A special kind of election is unfolding across Victoria as the Aboriginal communities taking part in the treaty process cast their votes to elect a First Peoples' Assembly.

Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto was retained by at least one investor to help recover money from the messy collapse of a major property developer that left investors owed millions of dollars, according to court documents.

A planned $17-million hi-tech education precinct in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, a centrepiece of the Hazelwood transition program, is in jeopardy after the project's major partner pulls out.

The Victorian Government has passed legislation to phase out the 10 remaining commercial fishing licences in the Gippsland Lakes over the next two years.

A draft Victorian Government policy rocks the boat, by banning any new private jetties along the Victorian coast.

A report on the workplace culture at a major hospital in Victoria uncovers limited supervision of junior mental health staff, as well as allegations of bullying and sexual harassment.

Albert H. Fox, who restored and rebuilt close to 6,000 pianos and tuned several thousand more, has now restored a famous 145-year-old Pleyel piano.

More than 70 eastern barred bandicoots have travelled some 400 kilometres from Hamilton, on Victoria's mainland, to the safe haven of French Island in Western Port Bay.

Culture in rural Victoria often revolves around farming and football, however in the private realms of garage collections and online chatrooms, there's evidence of a healthy geek community.

Whistleblower doctors in New South Wales say their pleas for a serious inquiry into regional healthcare by the NSW State Government are being ignored since a damning Four Corners expose last month.

An unlikely partnership involving scientists and the fishing industry is at the centre of efforts to restore seagrass stocks in Corner Inlet.

The Victorian Government announces an immediate ban on all old growth logging and the phasing out of native timber logging in a transition plan that will cost $120 million over the next ten years.

It's an old joke in Bathurst that locals can spot an out-of-towner because they turn the wrong way around one of the historic lamp standards in the city's CBD. But what's the reason behind this road rule and is it unique to Bathurst?

A priceless 17th-century map of Australia is back on display after being painstakingly restored.

The stories of the Stolen Generations told in their own voices are preserved in a unique audio archive at the National Library.

The Western-style wedding dress worn by a Japanese war bride in 1956 is on display at the National Museum as part of a wider exhibit about immigration.

Indigenous objects presented to Hazel Hawke at the the 1988 Barunga Festival are on display for the first time at Parliament House.

An Australian rifleman who fought in the Boer War was one of eight soldiers awarded a hand-crocheted scarf by Queen Victoria.

A pair of Australian families have bought the world's second-biggest farm, at more than 16,500 square kilometres in size and home to 18,000 cattle.

Albert Burke served his country and fought on the Western Front, but when he returned home, he was forced onto a mission and later died in the bush, alone.

Hundreds of people have signed a petition calling on Queensland MPs to stop a departmental plan to remove 'historic' fishing huts in and around a national park in the state's north.

When Dave Suter donated the 'innocuous' wartime artefacts he had once used as bookends, he was shocked to learn they were unexploded WWII bombs.

Clive Palmer paid just $1 for his Queensland Nickel business seven years before it collapsed over fatal cashflow problems, a liquidator tells a court in Brisbane.

An agreement with a Chinese company to develop an export processing facility for north Queensland and Northern Territory beef has been signed with a local council.

In a breakthrough during week three of a nine week trial over Clive Palmer's ill-fated Queensland Nickel venture, a "resolution" is reached on Aurizon's $90 million claim, as talks continue with liquidators trying to claw back money owed to other creditors.

Akubras are not the only accessory on heads in the main street of Charters Towers, with VR goggles becoming increasingly common and helping showcase the town's role in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Minor premiers Melbourne finish on a high as they beat the Cowboys at AAMI Park, after the Eels down Manly to claim fifth.

Time has run out for the owners of 14 holiday shacks near Ingham in north Queensland with the State Government ordering their removal by the end of the month.

Leaks from one of Adani's most significant contractors for its Carmichael coal mine, engineering firm GHD, show it has been rocked by internal dissent and management has been bombarded with complaints and questions about its work on the mine.

One of the world's most dangerous desert tracks claims a victim, with five-time champion Toby Price bowing out due to mechanical problems paving the way for a hometown hero to take the gold.

A Senate inquiry in the Northern Territory reveals decomposing bodies are being transported on ageing aircraft without refrigeration, potentially posing a massive biohazard risk.