DAILY BRIEFING: Tasmania's Speaker pauses parliament as tensions run high over her bid for a pay rise, and a police officer charged over the strip search of an 11-year-old boy indicates she'll plead guilty.

Initial investigations suggest the death of a man at Hadspen, near Launceston, is suspicious after receiving a request for assistance from paramedics.

Politicians bearing promises have disappointed many miners in Tasmania's wild west in recent times, but increasing demand for metals for electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels is now driving more exploration.

When Carol Westmore bought a farm near Launceston 15 years ago, she inadvertently embarked on a mammoth heritage-restoration project.

The accused Claremont serial killer, Bradley Edwards, has pleaded guilty to attacks on two women in the years leading up to the disappearance of Sarah Spiers.

Authorities downgrade the alert for a fire in Tasmania's Central Highlands which has destroyed more than 100 hectares.

Staff working in a government building in Tasmania thought they struck gold when they found an artwork by Pierre-Auguste Renoir on the office walls, but museum curators were able to confirm it was a reproduction when they magnified the image and saw there were pixels.

Turkeys bred on a farm in western Victoria are at the centre of the global fight to improve the flu vaccine.

A man who claims he can make it rain is building a following in the Victorian grain belt, where a group of farmers have paid for rainfall between May and October.

Eucalyptus oil production sounds like a distinctly Australian industry. While we once where the dominant player in the market, we've long been outpriced by cheap imports. Laura Poole reports that families, with a long history in this old art, are trying to keep up local production.

Director Roland Emmerich and writer John Orloff dip a quill in poison and stab Shakespeare in the back in this well made piece of revisionist history.

Anonymous is wonderful fun and a terrific movie, just don't mistake it for a coherent argument!

The trouble is that Coriolanus is such a one-note drama. Or melodrama. No wonder Bertholt Brecht decided back in the 1940s to write a new version.

It's a case of the battling therapists as Jung and Freud clash in David Cronenberg's thoughtful period piece.

A look at the birth of psychoanalysis and dark sexual desires which is unfortunately less spicy than required - hard to believe it's directed by David Cronenberg!

This cold, fascinating meditation on a key moment in medical theory and its bizarre fallout is both a kind of intellectual puzzle and great filmmaking.

A magical ride across Middle and Southern America, where giant deserted malls and collapsed motels are a backdrop to this beautifully shot paean to an America lost forever.

Ridley Scott returns to the world of science fiction with a bold, visually stunning film that offers some surprises and raises lots of questions.

If you thought the first Alien (or the third for that matter) was scary and out of control... strap yourself in!

An Adelaide community garden started as a hobby by a group of refugees wanting to grow vegetables from Africa and Asia is now proving so popular its produce is being sought interstate.

Police investigate two fires in North Adelaide early this morning, including one which spread through the state branch office of the national doctors' union, causing up to $2 million damage.

There are now only two active cases in the state, the State Government announces, but border restrictions will stay in place although travel to regional areas may be reopened.

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

Footy's back as grassroots rugby league is given the green light to return to the field by July.

From Ireland's heartland to coastal Victoria, Australian convicts brought with them magic and superstition. Their symbols are still being uncovered today.

For William Jane, the decline in Australian bread consumption has seen his business boom. In the space of two years, he's gone from baking 12 loaves a day to 800.

Australian dairy production is dropping, but a town in Victoria's Western District is taking advantage of changing consumer tastes to turn its fortunes around.

The world of Raj Manikam and his family came crashing down when a test found a hidden disease that could see them deported due to "significant costs to the community".

ANZ customers can no longer utilise banking services at their local post offices after the bank failed to reach an agreement with Australia Post on their Bank@Post service.

A dairy company that accused foreign workers of owing rent after allegations of underpayment arose has agreed to an out-of-court settlement.

Feral pigs capable of leaving behind industrial-looking trails of destruction are posing a threat to one of the world's most significant archaeological sites.

Industry figures say unstable weather, a lack of infrastructure investment and poor international prices are hampering sugar sector confidence as mills open for crushing.

Big business is set to be hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in extra taxes and royalties as the Palaszczuk Government seeks to tap the top end of town to deliver payroll tax relief to small- and medium-sized businesses, in the hope of boosting jobs particularly in regional Queensland.

Eyewear giant Specsavers has admitted that the personal information of some clients in Queensland is missing and may have been stolen.

An Australian medicinal cannabis company is working to address a global shortage of pharmaceutical-grade product, reducing cost and improving access at the same time.

Not long ago, Aboriginal people in Cherbourg were ruled by a government-appointed "protector". Now the elders are involved in running the courts.

A man who allegedly stabbed a woman in the hand and stole two cars is shot by police on the Bruce Highway on the Sunshine Coast, and is taken from the scene in an ambulance.

For police officers and young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the regional Queensland city of Bundaberg, boxing together is a way to move on from a legacy of negative interaction.

Almost 11,000 people sign an online petition demanding the Director of Public Prosecutions appeal the sentence of a Maryborough man who bashed a two-year-old girl, leaving her with a broken back in 2017, with the Queensland Opposition calling on the Palaszczuk Government to act immediately.