For players of the Balloon Football League, or BFL, the passion and competitiveness is just as intense as AFL the only difference being the players are disabled.

A woman who forged documents to become an au pair is arrested for allegedly kidnapping two girls aged four and 10 months.

The supermarket giant announces it will bypass processors and contract milk directly from dairy farmers in New South Wales and Victoria from July 1.

From sky-high water costs to prohibitively expensive livestock feed, new forecasts show how drought will impact Australia's exports and agricultural production.

A protest by Victorian oil and gas workers over pay and conditions at Esso's offshore operations has come to an end more than 700 days after workers first set up a picket line at the company's Longford gas plant.

Victorian public housing tenants say residents could forgo medication or heating because of higher rental prices after the State Government's market review.

It was spruiked as Victoria's own Gold Coast, but people who bought land along Ninety Mile Beach in the 1950s could never build on their blocks.

The mother of a two-year-old boy who died in Melbourne's outer-south-east on Monday speaks of her grief as the man charged with his murder is remanded in custody.

A threat to close the Yallourn coal-fired power station earlier than planned has some asking whether Australia should look to Germany as a model for transition.

Rain has been so heavy in parts of Gippsland that it has caused landslides, severely limiting some residents' mobility. Meanwhile, the other half of the region continues to battle through the drought.

A 33-year-old Victorian woman who was repeatedly denied breast screenings because of her age is urging other women to "follow their instincts" after being diagnosed with cancer.

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.

Although 3D printing is being used for a variety of applications in healthcare, biomedical engineering and manufacturing, it is still pretty limited

We recently wrote about several projects that aim to increase the strength of 3D printed components. In November 2018, the “Father of RepRap,” Dr. Adrian Bowyer, demonstrated how hollow tubes could make 3D prints stronger. Later, Stefan Hermann at CNC Kitchen experimented with Smart Infill for stronger 3D prints.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used fine-scale 3D bioprinting to grow cells that are highly uniform in shape and size, and potentially with certain functions.

Boston-based MIT Media Lab spinoff Formlabs has today launched two new 3D printers at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) show in Chicago

Open Bionics announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Hanger Clinic to bring the first-ever medically-certified 3D-printed bionic arm to the United States.

Relativity, the Los Angeles-based manufacturer fo 3D printed rockets, has signed its first public commercial contract with Telesat, the renowned global satellite operator

A team of engineers at Tufts University has developed a series of 3D printed metamaterials with unique microwave or optical properties.

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.

A group of friends with disabilities is about to undertake a cycling adventure to challenge the misconceptions about people with disabilities. They're going to ride from Australia's lowest point at Lake Eyre to the highest point Mt Kosciuszko. Two of them will peddle the 2000 kilometres together on a tandem trike.

The daily challenges of living with a disability are often significantly heightened during times of natural disasters.

As an experiment, David Elliot-Jones went to Japan to make it big. A documentary crew followed him. This is his story.

Police have charged a man with the wilful murder of Sarah Spiers, a victim of the so-called Claremont serial killings in Perth in the 1990s.

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

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.

After denying responsibility for years, billionaire Clive Palmer has agreed to repay millions of dollars over the Queensland Nickel collapse, but he still faces a civil trial that may see him take the witness stand.

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.

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

A five-year-old boy has died in North Queensland after he was hit by a car overnight while riding his bicycle along the footpath with his father.

A homeowner says he will consider recommendations to install an alarm in the roof cavity of his house after a blaze caused extensive damage but did not set off ceiling alarms.

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

A school in the heart of the desert has been covered with thousands of icicles, as the mercury plummets to new lows across the the NT