| | | | Convicted of killing her four children, Australia's worst female serial killer, Kathleen Folbigg, speaks for the first time exclusively to Australian Story, as her legal team fights for a judicial review of her case. A fresh forensic opinion argues natural causes are a plausible explanation for their deaths. | | | | Dozens of Australian women with the Essure contraceptive device have experienced serious health problems. They are now part of a class action against its maker, international pharmaceutical giant Bayer. | | | | A weekly shop in a remote town can cost almost twice as much as one in a capital city. Find out what your weekly staples could cost you if you ventured out to remote Queensland. | | | | A woman has gone permanently blind in one eye from having dermal filler injected into her face. It comes as surgeons warn of the risks associated with another cosmetic procedure, the Brazilian butt lift. | | | | Genetic information was once reserved for the lab and police work, but thanks to the internet and a new breed of start-up, those official barriers are wearing away. | | | | A grieving family is calling on a local council to be investigated after a staffer took his life following a decade of alleged workplace harassment and bullying. | | | | Johnson's return from five separate knee injuries over six years to play for the Sydney Swans was the feel good story of the AFL season — but it lasted less than five quarters, Richard Hinds writes. | | | | A NASA spacecraft rockets towards the sun on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before. | | | | Authorities say the man was bitten on the chest by the hippo while taking photos on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley. | | | | Former Australian Human Rights commission president Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs says that Australia's gender gap has regressed in the world rankings over the past six or eight years. RMIT ABC Fact Check finds her claim to be fair. | | | | The small coastal community of Tin Can Bay, just two hours north of Brisbane, has a unique bond with a pod of wild dolphins unlike anywhere else in Australia. | | | | The father of 23-year-old tourist Madison Lyden says the loss of his daughter "in such a horrific way is gut-wrenching," after a garbage truck driver is charged with drunk driving. | | | | Hundreds of Australian teenagers are racking up expenses online without their parents' permission, in some cases leaving families on the hook for bills worth thousands of dollars, a new survey finds. | | | | Special tunnels, bridges and fencing are failing to save NSW's dwindling koala population from speeding traffic, with one driver even disobeying traffic directions to flatten an animal, according to Government documents. | | | | Police are searching for the driver of a white Mercedes, believed to have been stolen earlier this month, which hit and killed a 27-year-old Dutch woman cycling on Chapel Street in South Yarra this morning. | | | | The baby boomers and their kids have been lucky in having money to invest when assets were cheap. The future looks tougher if you're just entering the workforce, but Andrew Robertson has some tips. | | | | Schools in Canberra will not have enough psychologists to meet the demand of students with mental health issues by the time hiring finishes in 2020, and psychologists say students are already falling through the gaps. | | | | Investigators are working to find out how an airline employee managed to steal an empty turboprop plane and take off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport before being pursued by military aircraft and fatally crashing nearby. | | | | Tim Watson-Munro has stared into the eyes of terrorists, mass murderers and paedophiles. His job is to determine if a prisoner is legally insane — and he's paid a heavy personal price for his work. | | | | The peaceful, rolling hills of Victoria's South Gippsland are an unusual home for one of the world's biggest skate ramps, but the ramp built by "the coolest dad ever" is drawing skaters from around the world. | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By business reporter Stephen Letts | |  |
By business reporter Andrew Robertson | |  |
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