• Michael Koziol

Saturday marks 12 years since the Howard government amended the Marriage Act to exclude same-sex couples. Gay marriage wasn't even really on the radar here, but the big concern was that people who got hitched overseas would seek to have that recognised back in Australia.

• Timna Jacks

Australian school students are being taught to rub their ears, massage their jaw, and imagine the letter X, in order to improve their learning.

• Julia Medew

Aggrieved patients describe the doctor as a man who built up their trust before indecently assaulting them and cleverly disguising it as legitimate medical treatment

• Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard

An alleged extreme right-wing activist charged with terrorism offences is suspected by authorities of plotting to attack the far-left political movement.

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• Peter Hannam

With the chief executive's contract still under a cloud is it time for him to go?

• Natasha Boddy

ACT public servants will be encouraged to don the lycra and get cycling under a new government workplace trial of electric bikes to encourage them to be more active and environmentally friendly.

• Josh Dye

Fairfax Media journalist Jewel Topsfield received the prestigious Lowy Institute Media Award at a ceremony in Sydney on Thursday night. 

• Kelsey Munro

A spirited debate between vice-chancellors had one point of general agreement: the university sector is chronically underfunded.

• Katie Burgess

While millions of Australians were unable to log onto the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Census website on Tuesday night, thousands of other users met with similar frustration after misspelling the name of the national survey.

• Craig Butt

Tommee Tippee super soft comforters are being recalled over safety fears.

• 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.

• John Silvester

Now 44 years after he was forced to resign because he cared more for children than his professional future, he has been vindicated in the very office where his career was destroyed.

• 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.