Good Weekend writer Jane Cadzow was profiling the high-flying Labor senator just as the revelations of who paid his bills blew up in his face.

There’s no postie on a pushbike out here. For far-flung communities in Western Australia’s huge Kimberley region, letters, supplies and even exam papers arrive only one way – by air.

When this vet documented the appalling conditions faced by Australian animals on live-export ships, she lost her job.

Like humans, trees warn each other of danger, look after sick family members and thrive in communities.

It represents 200,000-plus low-paid workers – so why is it so keen on selling them out while swanning off on moral crusades?

On September 4, Mother Teresa became a saint. How did she reach such holy heights in near-record time?

Over lunch at his home, John Olsen shares a lifetime of insights into landscape, poetry and painting.

Two schoolgirls in Bali rallied against the blight of plastic refuse. Now the rest of Indonesia is following suit.

Timber buildings are reaching towards the skies, thanks to breakthroughs in super-strong wood.

Australian artist Lynette Wallworth uses emerging technologies to deal with topics including global warming and refugees in unexpected ways.

Why translating the Melbourne icon's artwork onto cloth made designer Lisa Gorman nervous.

Take a tour of the tiny, as rising prices and shrinking space force a rethink of the great Australian home-owning dream.

Specially adapted drones are offering new hope to organ transplant recipients.

Ricky Gervais is reviving his most cringe-inducing character, David Brent, to expose the ugliness of modern-day bullying and the foibles of older men.

A suburban dad’s poor decisions lead him to jail. How does his incredulous wife – and mother to his two children – adjust to the stiff sentence?

Considering racing up the 1500-plus steps of Sydney Tower, or Eureka Tower? Canberra's Mark Bourne has some advice.

The rants and the outbursts have exacted a price, but the Hollywood bad boy says he's ready to get on with life.

Terrorism, an influx of refugees and a leader more sympathetic to Islam are combining to create new tensions in Turkey – and an ancient neighbourhood in Istanbul.

Described as the “Don Bradman of sea-level science”, John Church’s sacking from the CSIRO left many observers gobsmacked. Can we – Australia and the rest of the planet – really afford to let him go?

Breakfast with birthers, an afternoon flag-burning, and lots of hateful Hillary masks. Welcome to the circus.