By sharing their favourite childhood stories with their own children, parents can help boost their kids’ engagement with the text and support a lifelong love of reading. Lawn Mowing Service...
Almost $13 billion has been set aside to rescue the Murray-Darling river system from environmental disaster but what is being achieved with that money? Farmers use more than 80 per cent of the water consumed in the basin to produce a...
Updated June 30, 2018 14:00:17 Australia’s iconic stock routes are languishing after years of neglect and are in danger of being privatised, drovers and ecologists warn. Key points: Travelling stock routes (TSRs) are parcels of Crown land, used to move cattle...
By Sophie Volker Posted June 30, 2018 13:57:58 Photo: Police believe the man may have been involved in a fight on Friday morning. (ABC News: Sophie Volker) Loud bangs and screams came from a property west of Brisbane where a man...
Updated June 29, 2018 09:22:59 Photo: Protesters in the Brisbane CBD this week called for the State Government to decriminalise abortion. (ABC: Kristian Silva) A highly anticipated Queensland Law Reform Commission (LRC) report examining whether abortion should be decriminalised will be...
Updated June 29, 2018 08:12:21 Photo: Bec King stands with her family in front of the Cunnamulla coffee shop. (Supplied: Bec King) An outback cafe in south-west Queensland is hoping to help diversify the drought-stricken livestock industry by creating a market...
Posted June 29, 2018 06:58:27 Map: Toowoomba 4350 Prudence Melom is convinced storytelling can change the world. The former refugee, from Chad, moved to Toowoomba in 2007 armed with only one word of English. “The only thing I knew to say...
New laws aimed at stamping out modern slavery in Australia and overseas have been introduced in Federal Parliament. The Labor opposition has labelled the proposed reforms “toothless”, but plans to grant them bipartisan support. Key points modern slavery bill Key points...
Posted June 26, 2018 06:35:03 A former CSIRO scientist has accused the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) of “interfering” in his research, around the time environmental goals were being developed for the Basin Plan. Australian National University lecturer Dr Matthew Colloff led...
Posted June 24, 2018 09:05:01 Photo: Alpacas peer out of a holding pen at Mittagong, NSW. (ABC Illawarra: Justin Huntsdale) Record volumes of alpaca fleece are being shipped to China in what is hoped will set the industry up as a...
