Dementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025, as Alzheimer's Australia calls for a national strategy to combat the disease.
Ongoing job cuts in Airservices Australia leave the network at "breaking point" and senior managers express fears the new regime is "a huge risk to public safety", an ABC investigation reveals.
A RSL club faces an extraordinary attack from Bec Cody over toilet wall tiles which depict Indigenous men — criticism the club says is "ridiculous" and "out of order".
This year's Anzac rugby league Test between Australia and New Zealand will be held in Canberra — and it is hoped new direct flights between the ACT and Wellington will mean bumper crowd figures for the game.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and a string of federal Nationals MPs are criticising the West Australian Liberals preference deal with One Nation — warning the agreement could cost them power in the state election.
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says today's extreme weather conditions have never been seen before, and fears the situation could trigger uncontrollable, deadly bushfires.
Almost anywhere you go in Canberra you will see cranes dotting the skyline, building the city's next hulking apartment towers. But is an oversupply likely, and is that a bad thing?
People who live in bushland areas with catastrophic fire conditions are told to leave their homes, as the NSW RFS issues emergency warnings for fires at Leadville near Dunedoo and Lower Pappinbarra, 50km west of Port Macquarie.
There are no signs of heat relief for Canberrans, with the temperature hitting 41 degrees Celsius for the second time in as many days, as ActewAGL reminds residents to monitor power usage to ease pressure on the grid.
Much of Australia is enduring an extreme heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 45C in parts of the country, and conditions are expected to worsen across the weekend.
There is an entire corner dedicated to One Nation senator Pauline Hanson's image at this year's Bald Archy Prize show — the satirical art prize that every year showcases an ever-revolving array of faces and stories to lampoon.
Malcolm Turnbull's blistering take-down of Bill Shorten has won him favour in his colleagues' eyes, but he needs to tread carefully to capitalise on it, Andrew Probyn writes.