• Cassandra Morgan

Boris Joy was one of just three bungy jump masters recorded in the last Census. Who else is in a league of their own?

Oil giant BP has its sights on drilling within a commonwealth marine reserve.

• Peter Hannam

While the current land clearing laws are clearly failing in NSW it's far from clear their repeal will make things any better.

The outbreak has rocked the industry and cut profits, Australia's biggest melon grower says.

• Nick McKenzie, Kate McClymont

In December last year, a mysterious punter walked into a Sydney TAB and asked for around $10,000 in cash to be placed into the TAB account belonging to a Victorian woman.

• Neelima Choahan

The Australian's Bill Leak, who has drawn flak over a cartoon he drew that has been widely condemned as racist, has described his critics as "tantrum-throwers" who are "sanctimonious Tweety Birds".

• Cosima Marriner

IVF clinics have been caught out offering flat payments to egg and sperm donors, which could constitute an illegal inducement.

• Cosima Marriner

Just two of the busload of UNSW college students who sang a sexist chant which referred to "banging" women every hour, have been disciplined.

• Nick McKenzie, Kate McClymont

Employees at TAB gaming outlets are breaching anti-money laundering controls by allowing controversial punters to place bets, collect winnings or shift funds through middle men and third-party betting accounts.

• Kate Aubusson

"Do patients need to be informed?" The outrageous suggestion tears at the edges of an extraordinary week for the state's health system that saw announced the exposure of three critical medical errors at three separate Sydney hospitals.

• Katie Burgess

Mr Lei, 29, moved to Australia to further his studies in 2011 and is completing his PhD on international relations.

• Cosima Marriner

Parents who can't help intervening in their children's schoolwork are raising their kids to be highly self-critical and prone to anxiety and depression.

• Paul Biegler

High-vis cyclists: when it comes to bike safety is brighter really better, or have we been sold the great fluoro fallacy?

• Timna Jacks

A popular teaching style embraced by teachers across Australia has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.

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• Chris Johnston

The Australian newspaper has been accused of inflaming already heightened racial tensions by publishing a cartoon criticising indigenous family values today.

• Rania Spooner

Australians are paying five times more than Britons for medical care, causing many people with chronic health conditions to forgo treatment because it's too expensive.

• Kelsey Munro

While politicians have traded blame for the underwhelming NAPLAN results this week, there are some schools trying to take a more rounded measure of student progress. And the insights are what many suspected all along: there are things that matter a lot more than a good test score.

• Simon White

Plenty of people have been followed home by a stray dog - but the tale of Australian ultramarathon runner Dion Leonard and Gobi and a 125-kilometre journey across China has turned into quite something else.

• Annabel Stafford

 In the three months between the post-miscarriage ultrasound that first found the mass in her abdomen and the surgery that finally identified it, the cancer grew from six centimetres to more than eleven, sprouted cancer-spreading fluid and caused her increasing pain. So when Bronwyn Grout woke from surgery to learn both her ovaries had been removed and she had a stage three ovarian cancer— and she would be lucky to survive five years—she was scared but not entirely surprised. The surprise came later.

• Kate Aubusson

A cancer patient caught up in the latest chemotherapy dosing scandal at a Sydney hospital said a senior hospital staff member told her not to "run to the media".

• Esther Han

Complaints against Medibank are escalating at a stunning rate.

• Timna Jacks

For girls at co-educational schools, the numbers just aren't adding up.

• Tom Cowie

Police have swooped on two men who allegedly imported 154 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden inside a shipment of timber.

• Marcus Strom

Unclear standards mean we aren't quite sure what we're feeding our favourite little purr balls.

• Christopher Knaus

Public servants no longer required to dob in colleagues who criticise government.

• Megan Gorrey

Federal police will pioneer cutting edge technology to help crack down on cybercriminals and terrorists from a major new forensic centre in the ACT.

• Michael Koziol

Australia should shut down all major youth detention centres and move young offenders into community-based programs, a leading US expert has recommended.

• Lucy Cormack

Australia's top number cruncher has promised a secure census, despite complaints about difficulties to access the form.

• Kelsey Munro

Education minister Adrian Piccoli has defended the NSW NAPLAN results, saying it would be "naive" to expect the new funding model to lead to a turnaround in the 2016 results.