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Next week, hundreds of Indigenous Australians will meet for a historic constitutional convention at Uluru, but for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, the complex debate over our constitution seems a world away.

The Highlanders put the Western Force to the sword with a six-try second half in a 55-6 Super Rugby win in Perth, condemning the hosts to an eighth loss of the season.

For the second week running, Richmond has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in nail biter. Social media was in an unforgiving mood, with the Tigers rapidly becoming an AFL symbol of tight-game bunglers.

Thousands of fans of medieval history from around the world descend on western Sydney to take a step back in time and experience the dark world of our ancestors.

A growing number of older people are receiving care in their own homes, and those providing care say it may be the cheaper option.

The Northern Australian properties adopting precision farming to manage stock and pasture.

The Gold Coast Titans test their might against the Sea Eagles in Robina, before the Eels face off against the Canberra Raiders. Follow the live commentary and stats in our NRL ScoreCentre.

Lionel Messi is in, but Neymar is out as Argentina and Brazil name seriously strong squads for their friendly match at the MCG in June.

Struggling Glenelg traders are gobsmacked Jetty Road will be dug up for a second time within months to replace ageing water pipes.

Three boys around the age of 12 are arrested in Sydney's inner city after a 10-year-old boy is stabbed in the torso.

Jurors running their own criminal investigations using the internet and social media is increasingly risking Australians' right to a fair trial, two senior legal minds in Canberra warn.

A motocross rider from South Australia's Riverland dies from injuries sustained during a competition near Murray Bridge.

Imagine being able control cattle yards and keep an eye on your farm from space. It sounds like science fiction, but that's exactly what's happening on a handful of cattle stations in Australia's north.

Two men, aged 45 and 47, are charged with murder after a former police officer's body is discovered in a warehouse at Braeside in Melbourne's south-east.

The founders of a US company behind a canned cat food brand removed from sale in Australia, after owners reported their pets becoming sick after consumption, issue a video message to "families in distress" as testing into a possible link continues.

Cruise ship passengers are clogging up mainland medical waiting rooms and straining local health services as they try to avoid expensive on-board doctors, Kimberley GPs say.

A Queensland man with one of every Summer Olympic Games torch since the 1936 competition in Berlin is putting his collection on display to the public on the Gold Coast.

After arriving in the Yorke Peninsula more than a century ago, snails are causing havoc for South Australian farmers and an expert warns this year could see a bumper snail season due to the recent wet and mild summer.

The derogatory term "malingerer" to denounce soldiers with mental illness is still being used in the Australian Army, former soldiers say.

It took 25 dogs, a former world champion tandem surfer and an oversize stand up paddle board to break a rather peculiar world record, although it has not been officially recognised by world record keepers.

Organisers of the Woodford Folk Festival say its local infrastructure cannot continue to cope with its growing crowds, so have embarked on controls to reach sustainability.

From colour, texture and taste to packet size and labelling, ginger nut biscuits differ across the country.

Colour Doesn't Matter was painted by a Darwin artist as a response to the racial abuse of her friend's Indigenous son, and she says a chance meeting with Adam Goodes led to her Archibald entry.

A program involving Australian doctors to find and treat children in East Timor with rheumatic heart disease is documenting the condition for the first time and potentially reducing the rates of heart failure, researchers say.

The picture book 'Tjulpu And Walpa' is being launched as part of the NT Writers' Festival in Alice Spring by a group of first-time authors hoping the "trauma story" will have an impact on kids.

Researchers embark on a challenging mission to rescue fur seals entangled in rubbish in a colony on Phillip Island but they fear the problem is worsening.

Lindsay Miles tried to live without plastic five years ago on a whim. Now she has made low-waste living a full-time pursuit.

Canberra scientists are pioneering new research into self-driving car technology. They're looking at how humans behave behind the wheel of vehicles set to auto-pilot. Specifically, how quickly they can retake control of their car in an emergency. The ACT government has poured more than a million dollars into the world-first study.