The town of Palu stretches out across a flat plain made fertile with river sediments. It's at the head of a narrow bay sheltered by high mountains that drop steeply into the sea.
The Melbourne Storm's major shareholders have announced they are assessing the viability of a fan-ownership model akin to the Green Bay Packers of the NFL.
Ben Farinazzo joined the Australian Army in 1991 and was discharged in 2002. Farinazzo graduated from the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) and Royal Military College (RMC) Duntroon and was p...
Australian cyber security agencies have played a part in exposing the role of Russian military intelligence units behind a spate of major global hacking attacks. The Australian Cyber Security Centr...
Almost one in five Australian honey samples, including some expensive boutique honey, are fake, according to a ground-breaking study that tested samples of local and international branded honey.
Driven by a strong commitment to animal rights, Melbourne taxidermist and jeweller Julia DeVille works with animals that have died of natural causes, combining them with precious gems to raises que...
The claim - The ousting of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has exposed simmering discontent within the Liberal Party over its attitude towards women, amid claims female MPs were bullied duri...
RELATED STORY: Twins set to go their own way Surgeons from Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital will attempt to separate 14-month-old conjoined twins who have arrived...
From the beaches of Bondi to the red centre, each year tens of thousands of young backpackers make the trek to Australia for a year of work and travel.
China is a boom market for Australian wine. For the first time, our winemakers have hit the billion dollar mark in our biggest export market. But now the Chinese are pushing back. They plan to win ...
Four Corners follows the plight of a town and its people as they try to hold onto their livelihoods and find some joy amid the worst drought in more than 50 years.
Political figures are injected into big-budget films and TV shows to create hilarious pop culture mash-ups, in this series from ABC Insiders' Walkley Award-winning editor Huw Parkinson.
Dozens of homes have been destroyed by Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on the state’s main island, with scientists saying lava is spewing more than 60 metres into the air.
At an abandoned warehouse in Melbourne's west, about 30 drone racers have spent hours custom building their multi-rotor machines and fitting them with onboard cameras. Known as FPV racing - or firs...
Officials wrestled a man to the stage after he fired two blank shots and appeared to lurch at Prince Charles while the Prince was visiting Sydney in 1994. Reporter: Craig McMurtrie. More: http://ab...
Rangers in the West Australian Kimberley say it appears a motion-sensor camera they recently lost in the region was stolen by an eagle. Read more here: http://ab.co/1ao8IKj
In 2014 Angus Young and Brian Johnson spoke to ABC TV's 7.30 program about Malcolm Young being diagnosed with dementia, writing Highway to Hell with Malcolm, and why the band will keep on rocking.
After then-opposition leader Tony Abbott called for Peter Slipper to be removed as Speaker, former Australian PM Julia Gillard hit back at Mr Abbott, labelling him a misogynist in what became one o...
Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific.
The condition known as Hikikomori is one of the biggest social and health problems facing Japan - about 1 million people, mostly men, have locked themselves in their bedrooms and will not come out....
Steve Carell may be one of the world's most in-demand comic actors but describes himself as a bit of a bore, while he also gives insights into improvisation and coming to fame later. See more from ...