front of your face", but the challenge is the reward in a job that requires grit.

Last-minute injunctions have stalled the deportation of a Tamil family who have spent years fighting to stay in Australia. Here's what we know about the case.

A central Queensland community has donated thousands of dollars worth of food to visiting hockey teams from developing countries.

The mayor of Woorabinda, a small Indigenous community in central Queensland, says until their land is converted from a government lease to freehold, it is still like living on a mission.

Sustainability in the supply chain is an issue that continues to move higher up the agenda as consumers increasingly opt for brands with a sustainable business model. 

They are taking multiple factors into account when making purchasing decisions – from the choice of raw materials, through factory locations, to recycling policies – meaning sustainability is permeating the entire supply chain.

UK manufacturers reported the quickest falls in output volumes and total new orders since 2009 in the three months to April, while business optimism plunged at a record pace. That’s according to the latest CBI quarterly Industrial Trends Survey.