Are powerful vested interests behind Liberal MP Richard Colbeck's delay in adopting stronger health warnings for pregnant women. “HEALTH WARNING: Alcohol can cause lifelong harm to your baby.”

Overwhelming on a human scale, the Indigenous remains held at the South Australian Museum speak to a terrible stain on Adelaide’s past. But justice is coming

Submerged in the waters off Western Australia lies an ancient site home to Aboriginal people thousands of years ago, when sea levels were lower than they are today.

Over-policing traps Aboriginal Australians in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to get a handle on the problem. In Victoria, despite a commitment to begin mandatory recording of ethnic appearance descriptors in police interactions with the public, the force has refused to make the data public.

Facebook has rejected a proposal to share advertising revenue with news organisations, saying there would “not be significant” impacts on its business if it stopped sharing news altogether. On Monday, the social media giant issued its response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which has been tasked with creating a mandatory code of conduct aimed at levelling the playing field.

The coronavirus-related drop in greenhouse gas emissions during the March quarter will not be enough to set the nation on a trajectory it needs to meet Paris reductions commitments. During the year to the end of March, emissions fell by around 1.2 percent while emissions during the March quarter were about 3 per cent less than those of the previous quarter.

Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.

When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by massive animals including goannas six metres long and kangaroos twice as tall as a human. We have studied fossil bones of these animals for the past decade. Our findings, published today in Nature Communications, shed new light on the mystery of what drove these ancient megafauna to extinction.

We saved 53 Endangered Sydney Whites Seahorses by relocating them to a new home! Their home near Manly Beach, Sydney was being demolished and as poor swimmers they would've perished. Luckily we got there first! Hope you enjoy the short heartwarming video

More than 100 people in Melbourne and Brisbane have signed up to be involved in the first human trials of a vaccine for COVID-19. Clinical research organisation Nucleus Network will be in charge of the early stages of testing the vaccine NVX-CoV2373, before the trial expands to Brisbane within a week.

Empty offices and restaurants in the city of Sydney are driving hungry rats into homes and suburbs, and the loosening of restrictions could create “a new rat plague”, according to a leading rat-catcher. As city centres have closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, suburban rat infestations have spiked, according to Geoff Milton, a Sydney rat-catcher with 35 years’ experience.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has apologised for blowing up 46,000-year-old Aboriginal caves in Western Australia dating back to the last Ice Age. The Juukan Gorge caves, in the Pilbara region, were destroyed last Sunday as Rio Tinto expanded an iron ore project agreed with the authorities. Many prehistoric artefacts have been found at the remote heritage site. "We are sorry for the distress we have caused," said Chris Salisbury, the firm's iron ore chief executive.

A resident at a unit complex where an Aboriginal baby girl died on Sunday says he heard the child's mother asking police not to separate them when she was arrested.

The island state was once home to the flightless bird but it was almost extinct within 25 years of European settlement.

The continent records its highest national average temperature, worsening the bushfire threat.

"The fires have burned so hot and so fast that there has been significant mortality of animals in the trees, but there is such a big area now that is still on fire and still burning that we will probably never find the bodies."

Australia is caught in a climate spiral. For the past few decades, the arid and affluent country of 25 million has padded out its economy—otherwise dominated by sandy beaches and a bustling service sector—by selling coal to the world. As the East Asian economies have grown, Australia has been all too happy to keep their lights on. Exporting food, fiber, and minerals to Asia has helped Australia achieve three decades of nearly relentless growth: Oz has not had a technical recession, defined as two successive quarters of economic contraction, since July 1991.

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Animals wreak havoc in drought-afflicted areas, causing damage to infrastructure