• Nick McKenzie

Crime syndicates are hitting back at efforts to combat the booming illicit tobacco trade.

• Markus Mannheim

Immigration and Border Force officers will be joined by quarantine and biosecurity staff.

• Peter Hannam

Gridlocked roads might not seem the obvious place to build mini-power plants but one company has different ideas

• Henrietta Cook

Students of Australia, you are being watched. Not only in the lecture hall, but every time you log on and even when you walk across the campus. 

• Kelsey Munro

Sydney College of the Arts jobs will be slashed in half as courses are scrapped

• John Silvester

Up to 120 Australian Tax Office and Australian Securities and Investment Commission investigators yesterday raided 13 Melbourne and Brisbane offices and homes as part of a major investigation into corrupt bankruptcy businesses.

• Kelsey Munro

Donna Loughran knows the challenges facing her students better than most.

• Megan Backhouse

Before bush tomatoes, finger limes and wattle seeds, there was eucalyptus oil.

• Lucy Cormack

The 2016 census program will cost Australian taxpayers around $470 million over five years.

• Harriet Alexander

Patients were left waiting up to an hour for emergency care when demand for ambulances suddenly peaked.

• Markus Mannheim

Bureaucrats are also being promoted far more slowly than they were a decade ago.

• Julia Medew

The controversial use of chaperones to oversee doctors accused of serious misconduct, including sexual offences, is being reviewed by the Medical Board of Australia.  

• Kate Aubusson

The census website was shut down after being attacked by foreign hackers, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.

• Harriet Alexander

An annual survey of admitted patients in NSW has indicated "clear areas for improvement".

• Georgina Mitchell

As the Bureau of Statistics apologised for an "outage" in the online operation of the Census, an expert in large-scale computer operations says they should have expected it to happen.

• Chloe Booker

Australians might have been pulling their hair out in frustration as they tried to fill out the census on Tuesday night, but their Prime Minister had no such difficulty.

• Georgina Mitchell

People trying to complete the census online have been met with error messages and told the system is "overloaded".

• Georgina Mitchell

Six Fairfax Media journalists have been named as finalists in this year's Lowy Institute Media Award.

• Julia Medew and Nick McKenzie

Nearly 50 doctors accused of violating sexual boundaries are working under a controversial chaperone system that allegedly failed three patients last year.

Education Directorate, Health and Justice were the biggest spenders on ACT Government credit cards in 2015.

• Lucy Cormack

The nation's biggest survey is tonight. Are you ready to join more than 1 million people who have already completed the census?

• Daniella Miletic, Megan Levy

The nation's first digital census day is finally here, but privacy concerns and fears of an internet meltdown are still in full swing.

• Bridie Smith

Gaming can boost students' school performance and should be incorporated into classroom activities.

• Craig Butt

There are 16 people in Australia who were born in Antarctica, according to the last census.

• Alexandra Back

The National Museum of Australia is acquiring a historic Bedford truck.

• Rachel Browne

People with disability may be put at risk by a move to radically cut the conditions of their support workers.

• Kelsey Munro

UTS has joined forces with special effects company Animal Logic to offer a new postgraduate degree in animation and visual effects, in a joint venture pitched at making Australia a leader in the burgeoning virtual reality industry.

Even babies born a second before midnight will be counted in Tuesday's census.

• 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?