The Prime Minister has defended the Census, saying the security of peoples' data is "absolute". Independent senator Nick Xenophon has called for the national survey to be delayed over privacy concerns
A 62-year-old woman who gave birth after undergoing IVF has been labelled selfish by the president of the Australian Medical Association. Dr Michael Gannon said there were "greater priorities in women's health"
Donald Trump told the mother of a crying child to "get the baby out of here" while speaking at a campaign rally. Unsurprisingly, people on social media have had a field day with the comments
The early results from NAPLAN are out, and they show no great improvement in Australian students. But how would you go on the test? Here's 10 sample questions to test your knowledge.
Here's what's coming up tonight:
5:30pm AEST: Judith Whelan, Osman Faruqi and Jim Molan will appear on The Drum on ABC 1
7:30pm AEST: Chief statistician at the Australian Bureau of Statistics David Kalisich will be interviewed on 7.30
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the security of personal details collected in the Census "is a given", as Nick Xenophon urges the Government to delay the compulsory survey.
A cancer patient from one of Sydney's hospitals says she was told by a senior hospital bureaucrat not to "run to the media" to express her fears over her treatment.
Amnesty and Human Rights Watch researchers enter the Nauru immigration detention centre incognito and say Australia is explicitly ignoring the inhumane treatment of refugees as a means of deterring others.
Australian consumers, especially the elderly, children and pregnant women, are urged to avoid eating rockmelon as the food standards authority investigates 80 salmonella cases linked to the fruit.
Jaws drop as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tells the mother of a crying child to leave a campaign rally, after earlier joking about the noise and telling her "don't worry".
There are warnings that a sinkhole which opened up in a couple's backyard west of Brisbane could become much bigger, as authorities prepare to test water swirling in the metres-wide pit to find out where it comes from.
For the members of the first Olympic Refugee Team, including Syrian Yusra Mardini, who swam for her life from Turkey to Greece, simply competing in Rio is the greatest accomplishment of all.
A former bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle denies ever being told allegations that one of his priests, Peter Rushton, had sexually abused children.
It only takes a few days in Western Australia to see evidence of its severe recession everywhere you look, as ABC economics expert Stephen Long discovered when he travelled there recently.
Serial code-hopper Jarryd Hayne speaks of his deep disappointment, claiming he didn't receive an offer from the Parramatta Eels upon the announcement he has signed for the Gold Coast Titans.
Farmers are embracing the use of drones and robots to free up resources, and are excited by the latest prototype, which can help monitor and herd livestock and check on crops.
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