Rural Fire Service faces accusations of bullying and nepotism

A hearing was told 48 per cent of RFS members had witnessed bullying.

Sydney Open: the secrets of what really goes on behind closed doors

Underground. Overground. Wandering around the highest towers in Sydney or paddling through dank, disused railway tunnels in borrowed (possibly the wrong size) wellies. We can't get enough of it.

Historic surprise in Sydney CBD as 1960s office block demolished

Demolition of a 1960s tower block at the old Menzies Hotel at Wynyard has delivered an historic surprise.

Contents of speedway champ's Gold Coast garage to be auctioned by Bonhams

What Jack Brabham was to Formula One, so Ivan Mauger✓ was to motorcycle speedway racing. You name it, he won it. Six times world champion, three times world Long track Champion, twice Australasian champion in 1997 and 1981 and four times champ in New Zealand, his home country. No wonder he was voted Millennium Man of Speedway and selected to carry the Olympic Torch at the Sydney Games. He also received an OBE and MBE.

From WestConnex to the Mongolian plains of Genghis Khan

Belinda Ritchie is a member of a four-woman Australian team about to compete in a race across the Gobi Desert in Mongolia on horseback.

Wartime women lifesavers to receive their medals after 75 years

Women surf lifesavers were told "Get out of town. We don't have women!"

Dishwasher tablets: Campaign to eradicate products that aren't squeaky clean

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DoSomething today launchs a campaign to ban phosphates in automatic dishwasher detergents.

From Virgin First Officer to the only Australian Focke-Wulf German fighter pilot

By day Chris Mayr is a First Officer for Virgin flying 737s. But then, unknown until now to his Virgin colleagues, there is his other side.

Bid to turn back tide on storm damaged sea nymphs

Hopes to raise $40,000 to cast a new bronze of Oceanides