How fast can a new government dismantle an entire suite of environmental regulations? Surprisingly fast. Amazingly fast. Case in point: pro-development, pro-mining, Can-do Campbell Newman and the Australian state of ...

Flops, hits and collisions with Anne Bancroft: a daughter's life in the theatre, from napping the wings to wandering the world with her father in the next seat.

When 2,000 hives are poisoned in one night, it stings. On the trail of the slaughter leaving police and beekeepers baffled.

Social media is the new news-wire, with witnesses able to report events as they happen — but not without a lot of real-time blundering.

Does all the information we now have about science make us all experts? Australia's chief scientist is ready to argue the toss.

What was it like to have two mums — or four? Listen to some adult Australians who grew up with same-sex parents, share their family memories.

Coal mining has boomed close to regional towns. Now it's pushing out the industries that keep those towns ticking.

Performer Amanda Palmer took her latest album online and raised more in two weeks than any record label would have given her.

Chemistry, cliff-hangers and communing in tweets: how entertainment truisms keep getting tweaked to make gotta-talk-about-it TV.

Anders Behring Breivik wants the world to know he is sane. But how can someone who proudly admits to hunting down children not be mad?

Climate change was once a scientific issue prompting relatively universal concerns. How did it get labelled left-wing?

E-book sales are set to soar in the next few years, but Apple and some big publishers stand accused of cartel capers.

Women can’t always control condom use — and that's been one of the big challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS. But it could be changing.

We know that social media is changing the news landscape – but how are news organisations responding?

We all know Aussies like to swim. But why is it such a big deal?

Melbourne University’s Pip Pattison studies social networks – not the ones on the internet but the ones in our lives. And she’s also a deputy Vice Chancellor, mother and lover of maths.

As the internet grows more sophisticated, our individual interests and interactions will determine what we see and consume.

Mad Men’s sexist, brash world of 1960s ad men oddly speaks to women — especially those who thought this world was supposed to be history.

Our rubbish converges into huge floating tips. There are seven "garbage patches" causing havoc in our oceans.

The National Broadband Network is on its way, but is it value for money?

No one was convinced blood sugar levels made a difference to people who weren’t diabetic but Jennie Brand-Miller proved it.

A recent paper by two Melbourne academics explores the ethics of killing babies. Now they are the subject of death threats themselves.

Scientists are lining up to take the Pathfinder Telescope for a tour around the universe.

We hate the smell of petrol fumes, and the cost of petrol even more. But when will it be truly feasible to switch to electric cars?

She has been pivotal in modern scientific advances, but is still cracking the code on advancing women to the top of the field.

iTunes has millions of users around the world, but the security of the Apple store has been breached.

As the boom continues, a fractured network of regulators seems ill-equipped to properly check its impact.