Explainers

With more than 30 locations in Sydney potentially set to be rezoned for higher density housing, developers are reportedly approaching residents and offering to buy their homes.

Almost 8,000 trainee doctors in South Korea have walked off the job in protest against the government's recent plan to recruit more students to medical schools. Here's why they're happening and whether there's support for them.

Huge piles of tumbleweeds are surrounding houses, frustrating farmers and heightening fire risk in rural areas. But academics say very little can be done to wipe them out.

Cecilia Gentili's family deny deceiving New York's St Patrick's Cathedral, after her funeral there was deemed a "scandal" by the pastor.

South Australia's Parole Board will meet to consider an application by "bodies-in-the-barrels" accomplice Mark Ray Haydon for release into the community. It’s the culmination of an application which has been under consideration since 2021.

Canberra drivers caught illegally using their mobile phone by detection cameras face hefty fines and demerit points from today. 

Dozens of people have been killed in a clash between tribes in Papua New Guinea's Highlands that's been described as an "ambush".

South Australia's defence sector, particularly shipbuilding, has been repeatedly spruiked as an economic boon and a pathway to long term prosperity, particularly in the wake of the demise of the automotive industry — but will what was promised actually be delivered?

While there's no substitute for a qualified teacher, we've asked experts for their best tips for parents who want to help teach their kids to read at home. 

Prince Harry and Meghan launch new personal website, dropping the "royal" tag but not their titles.

Are you better off getting cover or relying entirely on the public system? Answering that is complicated but could be worth your time.

Secret camera footage appearing to show South Korea's first lady accepting an expensive Dior handbag threatens to impact her corruption-busting husband's election campaign. And it's not even Kim Keon Hee's first scandal. 

Kanye West's new collaborative album VULTURES 1 arrived on Saturday. And it's already stirring up drama.

Clinicians, patient organisations and medical researchers are updating advice around sun exposure to explicitly recognise different skin types.

Taylor Swift fans have reported having their Ticketek accounts hacked and concert tickets stolen right underneath their noses, just days before the pop star begins her Melbourne shows.

Labor and the Greens have dug their trenches in preparation for what looms as another lengthy battle in their housing war — this time over a scheme that would see the government co-purchase houses with low-income households.

Based on the ongoing British Post Office scandal, the four-part series has seen the downfall of multiple high-profile people responsible for the controversy.

From Wednesday, people visiting Bali will be required to pay a tourist tax. However, the fee is relatively small and there are a few different ways you can pay.

The stabbing death of an Ipswich grandmother has reignited debate about youth justice in Queensland — in particular, opening the doors of Childrens Court matters to journalists.

It's been billed as Australia's answer to the Golden Globes — or even the Oscars, depending on who you ask — and the stars are gathering for the ceremony on the Gold Coast.

More than 85 per cent of Australians live within 50 kilometres of the ocean, but the variation in weather across any slice of this narrow coastal band is substantial.

As experts push to strengthen Australia's privacy laws, many car makers are gathering data and potentially selling it to third parties.

For decades, we've known sunscreen dramatically lowers a person's risk of developing skin cancer, with some of the first evidence coming from (aptly) the Sunshine State. This is how it works.

The guilty conviction of the Michigan school shooter's mother sets a "contentious" precedent for holding parents accountable for their child's wrongdoings, a US legal expert says.

Carano was fired from the Star Wars spin-off series in 2021 for comments she made on social media that compared the Holocaust to US politics.