A council in regional Western Australia is the latest to join the list of local governments around the country to allow ratepayer money to fund defamation action against members of the public.

A 38-year-old woman accused of murdering her newborn baby 24 years ago in the toilets of a remote WA caravan park is allowed to return home to Victoria to await the outcome of the case.

A Japanese multinational agreed to pay its workers a 2 per cent annual bonus. It ended up in court blaming an errant keystroke after filing paperwork agreeing to pay a 10 per cent bonus.

The find at a dam in outback Western Australia is even more incredible considering the number of fossickers who camp there while prospecting in the Goldfields.

"Emotional, narcissistic and untrustworthy": Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joins Raf to discuss his new book 'A Bigger Picture' which provides a no-holds-barred assessment of his former political colleagues.

There's growing consensus among weather forecasting models that Australia could be in for a wet winter. But what do farmers think?

Some regional Australians argue they should see social-distancing measures wound back first because there is less risk of COVID-19 spreading, but a leading health expert is not a fan of the idea.

With comedy festivals cancelled and stand-up clubs shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, Melbourne comics are turning to videoconferencing apps to reach audiences who have never needed a laugh more than now.

Premier Daniel Andrews says 100,000 Victorians will be tested for coronavirus over 14 days before a decision is taken on whether physical-distancing restrictions should be lifted.

A single charge of attempted indecent assault is dropped against television star Craig McLachlan, but the actor still faces 13 accusations.

Researchers in Victoria are experimenting with biosolids in a bid to improve farm productivity, and the results are very promising so far.

Researchers have identified all the immune reactive proteins, then mapped and identified the parts causing chronic wheat ailments, giving growers a path to develop new lines.

The Gold Coast property market may avoid a significant downturn amid the coronavirus pandemic, with predictions of an increase in the number of interstate buyers chasing a sea change.

The Federal Government is being urged to introduce a housing construction stimulus to prevent dire predictions for the timber industry being realised.

Across many states and territories, the coronavirus restrictions keeping people at home are finally being relaxed. Here are the things allowed as the country slowly opens back up.

Along the Victorian coastline, residents in booming seaside towns fear the rapid rate of development is ruining the character of the communities. The Government has promised to strike a balance between growth and protection, but residents fear it may be too little, too late.

Tim Griffin, the Austin Hospital nurse who blew the whistle about what he believed was medical negligence, has died.

Shadow Local Government Minister Tim Smith and Ratepayers Victoria president Dean Hurlston are calling for rates to be frozen and for the State Government to do more to help council staff, May 6, 2020.

A big hemp haul in Victoria's north-west expects their first harvest of edible crop to be the largest in Australia.

It has been an exotic jujube harvest boom for a Victorian grower, but COVID-19 restrictions have slowed down sales and squashed market prices.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, immunity has never been such a hot topic. It's meant a family-run dairy that produces colostrum is being overrun with enquiries.

The culling of feral horses in Victoria's Alpine National Park will go ahead after the Federal Court ruled that alpine brumbies should not be protected.

Looking to replace the second oldest radar on its network at Mildura airport, the BOM marks a spot at Cullulleraine.

Buggerlugs the lost Bulwer's petrel is released from Darwin NT after he was found at a Cronulla RSL balcony in NSW.

A rarely seen Bulwer's petrel, nicknamed Buggerlugs, which lost its way and ended up on a pub balcony in Sydney, is flown north and released back into its natural habitat.

Have you ever picked up a stick to walk with through a park or reserve? Well, here's why you shouldn't.

A sighting of a sea creature not usually found in Tasmanian waters has surprised onlookers, but could become more frequent, experts say.

Pastoralists are begrudgingly starting to buy fly nets for the first time, a bush fashion faux pas that is normally associated with overseas tourists visiting the outback.

The officer realised something was unusual when he could not see the driver. Then the boy said he was on his way to California to buy a Lamborghini.

A man who assaulted a South Australian paramedic while she attempted to help him while he was having a mental episode has avoided jail time.

The Cordillo Downs woolshed is the biggest of its kind in the world and a reminder of when Australia rode on the sheep's back. Now help is being sought to guarantee its future.

A man is charged with the murder of another man at a home in South Australia's Mid North region in the early hours of Sunday morning.

As a child he showed sociopathic tendencies. By the time he was an adult he was a drug dealer with an extensive criminal record who would go on to kill six people.

Tributes are flowing for a former Queensland police officer and a respected horse stud owner killed in an outback plane crash, with investigations into the cause of the incident continuing.

It's been 55 years since Geoff Prime was diagnosed with Bell's palsy and told he wouldn't work on the family farm again. He's now retiring from the farm, aged 94.

After undergoing a multi-million dollar development, the Port Pirie smelter is once again not producing anything.

Allegations a female firefighter was grabbed by the neck by a male colleague, and another suffered burns after being "blocked" from leaving a house fire, spark an investigation at a regional SA fire station but the findings will not be made public.

The actor, who became an Australian household name through shows such as The Sullivans and Matlock Police, won five silver Logies and also helped set up Brisbane's first AFL team.

Regulations aimed at ensuring the safety of remote nurses in South Australia are struck down in Parliament after being criticised by nurses and the family of murdered outback nurse Gayle Woodford.

Chronic back pain from a military training accident in 1980 was slowly ruining Dennis Shiller's life until he discovered neuromodulation.

The barriers to finding a rental home have become so taxing that some tenants are forced to enlist outside help.

Authorities are fed up with a Taiwanese shipping company's slow response to salvaging containers it lost at sea near Newcastle one year ago, with one commercial fisherman saying he is still catching up to 20 push bikes in nets.

At a conservative estimate, people around the world are consuming a credit card's-worth of microplastic every week, according to a new study.

Former Newcastle Knights player Jarrod Mullen has fronted court in Newcastle facing a series of drugs charges.