Новости за 12.01.2019

The possible electrocution risk is not the only problem facing Canberra's outrageously expensive light rail project.

It's starting to look like nurturing a healthy gut is the single best thing you can do for your offspring's future health.

Kevin Jackson has been flying water-bombing aircraft for 20 years and is in Australia from Canada for the summer.

Parents are turning their backs on boys-only high schools and demanding mixed-gender education for their sons. Yet the popularity of girls schools is booming.

A collaboration between Commonwealth Bank and the University of Melbourne makes some telling observations

Cables have been installed under a bridge, reducing the capacity for floodwaters to pass through and potentially pushing them onto the tracks.

Want to coax your kids away from their screens? Here are five adventures suitable for primary-school aged kids, each finishing with a yummy ice cream.

The co-captain of Australia's only inland lifesaving club has endorsed plans to set up a similar service in the ACT after a recent drowning.

Wildlife authorities have moved swiftly to deal with a mix of animals trapped in mud near dried-out lakes at Menindee amid calls for more action to ease an "animal welfare crisis".

Australian actress Mia Wasikowska has mixed it with some of Hollywood's biggest names, but all she really wants is some quality home time.

NSW politicians have banned phones in primacy schools but parents and teachers' unions say they are necessary learning tools.

Some people who are naturally petite have rejected the term, saying that they too are forced to deal a constant barrage of faux-concern.

It turns out that a simple swig of water contains a huge variety of salts and suspended particles such as silt and organic matter.

The vulnerable birds appear to have adapted to development in Canberra's north by moving to nesting trees further from the urban edge.

Criminal intelligence agencies have advised the government that corrupt agents pose a serious risk which may require greater powers to combat.

One afternoon I binge watched the series, culled two garbage bags of stuff, hit up Ikea and went to bed with a sense of calm and order.

Feeding crocodiles, handling lizards, showing snakes to school children. It's all in a day's work for Peter Child.

Free daily horoscope for each star sign from renowned Astrologer Kelli Fox. Forecasts for the week ahead in life, love and career.

There were 42,451 total offences recorded in the ACT in 2018, down 12.7 per cent from 48,620 the year before.

Cecilia Rumore's documentary draws on the stories of ABC journalist Nas Campanella in asking audiences to lift their expectations of people with disabilities.

19 babies were born at home (with one due imminently) after two years of the ACT's home birth trial.

Defectors claim that the Church of Scientology's number of followers in NSW are dwindling and they are reliant on overseas recruits.

In my dreams Donald Trump and I are sometimes marooned together on a desert island or aboard a jetliner on a long, long, nonstop international flight.

Scott Keogh has worked as a taxidermist for more than 30 years. But it wasn't easy to start out in the field.

Pittwater House School argues its model of separating boys and girls in class but bringing them together in the playground is the "best of both worlds".