The sun was still low on the horizon when 19-year-old Piper James walked toward the Pacific Ocean for a morning swim on an ...

Experts estimate 11,000 hectares of core habitat for the critically endangered parrot has been lost to a recent fire.

Human-shark encounters in Australia are rising - but experts are keen to point out it isn't the animals' fault.

A dramatic slump in London house prices has led experts to warn a similar scenario could play out in Australia, with one ...

Despite an injection of more than $260 million in Australian aid, the situation for women in Afghanistan remains 'bleak'.

Australia’s human population has, as we all know, increased enormously, which in turn has led to an increase in the number of ...

Almost half a century after his parents fled, Lap Phan finds more than he expected when he moves his family back to the ...

A young Canadian backpacker who was found dead on a beach in Australia earlier this week was likely not killed by a pack of ...

As One Nation and Pauline Hanson threaten to overtake the fractured Coalition as the nation’s leading conservative force, we test if the party’s policies make practical and economic sense.

“Koalas are in steep decline across much of eastern Australia, but in south Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges, the opposite problem is happening: a booming koala population,” says ecologist Frédérik ...

Police are urging people in a small Australian town to stay indoors as they look for the man suspected of killing three ...

For Petkovic, talking about death – and doing so early – is central to being prepared. Even a simple conversation with a ...