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The altruists Sandra Mahlberg: 'We don't realise how spoilt we are in Australia'

What does it take to offer help with little expectation of reward? Our series The altruists focuses on those who do just that, such as this retired nurse who helps underprivileged children

Published: 13 Apr 2018

Perth woman wins right to take dead partner's sperm to ACT

WA supreme court grants 42-year-old right to use extracted sperm in bid to become pregnant

Published: 20 Mar 2018

South Australia and ACT outvoted on national energy guarantee

Government secures agreement to continue work on its proposed mechanism without direct comparison with alternative schemes

Published: 23 Nov 2017

Australian road deaths rise for second year, reaching almost 1,300 in 2016

Two successive rises in the number of annual road deaths have bucked a long-term downward trend since 1970, when 3,798 people died

Published: 1 Jan 2017

Innovations in renewables Hydrogen cars and electrolysers: the dawn of Australia's hydrogen economy?

Two large-scale hydrogen facilities in the ACT could mark a turning point in the use of clean tech for transport and heating

Published: 2 Oct 2016

Bushfires: 10 homes lost in Victoria before cool change sweeps through

Residents in areas surrounding the Barnawartha blaze told to evacuate and a fire in NSW breaks containment lines

Published: 20 Dec 2015

Ash cloud's return causes flight chaos in Australia

Ash from Chile's Cordón Caulle volcano grounds domestic flights in and out of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra

Published: 21 Jun 2011