The free cuppa and bikkie offered at the once-popular Driver Reviver sites on the nation's major highways have been slowly losing their appeal to tired motorists.

Investors are calling for entrepreneurial skills to be taught in schools to help prepare children for the future 'gig-based' economy.

DAILY BRIEFING: 130 jobs are being cut from the Vodafone centre in Hobart, and former attorney-general John Bennett has died.

Australia's island state is known for its rich history and pristine environment it also provides 50 per cent of the raw materials that go into the powerful painkillers at the centre of the United States' opioid crisis.

A botched effort at censoring a scathing report on Tasmania's juvenile detention centre reveals a litany of shortcomings, including "very little real security", CCTV that is "rarely monitored", inadequate reporting of force being used and a fence that would not stop an escape attempt, only "slow it down".

A draft report has found a $260 million development of Glenorchy's Wilkinson's Point would great 1,100 jobs and inject millions into Hobart, but it could come at a cost to locals.

DAILY BRIEFING: A fire that started north of Bothwell two days ago has been upgraded to emergency level, with firefighters pulling out because it is too dangerous.

A regional Victorian city that nearly lost its tram network in the 1970s is set to become a national hub for historic tram restoration.

A man in his 40s suffers non-life-threatening injuries after he is allegedly assaulted by a young person at the Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre in central Victoria.

Three men accused of attacking staff at a youth justice centre in central Victoria with a plastic cricket bat will be sent to adult prison. It follows another incident earlier this week when an inmate allegedly attacked a worker with a makeshift knife.

The lockdown of a youth correctional facility in central Victoria continues after two alleged violent attacks on staff in as many days saw workers walk off the job.

Talks between the union and justice department officials produce new "zero tolerance" rules on the behaviour of offenders and more powers for staff in violent situations, after alleged attacks on workers sent the centre into lockdown.

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Farmers struggling in the driest parts of Victoria will have access to an extra $31m in relief funds, days after the Federal Government announced an extension in drought support.

Billionaire Clive Palmer is accused of faking entries in a green notebook in a bid to justify draining Queensland Nickel of millions of dollars for anything he wanted before it collapsed in 2016, a court is told.

A prominent French journalist and his television crew are charged with trespass after being arrested while filming protesters near the Abbot Point coal terminal in north Queensland.

No charges will be laid against the organisers of a car festival that left Chaise Bouchere with horrific burns to his face and limbs, after the Northern Territory safety watchdog decided that funding future safety initiatives would be more beneficial.

A novice cameleer and three boys are on a six-month trek from the red centre to the east coast and they want to pick up a group of followers along the way.

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

The rufous hare-wallaby hasn't been seen in the wild of Central Australia since the early 1990s, but that's all changing at Newhaven Station.

Software developed with the help of Alice Spring medical staff and Indigenous people from remote communities is set to break down the language barrier and ease the stress of patients undergoing dialysis treatment.

Date palms in the central desert are a legacy of Afghan cameleers bringing a little bit of home with them. Today, Australian farmers are keen to grow the local date industry to feed the Middle East and the health food sector, while staving off cheap imports.

After three generations on the property, Mt Skinner Station north of Alice Springs has left family hands for the first time in its history.

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.

The largest remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia is rapidly running out of drinking water but it is just one of many communities in the region that have been struggling with finite groundwater supplies for many years.

Police recover the body of a 23-year-old Melbourne woman who was a passenger in a microlight aircraft that had crashed into Lake Eildon, in central Victoria. The pilot was rescued by a fishing boat and taken to hospital.

A man collapses and dies while hiking with a family member on a remote bush trail near Mount Sonder in Central Australia. It is the second death on the trail in 18 months.

Yolngu people in north-east Arnhem Land consider white ochre sacred and source it to use in ceremonies and art works. A recent discovery beneath a community art centre has the Yirrkala community celebrating.

A Central Australian pastoral family has bought a cattle property from a Middle Eastern sheikh for $10 million.

One week after the end of the Uluru climb, Parks Australia has flagged the first fee increase at the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in more than a decade and tourism operators could be the big losers.