Jacqueline Taylor tells an inquest she did not perform a hands-on assessment of Aishwarya Aswath when she was brought into Perth Children's Hospital, and the seven-year-old's care may have been different with more resources.

The Northern Territory Coroner has described the silence from Finke Desert Race committee members as "extraordinary" at a coronial inquest into the death of a spectator.

A million-dollar study hopes to lead to a diagnostic for brain diseases including Alzheimer's and CTE, but researchers say it's now at an impasse due to a lack of support from the AFL. 

There are almost five times as many short-stay properties available in this WA tourist hotspot as there are long-term rentals, but the owners say a desperate request from local government is taking the focus off the real source of the proble...

Close friends of an elderly couple who died at a retirement village in Adelaide's eastern suburbs, in a suspected murder-suicide, tell the ABC the husband and wife were devoted to each other, as assisted dying laws come back into the spotlig...

Taiwan will begin deploying drone defence systems on its offshore islands after footage emerged of Taiwanese soldiers throwing stones at a Chinese drone that buzzed a guard post.

We interviewed 50 midlife women about alcohol and all of them told us drinking alcohol was perceived to reduce loneliness and isolation. They didn't just drink alcohol, they had a "relationship" with alcohol that was less discretionary trea...

Little is known about how the menstrual cycle affects athletes' performance. A new study launched at the Australian Institute of Sport is hoping to shed more light on the subject.

Former federal defence minister and WA governor, Kim Beazley, is urging Australia to focus on strengthening its relationship with India to compete with the rise of China.

A Qantas engineer made an error that released hundreds of oxygen masks but failed to accurately document the problem. As engineers strike over pay, profit results are released and a jet base insider reveals widespread stress among staff, wha...

The potential La Niña is getting a lot of airtime heading into spring but the humble negative IOD is already in full swing.

A separate police investigation is underway to uncover how the infant sustained those injuries before arriving at the hospital.

Vicky started to take dietary supplements to boost her immune system. She was unknowingly poisoning herself. 

It seems that just like pets, feral cats — along with a host of native species — are attracted by feather boas and this finding might help scientists control the destructive pests.

Construction to replace sections of an 80-year-old pipeline in South Australia will be delayed until next year to ensure the habitat of a group of threatened birds is protected. 

Police believe Andrew Walsh's death is related to the suspected murder of 35-year-old Indooroopilly man Lachlan Griffiths.

A Northern Territory police officer is expected to be charged with several offences, while another has been bailed after being charged with two counts of aggravated assault.

The British Embassy says it is "concerned by the arrest of a British woman in Myanmar", while it is believed the couple are being sent to Insein prison, the notorious jail on the outskirts of the commercial capital of Yangon where many polit...

Vanessa Bryant says she lives in fear that the photos of her husband Kobe and daughter Gianna's bodies, taken by first responders, will resurface and that her surviving children will see them.

NSW bees are still banned from going into several states, but that hasn't stopped hundreds of thousands of them from being sent to almond plantations in southern NSW at a time when the industry desperately needs them.

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell say the convicted sex trafficker's brother promised a $US1 million retainer to have them defend her against charges she helped Jeffrey Epstein abuse girls, but paid just $143,500.

Arguments in the appeal are likely be heard sometime next year and the court can uphold the conviction or order a new trial.

A traditional owner says a decision not to publicly release an independent report into the burial is insulting to native title holders. 

A teenage boy is sentenced to at least two months in youth detention for raping a fellow student from a Blue Mountains high school during a house party in 2019.

The government establishes a promised robodebt royal commission to investigate the former government's illegal debt collection scheme that wrongly attempted to claim almost $2 billion from Centrelink recipients.