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A project by museums around the world returns historic images to Indigenous communities around Australia.

A photo from the Berndt Museum, UWA, as part of the Returning Photos Project

A newly discovered insect found on the Cape York Peninsula might look tiny and delicate, but it is causing a big buzz in the bug world.

A central Queensland project is giving young children and seniors the chance to come together to play, learn and make friendsand a similar program in the USA shows it can benefit both ends of the age spectrum.

Mining company Glencore's bold strategy to take about a third of its zinc off the market in 2015 is credited for the mineral hitting a 10-year high.

Questions have been raised about possible secret approaches to foreign agencies for financial support for Adani's controversial Carmichael coal mine.

A Victorian town has turned itself around after the closure of its dairy factory four years ago.

After losing everything in the one-in-100-year flood in 2013, residents in Queensland's Wide Bay region face another heartbreaking clean-up.

New legislation passed in State Parliament will stop retirement village operators from gouging elderly Queenslanders and will enforce simplified contracts, Housing Minister Mick de Brenni says.

The parents of 19-year-old Esperance teenager Alexandra Henderson, who died after being struck by a bull, hope their daughter's death doesn't discourage other young people from working in agriculture.

There is a "potent set up" for severe "super-cell" storms to hit south-east Queensland today, possibly bringing very large hail and damaging winds, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

Three men are arrested at a home in Melbourne's bayside suburbs after a man dies following reports of an assault.

Hundreds of vulnerable Victorians are falling through the cracks after the State Government pulls back on disability funding.

One hundred years since the first passenger train travelled across Australia, historians, train buffs and outback leaders gather to celebrate.

Data details more than 1,000 serious violent incidents at NSW schools last year, after mobile-phone vision this week emerged of an alleged one-punch assault at Wagga Wagga High School.

Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog is examining police handling of a traffic accident involving the wife of Premier Daniel Andrews.

Former Indonesia president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono criticises Donald Trump's lack of Asian policy and says Indonesian and Australian cooperation is key to ensuring peace in the region.

As the first pictures emerge of the wreckage of a light aircraft which crashed in dense bushland near Albany, the identity of the sole occupanta 40-year-old waterbombing pilot in WA for the bushfire seasonis revealed.

A Brisbane family watched in amazement as a giant python spent half an hour with its jaws clamped around a possum's snout as it hoisted the animal into a treetop.

The charge against an 18-year-old woman accused of inflicting a catastrophic brain injury on her baby daughter at the family's home in WA's South West is upgraded to murder.

Property buyers are warned to verify trust account information before transferring money, after two South Australian conveyancing clients were scammed out of nearly $1 million.

Have your say on what we should investigate next as part of our Curious Darwin story series that puts your questions front and centre.

No one was more surprised at Jemma Green's appointment to the role of Deputy Lord Mayor than Jemma Green herself. So who is the woman taking over as our city's leader?

A pitbull-type dog that killed Canberra woman Tania Klemke in her home overnight and injured a man before turning on police had attacked a person before, the ACT Government confirms.

A woman accused of murdering Aaron Pajich tells a WA court she ate a steak dinner, smoked cannabis and watched Game of Thrones, just hours afterunbeknown to herthe teenager was fatally stabbed in her Orelia home.

Would you pay $80,000 for a Viking-like boat you can't yet sail? One Sydney lawyer has done just that and plans to be sailing his new purchase on Sydney Harbour.

The Mike Moroney-trained imported horse Vengeur Masque beats Gallic Chieftain to win the Geelong Cup.

The first pictures emerge of a light aircraft which crashed in dense bushland, claiming the life of the pilota waterbomber based in WA for the bushfire season.

Fashion enthusiasts discover horse racing is not the only lucrative hobby at the Geelong Cup, with more than $25,000 in prizes going to a few talented winners.

The CFS is preparing for a busy bushfire season, but is already battling a resourcing problemthe loss of several of its trucks to rust in the Adelaide Hills and other suburban areas.

Domenic Perre, who was once charged over the fatal 1994 NCA bombing, intends to plead not guilty to five drug and firearms charges, his lawyer tells an Adelaide court.

Despite the massive publicity of breast cancer awareness campaigns, there's one group of women often overlookedthose with advanced or metastatic breast cancer, who are not expected to survive.

A NSW Supreme Court jury in Lismore finds Michael Phillip Martin guilty of the murder of his father.

Queensland farmers are lamenting the loss of H Class handguns in the war against wild dogs.

It's common for solar panels to be fitted to the northern side of a roof, but a solar consultant suggests that might not be best.

Food waste is costing the average Australian household more than $1,000 a year, according to a new report.

Rabobank releases its second report into food waste in Australia

What if the negative impressions formed on our Year 6 visit to Parliament were wrong? Dominic Knight reviews Lonely Planet's review of Canberra, its third-best city in the world.

More than 13 years after the death of 11-month-old Dylan Robert James Lindsay, police reveal the full extent of his injuries in the hope of prompting people with information to come forward.

A senior member of the Namatjira family has died less than a week after a deal ended a protracted copyright dispute over the estate of renowned painter Albert Namatjira.

A new school in Port Macquarie to open next year will be one of only a handful of schools in Australia based on an outdoor learning model.

Tyrone Pahh thought he had a flat tyre on his bike until he turned the light on and saw a king brown snake had attacked it instead of him after being disturbed.

Sydney Festival director Wesley Enoch says he has "second-album jitters" as he launches the program for next January's event, after a hit festival last summer.

The police sought the warrant in relation to a complaint by Queensland's Cabinet Secretary, who says Cabinet documents may have been "improperly accessed" and leaked to investigative journalists.

Polling by a coalition of environment groups shows Labor has a small lead ahead of Greens in the Northcote by-election, with nearly 60 per cent likely to back a candidate who supports creation of a new national park.

A CSIRO crew investigating the impact of trawl fishing discovers strange deep sea creatures off north-west WA.

The ABC's Patrick Galloway dons the helmet and pads, fronting up to Australia's pace spearhead Mitchell Starc in the SCG nets, and lives to tell the tale.

Moonee Valley is sold out and the hype is building ahead of this weekend's Cox Plate as Winx chases Kingston Town and a place in racing history.

The family of the other pilot killed in a light aircraft crash in Darwin on Monday speaks about their agony of losing their eldest son.

Thousands of homes are without power as firefighters battle a blaze at an electrical substation near the West End brewery at Thebarton in Adelaide's west.