• Darren Gray

More country communities should target international migrants as a "top priority" to help boost shrinking populations, a new study says.

• Christopher Knaus

Territory's public sector workforce will be legally compelled to dob in colleagues.

• Ross Peake

Aircraft debris possibly from MH370 being examined in Canberra.

• Markus Mannheim

There are now seven female department heads, more than at any other time.

• Henrietta Cook

Brighton Grammar has expelled two students who set up an Instagram account that featured photos of young girls and invited people to vote for the "slut of the year".

• Henrietta Cook

The United Nations has been asked to investigate dozens of incidents where children with a disability were assaulted, locked in dark rooms and restrained in Australian schools.

• Bridie Smith

Scientists are close to developing a blood test to detect Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms appear.

• ANALYSIS
• Adam Morton

We know that childcare costs are ever rising, but the latest data - from the Melbourne Institute, which has been tracking the changing nature of how Australians live since 2001 - sets out the pressure on household budgets clearly.

• Rachel Browne

A royal commission has heard the growth of the NDIS would create workforce pressures.

• Andrew Taylor

The NSW government will not guarantee the future of the National Art School as students embark on campaign to save the institution from merger. 

• EXCLUSIVE
• Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard

Australian police have flown to Britain to help in the "bribery, corruption and money laundering" case involving oil services firm Unaoil.

• Kate Aubusson

A wave of gastroenteritis outbreaks in daycare centres and aged care homes has sent more than 3,300 young children and adults to NSW emergency departments.

• Kate Aubusson

To all the parents making a frantic dash down the baby food aisle: you're doing just fine.

• Markus Mannheim

Fair Work Commission rules there was 'no justification for the non-performance of duties'.

• Peter Martin

If you think you are worse off despite a raft of economic statistics saying things are getting better, you're probably right.

• Beau Donelly

Rising childcare costs are heaping more financial pressure on Australian families at a time when soaring house prices mean many are struggling to buy their first home or pay off a big mortgage.

• Rania Spooner

Not the smokes, booze, or even a disability has a negative impact on the exercise regime of the average Aussie bloke.

• Rania Spooner, Corinna Lagerberg

Australian men who smoke, drink and live out of the city are fitter than women and exercise more than their clean-living mates, a national study has found.

To find out what makes Australians tick, the researchers running the University of Melbourne's Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey have been tracking the lives of more 19,000 Australians in 17,000 households. 

• Rania Spooner

Australian households are spending about 20 per cent more on health insurance than they were in 2006 and older couples have experienced even steeper rises.

• Cassandra Morgan

Yoga should be made a mandatory part of the school curriculum, the founder of Connect Kids Yoga believes.

• Jonathan Friedlaender

New drugs arrived in time to help me, but the development process is difficult and the cost is high.

• Markus Mannheim

Expert says competition to become far more intense in coming years.

• Tom Hobson

The Royal Australian Mint officially launched a limited edition $2 coin on Tuesday to celebrate the up-coming Olympic and Paralympic games in Brazil.

• Harriet Alexander

The most celebrated cancer hospital in Australia is an outlier for poor performance on measures such as symptom severity and patients' participation in their care.

• Rachel Browne

The country's peak disability advocacy body has slammed groups that cover up sex abuse claims.

• Eryk Bagshaw

Mandatory literacy and numeracy standards, a crackdown on cheats and scaling boost for higher maths are on the way.

• Esther Han

The Palace Cinemas chain has fallen foul of the ACCC over its ticketing process. But it says the penalty is "unfair".

• EXCLUSIVE
• Esther Han

We know the ethical issues around free range eggs, but how about the mass killings of millions of male chicks?