If politicians and headlines are to be believed, "ordinary" Australians are doing it tough. They're ignored. They're losing out. Now we can add one more problem to the list: their numbers are shrinking to "astonishing" lows.
Crowds cheer as Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, braves pouring rain to make his 22,219th and final solo public engagement, meeting Royal Marines at Buckingham Palace.
US President Donald Trump grudgingly signs into law new sanctions against Russia, criticising the legislation as having "clearly unconstitutional" elements.
Please explain? The Electoral Commission of Queensland quizzes One Nation over multiple breaches of electoral laws and is told the weather, software and missing passwords are to blame.
Welfare experts are drawing attention to rising levels of financial abuse among couples in the wake of a national survey showing Australians are suffering from increasing levels of financial stress.
Trapdoor spiders are reluctant travellers, but millions of years ago one species appears to have made an epic journey from Africa across the vast Indian Ocean to call Australia home.
A charity is calling for the Australian Government to protect children and force all online porn users to prove they are adults by putting in their credit card details.
Top scientists recommend an overhaul of the nation's climate research system after a review finds a critical lack of staff in key areas like climate modelling.
Australia's peak medical body has slammed the Federal Government's drug policy, arguing its focus on methamphetamine is misplaced and alcohol abuse is a far more pressing issue.
Boarding kennel and animal rescue home owner Sue Lopicich is attacked and mauled to death by a bull mastiff, her body found by her daughter when she failed to turn up for work at a childcare centre.
There are enough supporters of same-sex marriage in Parliament to change the law if Coalition MPs vote according to their conscience. But changing the law is more than a numbers game and there is no sign the Coalition partyroom will agree to a conscience vote.
Television personality-turned-euthanasia advocate Andrew Denton is forced to pull out of the campaign to legalise assisted dying in Victoria because he has been diagnosed with advanced heart disease.
Rodrigo Duterte slams North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a "fool" and a "son of a bitch" days ahead of an international meeting to address Pyongyang's long-range missile tests.
A suicide bomber attacks a NATO-led convoy of international troops near an airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least two American soldiers.
Caitlin Martin is among a growing number of young people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and is finding her artistic practice central to how she copes with the disease.
Two police officers are cleared of allegations of police brutality against Aboriginal man Clifton Penny by an internal investigation, but his family say no-one has told them of the outcome.
The managing director of one of Australia's biggest nursing home chains is accused of bullying residents' relatives, and he offered money after one family complained about the abuse and death of their loved one.
It's no surprise that students are sexually harassed or assaulted on public transport, but we have the tools to start fixing the problem, writes Nicole Kalms.
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