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Twenty-year-old seed found in an old research station results in a bumper rockmelon crop in the Red Centre.

In the pockets of millions and on desktops worldwide, female voices are driving a quiet revolution that appears unstoppable. Is this another step towards gender parity, or does it reinforce outdated attitudes about women?

Celebrity chef and former Senior Australian of the Year Maggie Beer is on a mission to improve the quality of food in aged care facilities.

With WA having the worst unemployment rate in the country, jobs were always going to be a key issue ahead of Saturday's election. But young voters in Rockingham face an extra hurdle with youth unemployment in the district at nearly 15 per cent.

Opposition to gas projects in South Australia's south-east is to blame for the lack of investment in the energy source, the South Australian Treasurer says.

A Melbourne teenager is turned away from seeing The Book of Mormon after being sold an invalid ticket through reseller website Viagogo, a problem theatre staff say they face regularly.

After nearly 50 years in the air, retired pilot Pam Jensen reflects on how flying has changed since she first gained her licence.

A notice bearing the Queensland Police Service insignia has been doing the rounds on Facebook for the past week, telling parents that children under the age of 12 cannot walk or ride to school alone. But how true is it?

A wheat gene discovery has shaken the foundations of wheat genome research

A man is in hospital after being shot several times after answering the door of his Gilles Plains home this morning.

A Melbourne teenager is turned away from seeing The Book of Mormon after being sold a fake ticket off reseller website Viagogo, a problem theatre staff say they face regularly.

While 2016 set a new national wheat harvest record, CSIRO warns it is an aberration that masks a more troubling long-term trend.

Two sailors have been brought safely to shore after being forced to abandon their yacht 200 nautical miles north-east of Sydney in seas with 'waves the size of buildings'.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate students starting classes at the University of Sydney this week are being provided with guaranteed and fully subsidised accommodation.

WA Treasurer Mike Nahan defends the Liberals' election costings, saying his party is the only one which can reduce debt, and Labor needs to be held to account.

A mother and daughter duo who are Swans fanatics say they have had to switch teams because their club has not entering the AFLW competition. But they are not giving up hope just yet.

A man who was put up for adoption at the age of just two months by his mother on a Melbourne street in 1947 is reunited with his sister in Perth after being separated for almost 70 years.

An ABC Brisbane listener realises he is driving behind the car at the centre of an Amber Alert and helps police locate the mother and child involved quickly today, police say.

Darwin Private Hospital's high dependency unit (HDU) is not safe and does not comply with current Australian guidelines, the final day of a coronial inquest hears.

A man used a powerful animal tranquilliser to sedate his neighbour Karen Chetcuti-Verbunt before setting her alight and running her over in Whorouly in north-east Victoria last year, a court hears.

On International Women's Day five young women talk to 7.30 about life, work and the challenges women face in the future.

WA Premier Colin Barnett says Federal issues are playing a big part in the West Australian state election campaign.

Questions have been raised about the Army's safety culture during the trial of a former soldier whose truck rolled over in 2012, killing one of his comrades. Reports show that the Army had been warned about poor safety standards up to two decades earlier.

Questions have been raised about the Army's safety culture during the trial of a former soldier whose truck rolled over in 2012, killing one of his comrades. Reports show that the Army had been warned about poor safety standards up to two decades earlier.

A lobby group thinks South Australia is too slow to commit to a planned national compensation scheme for child sexual abuse victims, and plans to urge people to boycott SA-made products.

BHP's mines boss has warned that the WA mining industry could end up like car manufacturing if new taxes are imposed.

A man who allegedly faked his credentials to masquerade as a doctor in New South Wales later worked for one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca.

Police locate a 10-year-old girl taken from Enoggera in Brisbane's west, after issuing an Amber Alert this afternoon.

A guard who restrained Dylan Voller after he was stripped naked when he was 13 and the NT minister who oversaw his time in detention are among the witnesses to give evidence at the next round of royal commission hearings.

Lloyd Rayney rejects claims that at the time of his wife Corryn's death in 2007, the only evidence available to police was that the couple's relationship was "bitter" and "full of recriminations".

Dozens of committed fans of the Mad Max film franchise have converged on far west NSW, setting foot on the location of its desolate second turn The Road Warrior.

There's concern facial recognition technology being used on some Queensland library patrons invades privacy and may break the law. The Toowoomba Regional Council is trialling the biometric software... but Brisbane and some other councils are considering adopting it too. The Toowoomba Council denies it's breaching privacy, but lawyers say it's moving Australia closer to a biometric database.

Josh Marsh, one of Australia's smartest students, will soon leave Tully in far north Queensland for a prestigious MIT research program.

A petrol station owner who alerted police to a British backpacker, allegedly raped and held captive for several weeks, says she now realises the young woman with two black eyes and no money was silently desperate for help.

Former One Nation powerbrokers Ron McLean and Marye Louise Daniels claim Mr McLean was sacked as a candidate in the WA election because he was "too old".

A doctor charged with assaulting women during consultations has been granted bail as more women come forward with allegations.

Labor concedes its proposed debt reduction plan aimed at setting aside 50 per cent of WA's mining royalties will have no effect on the state's spiralling debt in the foreseeable future.

A man used a powerful animal tranquilliser to sedate his neighbour Karen Chetcuti before setting her alight and running her over in Whorouly in north-east Victoria last year, a court hears.

The Greens, Family First and federal Nationals all want a WA Nationals-style Royalties for Regions program in other states, but what is it?

The AFP and Border Force say the seizure of 540 kilograms of methamphetamine, found hidden in protein powder jars, is one of the 10 largest drug hauls in Australia's history.

Women are playing a growing role in agriculture leadership, but what can be done to increase their numbers?

In case you missed it, we launched a new website this week to provide you with easy access to live and on-demand content...

Expect more changes, possibly to flagship programs like 7.30, Lateline and the 7pm news, ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie warns.

How a nursing home treated residents such as Bob Spriggs, whose family complained he was overmedicated and had unexplained bruises, might warrant a Senate inquiry, MP Nick Xenophon believes.

Rural entrepreneurs inducted into the Businesswomen's Hall of Fame celebrate the leadership skills of women in Australia.

The Syrian civil war seems like a world away, but an installation at this year's Adelaide Festival is bringing victims' stories alive, writes ABC reporter Caroline Winter.

The push towards gender parity is a focus of International Women's Day, but in the pockets of millions and on desktops worldwide, other females are driving a quiet revolution that appears unstoppable.

Country Health SA to invest $536,000 in an overhaul of Mount Gambier Hospital's emergency department after a review of its operation.

The number of women hired by Queensland Rail in its recruitment push is more than four times the rate in the current workforce, breaking down traditional barriers.

A geologist has returned from an Antarctic expedition keen to boost women in science.