Regardless of whether you believe Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting should be competing at these Games, all concerned would do well to remember they are human beings.

Djab Wurrung man Zellanach Djab Mara said the Australian government "had no consent or jurisdiction to remove that tree".

Djab Wurrung man Zellanach Djab Mara said the Australian government "had no consent or jurisdiction to remove that tree".

Eastern barred bandicoots are the first Australian species that was considered extinct in the wild to be successfully reintroduced and have its conservation status downgraded.

The company behind soft plastic collection points at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets has admitted it has not been recycling the items.

Rio Tinto funded a salvage mission at two rock shelters to safeguard any artefacts, but the dig turned up finds whose significance exceeded all expectations.

This is the first time an alleged incident of a Nazi salute has been reported to police since new legislation took effect.

More consumers want to electrify their homes. But getting their gas permanently disconnected can be a confusing and expensive process.

Australia’s unique environment and biodiversity is facing an extinction crisis, but politicians are barely mentioning it. Why?

Global warming is changing Australia’s weather for the worse and a new study shows for the first time this is the key driver of deadly bushfires.

Just a few years ago, only 17 orange-bellied parrots remained in the wild. Today the outlook is brighter than it has been for a long time. How was it done?

Science agencies have taken a month longer than usual to release a survey of coral bleaching, potentially avoiding controversy during the federal election.

They are beloved trees in the Australian landscape, but snow gums face an existential threat.

Governments worldwide are failing to cut global greenhouse emissions rapidly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and avoid catastrophic climate change.

Inspired by a successful case in Europe, Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai are taking the Australian government to court in a bid to force urgent climate action.

Concerns about the health risks of cooking with gas indoors prompted our environment reporter to trial a pollution monitor in her home.

For many Matildas fans, the joy of representation runs much deeper than sport.

Djab Wurrung man Zellanach Djab Mara said the Australian government "had no consent or jurisdiction to remove that tree".

Treasury has been directed by Jim Chalmers to examine the cost and impact of climate change, something it stopped after the election of the Abbott government.

Many of the young Victorians who leave state care are poorly equipped to deal with the challenges of adult life.

A Melbourne refugee health service is calling for doctors to donate their time to its vulnerable patients, with many on the brink of losing income support. 

Nour Haydar told this masthead her decision was straightforward after the broadcaster’s coverage came under scrutiny from journalists within its own newsrooms.

A small, regional, not-for-profit team of scientists buy a commercial blue gum plantation and transform it back into the wetland it once was.

More than 30 years after the royal commission into deaths in custody began, imprisonment is still inflicting fatal damage on Indigenous families.

Smoke from the Black Summer bushfires increased cloud cover over the Pacific, cooled sea surface temperatures and likely influenced the formation of the rare triple La Nina weather pattern.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who’s always telling us how hard he and his pensioner mother did it, has a moral imperative to ease the burden of the jobless.

Labor’s agenda may be modest, but it is hard to discern a serious Coalition platform despite its nine years in power.

Emissions will erode petroglyphs, scientists warn

They've lost aunts, mothers and grandmothers to domestic violence. But now a small group of women in Alice Springs is making a stand – and creating big changes in their families' lives.

At least 50 people were arrested while protesting against the cutting down of Djab Wurrung trees at the site of a highway duplication project north-west of Melbourne.

Victoria becomes the second last state to decriminalise the "racist" law against public drunkenness, after first being recommended more than three decades ago.

They've lost aunts, mothers and grandmothers to domestic violence. But now a small group of women in Alice Springs is making a stand – and creating big changes in their families' lives.