Want to help build better world? Margaret Wheatley is training 'Warriors for the Human Spirit. Want to see the world in a new light? Riz Virk argues we are all living in a computer simulation.

The Edinburgh-born art critic and biographer spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about investigating the real story behind her mother’s disappearance as a child in 1929.

Weighing up Turnbull’s legacy This week, former Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull published his memoir A Bigger Picture.  In it he settles old scores with colleagues over his 2018 ousting, which he describes as an “act of madness.” What is his legacy, and how will history judge our nation’s twenty ninth Prime Minister? Jacqueline Maley, columnist at The Sydney Morning Herald. Jennifer Oriel, columnist at The Australian   And, the death of a führer April 30th marks seventy-five years since Hitler’s suicide. Cambridge historian Brendan Simms challenges past scholarship on the führer, and argues that Hitler saw Anglo-American global capitalism, not Bolshevism – as Germany’s real enemy. He says this philosophical link reveals worrying connections between Hitler and the rise of populism today. Brendan Simms, Professor in the History of International Relations at Cambridge University, and author of Hitler: Only the World was Enough.  

One man's rescue of a four-year-old girl from a fire 80 years ago has been formally recognised, and now the girl he saved wants to give something back to his family.

When outback pioneering single mother Mary Emmott started rainfall records in 1914 she had no idea how important they would be.

Most beef you eat comes from around two-year-old cattle, but some farmers are singing the praises of dry-aged beef from what they call "vintage" cows.

Alice says the tobacco tax increase won't act as an incentive to break the addiction because smoking already has a "hold" on her life.

A typical show day for Gary Clarke involves getting up early to wash and blow-dry his Hereford cattle before the crowds arrive. It is dedication like this which has helped the humble Burnie Show reach its 100th year.

Director Garry Marshall and a host of famous faces throw out some bland and predictable confetti to usher in the new year.

This uneven rom-com charts a rocky path and ends up being more Funny People than Bridesmaids.

Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Jackie Weaver

Christopher is 10, blind, and has his own ABC Grandstand segment.

One hundred years since construction began on the Great Ocean Road, the world-renowned tourist attraction is under threat from erosion, landslides and booming tourist numbers. But a record funding boost and the the biggest roadworks blitz of recent decades is now underway in a bid to secure the road for another century.

Almost two years after millions of microplastics spilled onto pristine beaches in Victoria and sparked an emergency response from authorities, the plastic's origin remains a mystery.

Oddball might have been the movie star, but Tula the maremma is the real hero of Middle Island's famed penguin protection program, and she's retiring after almost a decade of service.

When cattle farmer Lindsay Titmarsh decided to carbon date a grey mangrove that had caught his eye on his Queensland property, he discovered it was the oldest known mangrove in Australia.

Doctors are shocked by how quickly this season's flu is striking down the young and healthy. Last year, Amanda Nix was doing Tough Mudder, but a few weeks ago she was struck down with the infection, blacking out in an emergency ward as it took hold.

A Queensland great grandmother recalls the challenges of life on the land as she celebrates a century in the rural town of Biggenden.

Scientists are stunned by the discovery of the well-preserved body of an 18,000-year-old puppy in far-eastern Russian Siberia, but experts are unsure whether it was a dog or a wolf.

Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who claims he made the world's first "gene-edited" babies by altering human embryos in 2018, is convicted on charges of practising medicine illegally, according to Chinese state media.

Dr Geoff Thompson was recently recognised as the 2020 NT Australian of the year for his work coordinating the evacuation of injured people following the devastation of Darwin by Cyclone Tracy in 1974.  

In 2007 Oliver Percovich followed his then-girlfriend to Kabul Afghanistan. To keep himself entertained he rode his skateboard around the city, attracting the attention of curious local kids. 

The principal violinist for the Australian Chamber Orchestra spent her childhood in Japan and Finland as part of a Finnish Lutheran missionary family.

Inspiring individuals talk about a pivotal moment in their personal histories. This week, veteran journalist and commentator Mike Carlton reflects on the formative experience of reporting on the US invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam war. 

Inspiring individuals talk about a pivotal moment in their personal histories. This week, children's book author, broadcaster and film maker, Tony Wilson.

Inspiring individuals talk about a pivotal moment in their personal histories. This week, historian Michelle Arrow 

As the voluntary assisted dying debate rages in Western Australia, David Goodall's family is still processing the 104-year-old's decision to travel to Switzerland to end his life.

A teenage driver is jailed for running a red light and fatally crashing her car at high speed into an elderly woman in the Perth suburb of Floreat.

A career criminal who was banned for life from driving is jailed for crashing a stolen car into a family's van, ploughing it into a Woolworths truck and claiming the life of a five-year-old boy and injuring six of his relatives.

Forecasters are predicting more hot weather to come after the city recorded an average maximum temperature 2.6C higher than normal and received less than half its average rainfall for the month.

A 22-year-old Perth man accused of using a cigarette lighter and boiling water to deliberately inflict serious burns on a two-year-old girl he was looking after claims she pulled a pot of boiling noodles onto herself.

The WA Government gives the go-ahead for junior drag racing in WA to restart, after it was suspended following the 2017 death of eight-year-old Anita Board, but lifts the minimum age to 10.

A year after Lachie Yeo was killed in a crash on a WA highway, the man who caused the accident and who was high on drugs when he drove onto the wrong side of the road is jailed for six years.

More than 60 West Australian homes and businesses are having their electricity cut off on an average day for failing to pay their bills, with the number more than doubling in just three years.

Almost two centuries on, families in Western Australia's south-west are still waiting for proper recognition of one of the state's bloodiest days but they hope change will come about soon.

Perth's heart transplant unit opened for business 25 years ago. Since then almost 200 people have received new hearts.

Despite a blast of icy air delivering gusty showers and hail to south western parts of WA this week, the state just posted its second-warmest October on record and the driest in 40 years.

Jamie knows more than most how difficult life can be on the public housing wait list and despite an improvement, the process can still be painfully long even for those most in need.

Almost 20 years after she first sought help for an eating disorder, single mother Amanda Baldi says she feels no closer to recovery in a state without a single residential treatment centre.

Brisbane parents Lachlan and Kristin Ryan are keeping their energetic daughter Sophia entertained while in lockdown with games and obstacle courses.

A high-tech telescope situated in Western Australia's desert discovers a galaxy almost five billion light-years away.

When Grammy-nominated American jazz performer Joey DeFrancesco sold his blonde-coloured Hammond B3 organ over eBay to an Australian bidder, he had one condition. That it be made available when he played in Australia.