After almost dropping out of school in year 10, Indigenous student Joseph Bin Omar returns to his high school to establish an award to encouraging other Aboriginal students to pursue education.
In the sparsely populated Northern Territory, a charity's national phone call initiative has evolved into a personal service connecting strangers with people who sometimes fear dying alone.
Ron Junghans has been pruning and prepping his Christmas trees for weeks in readiness for the festive season when families run around his farm searching for the best looking pine.
A Queensland singer with Down syndrome says it is a "dream come true" to perform alongside the state's best operatic voices in a rare collaboration with Opera Queensland.
Australian Federal Police join forces with the Make-A-Wish foundation to grant an unusual request from a 12-year-old cancer patient, organising a day at a training village so he can "blow stuff up".
Grazing peacefully on pastures just outside Muswellbrook in the NSW Upper Hunter, around 50 retired racehorses have found a new home at St Heliers Correctional Centre.
Thirteen-year-old Tanya is not letting profound deafness get in the way of her musical talents — she uses her instrument's vibrations to work out the notes she's playing.
For 15 years, Ross Wallace has been a 'grandfather' to Prep students at a north Queensland school, providing friendship, knowledge, and stories from "the good old days".
Residents of a small town in Canada are being invited to pay their parking fines forward by donating to charity as part of the town's Christmas-inspired Scrooge the Ticket program.
By Professor Richard Vella, Shane Homan and Tracy Redhead
In Australia, musicians' total income actually went up last year. While the music industry still faces many challenges, there is now a worldwide push to boost artists' royalties paid by streaming services such as Spotify.
Julian Scharf was devastated when he rapidly lost hearing and was left "pretty much totally deaf". But this papa's got a brand new bag — a cochlear implant — and he threw a party to celebrate the music that shaped his life.