Sydney news

A team of researchers in Melbourne and Perth are moving towards clinical trials of a device which uses protein created by silkworms to heal cells in the eardrum.

Victorian police release the image of a T-shirt with the logo of Korean band Big Bang emblazoned on the front in the hope it can help identify the body of a man found inside a wheelie bin in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.

An Australian slang class is helping newcomers to Kalgoorlie understand local phrases and feel more at home.

Artisans in Canberra are recycling unwanted denim jeans into paper and creating cards, notebook covers and seed tiles.

NASA specifies the one question not to ask when Australian Air League cadets get their chance for a hook-up with the International Space Station this week.

Young people might seem like they are glued to their phones but police say behind the wheel P-platers resist using them because they do not want to accumulate demerit points.

We're answering two Curious Canberra questions today that touch on snowfall and spaceships.

The family of Tori Johnson call on the NSW Police Commissioner to review the current positions of the two most senior commanders in charge at the end of the Lindt Cafe siege.

Conflict of interest concerns are raised about two board members of federal government bodies involved in the consideration of a billion-dollar loan to Indian mining giant Adani.

A fisherman finds himself bleeding and on the bottom of his boat right near a great white shark after the animal launches out of the water and into his vessel on New South Wales' north coast.

Perth Zoo is placed in lockdown as two orangutans briefly escape their enclosure, alarming onlookers and prompting an investigation.

The Raiders hold off a resurgent Sydney Roosters outfit to post a 24-16 win at Canberra Stadium on Sunday evening.

A Hans Heysen watercolour that was discovered at a deceased estate in Germany earlier this year sells for a record-breaking $110,000 at an auction in Adelaide, with the winning bidder promising to put the masterpiece on display in his family restaurant.

Landlords responsible for dozens of empty shop fronts in the heart of St Kilda must take a financial hit and slash high rents to capitalise on the closure of the notorious Gatwick rooming house, the Fitzroy Street Business Association says.

The family of long-time advocate for child sex abuse victims, Anthony Foster, accepts an offer from the Victorian Government for a state funeral.

State Health Minister Michael Ferguson concedes the health service is only now consulting with hospital staff about new beds announced in last week's state budget.

The President of the Australian Medical Association in WA says he will continue to push the debate over decriminalisation of drugs and how drug users are treated.

The Tasmanian Health Minister's office is accused of concealing from the public the true extent of the crisis in Royal Hobart Hospital's emergency department.

Illness forced Adelaide man Mark Woods to turn to a boarding house for shelter and he agrees with disturbing new findings about the failings of some of the accommodation on offer.

More than 100 extra homes for women and children escaping family violence will be built across Victoria as part of a $133.2 million State Government package.

After a pregnancy lasting 22 months, the birth of a new Asian elephant at Sydney's Taronga Zoo was remarkably swift.

A woman in a wheelchair is left stranded in a Brisbane railyard after Queensland Rail employees forget to help her disembark from a train, with Deputy Premier Jackie Trad since apologising to the woman.

Volunteers slowly rebuild the outback ghost town of Farina, and this winter's project is bringing an important old homestead back to life.

After a week in their new home on Tasmania's north-east coast, six Maria Island devils give researchers hope for success.

"Truth telling" about Indigenous suffering and displacement through colonisation must be a key part of treaty negotiations, a prominent Western Australian Aboriginal commentator says.

The official campaign to find William Tyrrell distances itself from convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, after she carries a bag with a photo of the missing boy through the media scrum in Bali.

A world-first clinical trial is tackling runny ear in a bid to prevent lifelong developmental damage to Indigenous kids in the NT.

Kid are becoming keen players of an online app that aims to make science fun while adding to a national database of Australian species, one of a rising number of online projects and websites that are making science more accessible.

As the 100th anniversary of John F Kennedy's birth approaches, a former South Australian politician sheds light on a thank-you note written to an Australian diplomat by Jackie Kennedy in 1962.

The Kangaroo Island Council and SA Power Networks [SAPN] are at loggerheads over the replacement of the island's ageing power infrastructure.

Schapelle Corby arrives home in Australia, touching down in Brisbane just after 5:00am today, more than 12 years after she was convicted of taking marijuana into Bali.

Rock climbing will make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, and since the announcement late last year, the number of climbers in Australia has surged.

Growing casualisation, underemployment, automation and multiple careers mean Gen Y could miss out completely on long service leave.