MELBOURNE NAMED WORLD'S MOST LIVEABLE CITY, FOR FIFTH YEAR RUNNING

Melbourne has topped The Economist's liveability rankings for a fifth consecutive year... READ MORE›

FOR VULNERABLE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN JAPAN, A CULTURE OF 'DATES' WITH OLDER MEN

Here, high school dating matches girls in uniforms with men in their 40s and 50s and beyond... READ MORE›

ADELAIDE KIDS WIN WORLD 'ROBOTIC OLYMPICS' IN US

Trinity College students crowned world's best robot builders at FIRST Global competition... READ MORE›

DEBRIS MAY SHED LIGHT ON MISSING JETS LAST MOMENTS

"For this reason, thorough and methodical search efforts will continue to be focused on the defined underwater search area, covering 120,000 square kilometers, in the southern Indian Ocean," he said ..... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

PHIL WALSH ADELAIDE CROWS COACH KILLED AT HOME

Phil Walsh the coach of the Australian Football League's Adelaide Crows has been found stabbed to death at his home South Australia Police say... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA'S BELEAGUERED ABBOTT ENDURES ONE FINAL NIGHTMARE BEFOREA CHRISTMAS

The problem is, neither he nor the prime minister has managed to explain that satisfactorily to voters... READ MORE›

A reef campaigner with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Felicity Wishart, said the report contained no measurable, deliverable action... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA PRESSED TO SAY IF SMUGGLERS WERE PAID

Migrants from the boat gave that account to workers for a United Nations refugee agency in Indonesia a United Nations official said Friday... READ MORE›

'THIS IS NOT POLITICS, IT'S SURVIVAL'

Sydney Pacific island nations under threat from rising seas have warned that climate talks in Paris represent the last chance to save them from obliteration... READ MORE›

CLIMATE CHANGE COMPOUNDING THREATS TO AUSTRALIA'S ECOSYSTEMS, STUDIES FIND

Climate change compounding threats to Australia's ecosystems, studies find... READ MORE›

SYRIAN REFUGEES TOLD TO READ THIS GOVERNMENT BOOK BEFORE BEING RESETTLED IN AUSTRALIA

The booklet provided to all people seeking permanent residency reveals the extent of cultural orientation refugees are expected to undergo as they settle in Australia... READ MORE›

ITS A GIRL SOMETIMES UNWELCOME IN AUSTRALIA

However, the United Nations Population Fund says that any ratio above 106 suggests there is some kind of human intervention... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIANS SUBJECT TO 'CASTE DISCRIMINATION', MIGRANTS SAY

So far, a caste discrimination case has not reached the Australian courts... READ MORE›

HSC RESULTS 2015: TOP 20 HSC SCHOOLS REVEALED

Selective schools and high-fee-paying, all-girls schools have dominated the 2015 HSC results... READ MORE›

PRIME MINISTER TONY ABBOTT SAYS BORDER FORCE OPERATION FORTITUDE RELEASE WAS A 'MISTAKE'

Tony Abbott has denied his office had any knowledge of the cancelled Australian Border Force operation in Melbourne... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN SPORTS GO IN SEARCH OF FEMALE FANS

Australian Rugby Union's ARU chief executive officer Bill Pulver admits there are too many men dominating sport at all levels... READ MORE›

FIRST DAY: THE PIONEERING SURGEON WHO CAME TO AUSTRALIA ON A LEAKY BOAT

It's hard to say exactly what was the first day Dr Munjed Al Muderis spent in Australia... READ MORE›

INTELLECTUALLY-DISABLED AUSTRALIAN COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA

In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... READ MORE›

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY TO PUSH FOR AUSTRALIA TO ADOPT 'CLEAN, AFFORDABLE POWER'

The move is the latest attempt to overturn legal obstacles to nuclear energy generation in Australia... READ MORE›

COMMENT: GEORGE CHRISTENSEN MAKES ME EMBARRASSED TO BE A QUEENSLANDER

But unluckily for those of us in the Sunshine State, embarrassing politicians are not a thing of the past... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER PHILIP HUGHES DIES AFTER BEING HIT BY BALL

Australian cricketers have gathered at the Sydney Cricket Ground and wandered out one-by-one to pay tribute to Phillip Hughes on the pitch where he was killed... READ MORE›

COMMENT: COMPASSION ADRIFT - UNDOING AUSTRALIA'S ASYLUM SEEKER APATHY

Most Australians don't sit down and consider human rights abuse or the plight of refugees... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN MUSLIMS BEING FORCED TO ASSIMILATE, ISLAMIC CONFERENCE TOLD

Hizb Ut-Tarir first held a conference like this one two years ago... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN TEENAGERS ATTACK ON POLICE WORKER CALLED ACT OF TERRORISM

The police in Australia have been on high alert since a lone gunman took hostages in a cafe in central Sydney in December last year... READ MORE›

MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY JOIN COMPACT OF MAYORS COALITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Melbourne and Sydney have joined an international coalition of cities that have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and advocate for action on climate change... READ MORE›

CELEBRITIES SUGAR-COAT REALITY OF FOREIGN ADOPTION, ADULT ADOPTEES SAY

The convention focused on children, stating that their needs must be at the front and centre of all intercountry adoptions... READ MORE›

COMMENT: RENT OR BUY? LET'S DO THE SUMS

Renting beats buying in 16 of the 25 scenarios and by 8.4 percent in our 'base case' of 5.5 percent property growth and 7.5 percent investment portfolio growth... READ MORE›

MANUS REFUGEES 'DENIED WORK, TRAVEL RIGHTS'

Australia and Papua New Guinea's memorandum of understanding says those moved to East Lorengau will be treated with dignity and respect under the relevant human-rights conventions... READ MORE›

PRIME MINISTER TONY ABBOTT SAYS BORDER FORCE OPERATION FORTITUDE RELEASE WAS A 'MISTAKE'

Tony Abbott has denied his office had any knowledge of the cancelled Australian Border Force operation in Melbourne... READ MORE›