Community and Society

The Closing the Gap strategy set out to halve the rate of First Nations children in out-of-home care by 2031, but the numbers are still climbing. 

A former financial planner who stole $3.3 million from his clients to fund his sports betting addiction writes to the prime minister from his prison cell, urging him to adopt the recommendations made by a parliamentary inquiry into online gambling harm.

Alcohol-free periods are important for our health, but is a short period of abstinence always the best approach, and how can you avoid immediately returning to bad habits? 

A new photograph of Prince George, taken by the Princess of Wales, has been released to mark his 11th birthday.

Evelyn Froend has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which means she wakes every day in chronic pain. She needs to wear braces on many of her joints just to stop them dislocating, but her condition is not well understood by the medical system.

William says he and other NDIS participants have the same wants and aspirations as anybody else — and a sex work ban would deny a whole section of the community from a "deeply ingrained human need" based just on their circumstances.

Seafood waste is being made into fertiliser and a cheese boiler plant runs on wood waste in the small New South Wales town. Could this be the future of sustainability?

"Misinformation" and community "division" — it sounds like the latest report about the upcoming American presidential election. In fact it's a sleepy suburb in Adelaide's inner-south where a proposal to build a fence has ignited online fury.

The formal start of the UK's parliamentary year happened to fall on Queen Camilla's 77th birthday.

Joey's family had just moved into their new rental home and were waiting for removalists to deliver their furniture, but when they arrived he had disappeared. 

More than 2,000 Palestinian refugees have made their way to Australia since the war in Gaza began in October last year. While relieved to have made it out, many are deeply pained by the fact they are now safe while many of their friends and family are not.

Mental health problems can overlap with trauma, complex trauma and disability, making simple diagnoses and treatment difficult.

The South Australian and Commonwealth governments commit $12 million over three years for Port Augusta and Davenport for youth programs. 

City of Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas reveals a new plan to transform the riverfront at Langley Park at a cost of "billions" of dollars, which the state government immediately labels a "pipe dream".

Uncontacted Indigenous tribe Mashco Piro emerge out of Peruvian Amazon.

Families dealing with food allergies say the price of their weekly shop has more than doubled, with calls for subsidised groceries to help relieve the pressure on people suffering from coeliac disease.

Young people's view of politics and political expression differs from older generations, and they're showing it by abandoning the two major parties.

Campaigning politicians and sitting presidents have been killed and attacked, and while there have been pleas for unity from both sides, there is little to suggest the heated and divisive nature of politics will ease.

As the sun crested the horizon on Boxing Day 20 years ago, these Australians holidaying in Thailand had no idea their lives were about to be engulfed by chaos. This is what they remember about that day.

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to visit Australia and Samoa for the first time since the King ascended to the throne.

Four former conspiracy theorists held beliefs that governed almost every aspect of their lives. Then, for each of them, a powerful trigger made them change their minds. Their stories offer insight into life inside the rabbit hole — and hope for escaping it.

For decades, thousands of people thought they were buying land and built their homes there. But the title holder was always a superannuation company, and now it has brought in the bulldozers. 

A pilots association is claiming aviation services all over Australia have seen a reduction in firefighting resources while Airservices Australia argues it has not reduced rescue firefighting resources.

An anonymous column from a former police officer, an investigation into a death in custody and a visual arts gallery feature in the first edition of a national prison newspaper. 

The battle for the surf has moved from the ocean to the pool where rival companies are spending tens of millions of dollars to create the perfect artificial wave.