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A report by the nation's energy regulator recommends a multi-billion-dollar investment in electricity infrastructure — such as a second interconnector with South Australia — to help secure the stability of Australia's power grid.
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Families living in remote parts of the Northern Territory say they are struggling more than anyone in Australia to access appropriate education, such as boarding schools, for their children.
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Australian scientists in Antarctica hail a $45-million funding boost as a "game-changer" that will allow them to step up their search for the "holy grail of climate science" — the Million-Year Ice Core.
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"We've seen the other kids in the town go off to university and get jobs and get married. We've still got our 24-year-olds doing the same thing. I'm still showering, packing lunches." Sue and David Hillier still have to care for their twin girls, who have intellectual disabilities, as if they're small children.
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Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey says she "didn't kill Aborigines" and does not support MONA's focus on Tasmania's "difficult history" for Macquarie Point.
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Mitchell Barbieri, who stabbed to death Sydney police officer Bryson Anderson four years ago, has 11 years taken off his sentence for murder, with the victim's family calling it a disgrace.
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There will only be one runway to start off with when it enters operation in the mid 2020s, but the Badgerys Creek Airport is now closer to reality with the Prime Minister giving the official green light.
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New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English is selected as the country's new leader after the ruling National Party votes him to power in a special caucus meeting.
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The South Australian Government needs to show more support for a proposal to grow medicinal cannabis at Holden's Elizabeth factory once the site is vacated in 2017, the State Opposition says.
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Western Australia's business and tourism leaders welcome direct 17-hour Qantas flights between Perth and London, saying it will be a "terrific service" that will "lift the whole economy".
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Hundreds of protesters gather outside Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral demanding revenge for the bombing which killed 25 people, in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in years.
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Global methane gas emissions are growing at the fastest rate in decades, and rice paddies, livestock and landfill are a big part of the problem, new analysis reveals.
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At least 100 iPads owned by Education Queensland are missing, but the department admits it has no idea how many iPads have been distributed through schools across the state.
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Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs says she regrets any offence taken by politicians whom she described as "ill-informed and uneducated" after an interview she gave earlier this year.
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The thought of going into aged care is distressing for someone like Ellen Bucello, who was subjected to neglect and abuse in state care as a child.
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About 1,300 animal parts, including those of native animals like wedge-tailed eagles and brolgas, are found at a Darwin house in one of the largest hauls of its kind in Australian history.
