The day Australia's first traffic light was installed
There were some teething problems on the day Australia's first automatic traffic control signal was switched on.
There were some teething problems on the day Australia's first automatic traffic control signal was switched on.
A man who took a selfie with Piggie the echidna after she was abducted from a Gold Coast wildlife sanctuary didn't mishandle her, his barrister says.
Upcoming book to claim Newman faltered in appointing top judge.
ASX-listed Australian Vintage has spent 15 months working on a new brand for Generation Y in a push to expand the amount of wine being consumed by the 18 to 34 age group.
Canberrans who braved the early cold were rewarded with a stunning sunrise ahead of a bumper weekend at the snow.
Brisbane Lions' head of football Dean Warren is the first casualty of the club's horror season.
One of the most senior members of the Jehovah's Witness Church in Australia has been handling about one case of alleged child sexual abuse each week for the past two years, he told a royal commission.
Myanmar has appealed for international assistance to help more than 210,000 people affected by widespread flooding after heavy monsoon rains.
With about a third of 14 to 29-year-olds no longer watching traditional TV orpPay TV, advertisers and content producers are looking to new platforms to find an audience.
Pedro Costa begins with a series of stills from celebrated 19th-century New York photographer Jacob Riis, who documented a city and its poor; it then turns its attention to Cape Verde immigrants in a rundown Lisbon neighbhourhood.
Disaster managers were overtaken by a sense of disbelief as they learned "half a town" had disappeared in an instant.
Two separate (but maybe related?) things happened on Wednesday morning, which together suggest that wildly popular streaming video company Netflix is a pretty nice place to work.
It's got a good address, street appeal, and presumably one very unhappy owner.
What got announced today?
Malcolm Turnbull doesn't like the term "travel entitlement". The communicationally gifted Communications Minister is a former journalist and barrister, so he knows a thing or two about the power of words in conveying the correct meaning.
The National Capital Authority's proposed changes to the National Capital Plan as it pertains to City Hill and West Basin is a travesty being forced on Canberra.
Australia's two premier economic institutions seem to have done no scenario planning or war gaming in the past 12 months on how they would respond if the country plunged into its first recession in almost a quarter century.
Xavier Rudd and the United Nations to hit UC Refectory in September.
Apple prides itself on producing more secure gadgets than rivals, but these latest bugs may have iFans worried.
Rebecca Gibney will produce and star in a Seven Network mini-series to be filmed around Queensland in September, while ancient spiders will come to life in a feature film shot the following month.
Les Munro 1919–2015
Four of the brightest talents in contemporary Australian music have combined to release a fiery anti-racism song in the wake of the Adam Goodes booing controversy.
West Australian state MP Peter Abetz, brother of Senator Eric Abetz, says his reaction was "mixed" when he first learned his great uncle was a convicted Nazi war criminal.
The majority of Australia's top listed companies are set to boost their dividend payouts this year, despite a rocky financial year which saw the ASX 200 return just 1.2 per cent.
NSW has been accused of leading the country in quality and compliance problems in nursing homes.
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