A hundred years ago people with an intellectual disability were locked up in "lunatic asylums". Today they're still locked away it's just behind the walls of suburbia,writes Alison Branley.
A top-order batting collapse is set to cost Australia any chance of a rare series win in India, with the hosts on the verge of victory in the fourth Test in Dharamsala.
eX de Medici's eye-catching painting, Cure for Pain, a four-metre-long depiction of mortality and equality in death, is acquired by the Australian War Memorial.
A hundred years ago people with an intellectual disability were locked up in "lunatic asylums". Today they're still locked away it's just behind the walls of suburbia,writes Alison Branley.
Engineers are frantically working to solve engine problems on the Royal Australian Navy's two largest ships, with fears the Landing Helicopter Docks could be out of action for several weeks.
Victims waited too long for a response to their suffering and protection of children should be a top priority in Australia, says the chair of the royal commission into child sexual abuse.
The Northern Territory government indicates there will be fewer public servants and government programs that will not be renewed, after a $2 billion hit to GST funding.
Cyclone Debbie is just hours away from making landfall in north Queensland, possibly as a category five storm, with winds of up to 190kph already battering the Whitsunday Islands.
A new forum, Passion Cafe, hears from Muslim women as they discuss their experiences with racism in Australia and reject the notion they are oppressed.
Sewage analysis showing one Tasmanian location as having the highest usage of MDMA of anywhere in Australia "could be the result of a music festival", a top anti-crime figure says.
Melbourne is planning for hundreds of new apartments in the inner city, and more than a dozen new suburbs in the outer sprawl. So how does family life in the booming centre compare to the expanding fringes?
Half of the homeowners caught up in the collapse of a Victorian building company will now have their homes completed by alternative builders, administrators say.
The Western Force reject reports the Super Rugby franchise is set to be axed from the competition, with chief executive Mark Sinderberry saying he is confident the team "will survive".
The world's first commercially viable clear, solar glass is developed in Western Australia, and is being viewed as a game changer for the renewable energy industry.
Aboriginal activist Geoffrey Stokes tells a court he was defending a culturally significant location when he fired a rifle during a confrontation at a Goldfields mine site.
