Aboriginal housing advocates are calling for urgent improvements to the way remote public housing is maintained in the Northern Territory, after the coroner found the death of a toddler who fell into a backyard septic tank could have been prevented.

White spot disease in prawns has led the NSW government to issue a new, five-year control order which will ban the sale of green prawns caught in affected waters.

The daughters of a man who died in a truck crash at the bottom of the South-Eastern Freeway in 2014 have their heavily redacted victim impact statements read aloud in court, more than 11 years after their father died.

Zone RV plunged into administration last week, leaving customers, suppliers, employees and taxpayers in a $40 million hole. 

The union representing correctional officers has voted to strike indefinitely, while officers who monitor 1,500 people on home detention will stop work for 24 hours

Hannah Wilson says she found it shockingly easy to obtain a medicinal cannabis prescription, despite her history of schizophrenic psychosis.

Financial and domestic abuse survivors say the way Centrelink assesses benefit payments for people in a relationship makes it harder for women to leave dangerous relationships.

Soaring costs and trenchant criticism from some put the brakes on wind and transmission as the sun shines on big solar and batteries.

Soaring costs and trenchant criticism from some put the brakes on wind and transmission as the sun shines on big solar and batteries.

Australia has more than 250 data centres and more in the pipeline, prompting experts to warn against using drinking water to cool servers.

Australia has more than 250 data centres and more in the pipeline, prompting experts to warn against using drinking water to cool servers.

Perpetrators of financial abuse commit fraud by impersonating their partners, making them company directors in secret and putting business and tax debts in their names. The government wants to fix the problem, but will its proposed reforms go far enough?

Perpetrators of financial abuse commit fraud by impersonating their partners, making them company directors in secret and putting business and tax debts in their names. The government wants to fix the problem, but will its proposed reforms go far enough?