• Natasha Boddy

Pregnancy may not be the best time for obese mothers-to-be to shed the kilograms with research finding it is usually "too little, too late" for any meaningful benefit. 

• Markus Mannheim

APS head say many SES officers have lost non-salary benefits.

• Beau Donelly

Customs is cracking down on shipments of life-like child sex dolls that paedophiles are importing into Australia.

• Kelsey Munro

A school group has distanced itself from controversial One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.

• Michael Evans

A spurned wife discovered that her husband had used part of the family's wealth to buy a property for his mistress. 

• Harriet Alexander

Some medical specialties are more inclined to disregard guidelines on antibiotic use, with orthopaedic surgeons at Royal North Shore Hospital the top offenders among those who skipped the approval process for restricted drugs.

• Rania Spooner and Julia Medew

The former medical director of a besieged weight loss clinic has been banned from prescribing a peptide with no proven weight loss properties, as complaints mount against the Medical Weightloss Institute.

• Adam Gartrell

Australia's top cyber security agency is reaching out to high schools students as it seeks to build an army of "white hat" hackers.

• Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard

ASIO's monitoring of the aggressive right-wing extremist movement uncovered alleged plans to attack an "extreme left" target, and led to the arrest last week of Braybrook man Phillip Galea.

• Chris Johnston

"People will want to invest in him."

• Julie Power

"There will be flurry of activity, and money will start pouring in."

• Gina McColl

A deal struck struck by the Victorian Government with Crown Casino to retrain 500 retrenched workers in return for a lucrative extension to its monopoly gambling licence has enrolled just 10 so far. The revelation has put its taxpayer-subsidised private training facility in the spotlight.

• 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

• COMMENT
• 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.

• Chris Johnston

He lives in jail now but for more than two years, while blackmailing young Australian girls to send him pornographic selfies on social media, he lived alone in a dirty garage in outer Melbourne.

• Adam Gartrell

Australia's paramilitary Border Force is charging taxpayers for regular visits to a luxury coastal resort.

• Peter Munro

When was the last time you went for a walk? For many of us, the notion of walking for pure pleasure might as well be science-fiction.

• 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