A teenager accused of cutting another boy’s hand off in a park has faced a children’s court.

Australia could be a leader in women’s health innovation, but investors are not prioritising health tech and it is sending female innovators overseas.

The world will exceed 1.5 degrees of warming within years, a United Nations report has found, exposing communities to more extreme heatwaves, cyclones, floods, fires and rising sea levels.

Social media empires are being put on notice for content that promotes controlling, violent sexual acts.

Australian women are less likely than men to stay in high-paid roles because of domestic expectations, despite entering them at the same rate.

Hundreds of staff at Australia’s oldest university are set to walk off the job amid concerns over artificial intelligence.

Skinny culture is trending again, according to the internet.

Anthony Albanese is heading to the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting against the backdrop of Australia’s strategic ascendancy in the region.

Australia’s transport safety regulator said on Friday it ​had launched an investigation into a fourth incident involving air traffic control at Sydney airport in less ‌than a month after two planes were directed towards the same intersection on the ground.

Half a million Australians have no access to desperately needed drug and alcohol addiction help, and funding uncertainty is intensifying the risk to existing services, a peak health provider warns.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelled Israel’s response to the attack as a “so-called” and “nothing to see here” report.

Australia summoned Israel’s ambassador and expressed outrage at a decision by its military not ​to pursue criminal proceedings over the death of an Australian aid worker in ‌a 2024 airstrike in Gaza.