A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin. Not every resident would be thrilled, but ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by the ingenuity.

The north-east Arnhem Land school ignored a government order to teach only in English for the first four hours of each day. Now, educators say the school's "both ways" approach using Indigenous language language and English in the classroom is yielding results.

Public hearings into new national laws that could allow employers to snoop on the private lives of their employees will be held today. The Electrical...

Australia has been ranked last for climate action out of nearly 200 countries in a report assessing progress towards global sustainable development goals. The Sustainable Development Report 2021, first reported by Renew Economy, scored Australia last out of 193 United Nations member countries for action taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

An exceptionally rare and critically endangered fungus, known as the tea-tree fingers, is rapidly losing its grip on the Australian mainland.

he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.

Suzie watched her son's development deteriorate for years. Doctors said it was all part of the process, but they were wrong.

Australia’s top economists overwhelmingly back government measures to speed the transition to electric cars in order to meet emission reduction targets. An exclusive poll of 62 of Australia’s preeminent economists – selected by their peers – finds 51 back measures to boost the takeup of electric cars including subsidising public charging stations, subsidising the purchase of all-electric vehicles, and setting a date to ban the import of traditionally powered cars.

The first wattles of the season are about to burst into fluffy pom-poms of resplendent gold and pale cream. But in the early 2000s, these plants were in the centre of one of the world's biggest botanical controversies.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will remain in the realms of satire, after an attempt to secure formal recognition as an incorporated entity was knocked by a South Australian legal authority on the grounds that the purported religion is nothing more than a "hoax".

We have found 140 quarry sites, where rock was excavated to make seed grinding stones, in the Channel Country of Central Australia. It's part of a major project testing Bruce Pascoe's hypothesis.

More than 250 alleged criminal figures were charged in Australia after an international sting by the AFP and FBI involving an encrypted app. But not one arrest was made on American soil.

Australia's "very weak" privacy protections are why the nation was such a key player in a major international crackdown on organised crime, legal and counter-terrorism experts say.

Paleontologists classified a new species of sauropod that now ranks as Australia's largest dinosaur. The species was known as Australotitan cooperensis.

Want to target bigger messaging services, 'criminal marketplaces'.

More than 100 members of Australia's mafia and bikie underworld have been arrested in the nation's biggest-ever crime sting, police say.

CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall has explained why the agency sensationally dumped the team behind the seL4 microkernel, saying he did not believe it was feasible to spin out the research in Australia and that it didn’t fit with the agency’s new focus on AI. The Trustworthy Systems team, which developed the extremely hard-to-hack microkernel in use around the world and who are regarded as world-leading in the field, sits within CSIRO’s digital arm Data61 but was dropped by the agency last month. They quickly received interest from a number of potential overseas buyers, before receiving a funding lifeline from the University of...

Shared ownership means Australian industries are far more concentrated than traditional metrics suggest.

Government continues to give more powers to law enforcement.

Internet Australia welcomes the release of the first in-depth economic study into the likely detrimental impact of TOLA (Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018,