'The mining boom will never end: coal is forever'

Is the state banking on extracting increasing amounts of coal for another 40 years?

Strength in Numbers

Strength in Numbers

'It's a huge wake up call'

Research reveals more than one-third of the coral reefs of the central and northern regions of the ...

Flawed policies punish modern families: study

Federal Government policy is punishing families with caring responsibilities, according to new ...

Call for working hours to be capped

Working hours should be more effectively capped at 38 hours a week to make it easier for men to ...

60 Minutes: Michael Usher apologises for 'serious mistakes'

It's a feeling others in their mid-thirties might relate to: 60 Minutes has gazed hard into the ...

Callers to domestic violence hotline lose direct access to counsellors

Callers to the national sexual assault and domestic violence hotline will no longer have ...

APS wants public servants silenced: union

Orders from the Australian Public Service Commission to its workers to stop them speaking out ...

Untapping refugee skills and talent through internships

As a refugee from Syria looking for work in Australia, Nirary Dacho is neither illiterate nor ...

'We think it's not right, but it's really hard': Questions raised over Confucius Classrooms

The Chinese government's soft power outreach body is paying NSW public schools $10,000 to hold ...

Travel tips

The real reason we freak out on planes

We are not our best selves on airplanes. But why do we keep acting like this?

H&M; workers fired for being pregnant: report

The fast fashion giant has opened 16 shops in Australia in two years - but foreign workers are ...

New concussion guidelines for children as concern grows about sporting knocks

Children with suspected concussion will be sidelined from contact sport for at least two weeks ...

Opinions split on irradiation food labelling

While most industry groups and corporations are supportive of removing labelling, all but one of ...

Marshall splitting opinions as CSIRO leader

One sunny afternoon last September, more than 250 handpicked members of the Commonwealth Scientific ...

Sydney and much of Australia caught in a hot spell

May and autumn will come close to being a record warm ones for Sydney, the state and the rest of ...

Labor Party head office embroiled in vote-rigging claims

The fallout from the charging of former ALP party boss Jamie Clements with misuse of the electoral ...

'Facing your worst fear every day'

Peta Murchison has given people a tiny glimpse into the "weird universe you find yourself living in ...

Disgraced blogger Belle Gibson could be forced to apologise for lies

Disgraced blogger Belle Gibson could be forced to publicly apologise for claiming to have cured her ...

The skill that 65 per cent more employers want

Cassandra Mao is backing humans in the tech race.

Workplace

'Mean girl' culture must go

Female career climbers have been urged to leave the ladder down instead of pulling it behind them ...

Behaviour change programs work for two thirds of DV perpetrators

Two thirds of violent men who attend behaviour change programs completely stop abusing their ...

DV leave

Domestic violence leave would mean fewer jobs for women: Cash

Minister for Women's comments are "beyond bizarre" says public service union.

It's all in the genes: How your parents can make you stay at school longer

The genes you inherit from your parents have a say in how long you stay at school and whether you ...

Is this why NSW childcare is the most expensive in the country?

The Auditor-General says the government has hoarded hundreds of millions in funding budgeted for ...