Emilia Clarke says 'it's remarkable' that she's able to speak after having two brain aneurysms
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Having sustainability front of mind may be part of the new normal many Australians are living following the onset of the pandemic, research shows.The lockdowns that confined millions of people to their homes and close communities caused many to make more considered day-to-day choices, the University of Queensland research suggests.
Aldi shoppers have been warned about a new scam currently circulating on Facebook. Here's what you need to know.
A single moment of inattention meant a much loved Victorian man lost his life and his newborn daughter lost the chance to know her father.Another much loved man, a father with a daughter the same age, will spend the rest of his life in grief and remorse knowing he caused that.
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has testified in a prison courtroom in the capital for the first time in her official secrets case, a legal official said.Suu Kyi, who has been detained since the military ousted her government last year, is being tried in Naypyitaw with Australian economist Sean Turnell and three former Cabinet members on the same charge, which is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
An urgent warning has been issued to Aussie parents trying to heat their homes after an incident that could have had a tragic outcome. Find out what happened here.
The woman stole the rifle from the back of the car before shooting at officers and a civilian.
Jacinda Ardern has been accused of a cover-up by suspended Labour MP Gaurav Sharma in an explosive interview likely to cause more pain for the first-term parliamentarian.Dr Sharma now faces party expulsion next week, with the prime minister's office confirming the caucus would re-visit his partyroom membership at its next meeting.
The Western Australian government admits it failed to meaningfully implement school attendance plans recommended following child suicides in the state's north.Education Minister Sue Ellery has apologised after an inquiry found serious deficiencies in the planning, implementation and oversight of the plans for students in Halls Creek who were identified as being at severe attendance risk.
Infrastructure and technology improvements and more driver training and education will be considered in a meeting of key stakeholders to improve safety on Adelaide's South Eastern Freeway.Next week's meeting comes after a shocking incident last month when an out-of-control truck smashed into multiple cars at an intersection at the base of the roadway, injuring nine people.
UnsplashAs the cut-off for the government’s consultation on a National Cultural Policy (NCP) approaches, thousands in the sector are putting the finishing touches to their three-page submissions. These are directed around “five pillars” drawn from Creative Australia, the national cultural policy announced in the last months of the Gillard regime, but ignored by the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments thereafter. Coalition arts ministers showed little interest in cultural policy. Over the l
Australia's blistering heatwaves kill many more people than any other natural hazard, and more can be done to prepare for future events, new research says.Hospital emergency and ambulance demand, as well as mortality, increases significantly during heatwaves, research from James Cook University shows.
Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 37 people and wounded 161 others, the civil protection department of the North African country said Thursday.Most of the victims were reported in the wilaya, or region, of El Tarf, near the northern Algeria-Tunisian border, where 34 people were found dead.
Travelling 30km inland, this seal isn't finished just yet. Find out the latest regarding its wild ride.
A Melburnian accused of creating intrusive spyware as a 15-year-old and then selling it to domestic violence perpetrators and other criminals has faced court.Police allege the now 24-year-old man created the remote access trojan (RAT) named Imminent Monitor which let perpetrators control victims' computers, steal personal information, and turn on their webcams and microphones.
Nam Anh / UnsplashIf you think about “unravelling the mysteries of the universe”, you probably think of physics: astronomers peering through telescopes at distant galaxies, or experimenters smashing particles to smithereens at the Large Hadron Collider. When biologists try to unravel deep mysteries of life, we too tend to reach for physics. But our new research, published in Science, shows physics may not always have the answers to questions of biology. For centuries scientists have asked why, k
Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre has a culture of brutality towards children, allowed alleged sexual abusers to continue working and has breached United Nations torture conventions, an inquiry has been told.A former detainee, known as Warren, said he was raped at least 20 times by one guard and sexually assaulted more than 50 times by other staff who withheld his ADHD medication until they abused him.
New research is raising the alarm about the growing frequency and severity of deadly heatwaves.
A man managed to narrowly avoid being hit by a piece of plane falling from the sky while on his lunch break. Find out what happened.
Russia says there is a risk of a man-made disaster at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and has accused Kyiv and the West of planning "provocation" there during a visit to Ukraine by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.A senior Ukrainian official dismissed what he depicted as a cynical assertion by Moscow, and said the simplest solution to the situation would be for Russian forces to withdraw from the plant, remove any munitions stored there and demine it.
A man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie in western New York has pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges during an arraignment hearing and held without bail.Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the The Satanic Verses author was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat near Lake Erie.
