Nearly 100 jobs pay better in country Australia, with 67,000 roles available outside the cities, according to new research encouraging workers to make the move.
Stephanie Gardiner
West Australians are ditching traditional funerals for more personalised memorials, including ‘living wakes’ where the terminally ill can attend their own celebration.
Kate Emery
International Women's Day will have a star-studded line-up of speakers at events across Australia, celebrating this year's theme of March Forward.
Maeve Bannister
The State Government has promised to ban conversion therapy but new laws will not be passed until after the March election, which it is widely expected to win.
Overseas workers employed by the Australian meat processing industry have their freedoms restricted, work long hours and do unpaid labour, a snapshot shows.
Rallies have been held in major capitals and regional centres to support transgender youth as the peak medical body reviews care that one state has paused.
Rachael Ward and Neve Brissenden
Hundreds of court security and custodial officers have gone on strike for eight hours, demanding a 24 per cent pay rise.
Aaron Bunch
Once a sacred social tradition, the days of ‘buying a round’ at the pub may be on borrowed time.
Kayla and Raven Te Awa’s newborn son is not just one of the firstborn in Perth in 2025, he is also one of the first of a new generation.
Rachel Fenner
The head of WA’s oldest women’s crisis refuge Nardine would ‘knock it down and start all over again’ if she had her way.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Drinking cultures and alcohol regulations are in the sights of anti-violence campaigners amid data showing domestic violence spikes during the festive season.
Luke Costin
Right on the north-east fringes of the Wheatbelt, the little farming town of Beacon’s motto is ‘living on the edge’.
Olivia Ford
The modern midlife crisis, according to Perth psychologist Marny Lishman, looks like fatigue and burnout.
To understand why Luigi Mangione, the American accused of gunning down a healthcare executive, has become an online folk hero you have to first understand the state of the profit-driven US healthcare system.
A Perth chef who bragged about ‘getting the hose out’ to stop homeless people from sleeping in front of hospitality venues says he is ‘deeply remorseful’ for his comments.
Electricity workers are preparing to walk off the job as a pay dispute, simmers, with regional residents warned of potential blackouts at the start of summer.
Violent men are using everyday items including teddy bears, pot plants, prams and cars to keep tabs on their victims in a bid to extend their terror.
The law threatens to upend the business model of some of the world’s most valuable companies as they face a global backlash against problems blamed on their services.
Angus Whitley, Newley Purnell and Ben Westcott
The percentage of young Australians worrying about the cost of living has more than doubled in two years and it is now their biggest concern, a survey suggests.
Abe Maddison
What if public toilets weren't dingy and dark but opened the door to a world beyond ones and twos? Designers, business and road safety advocates urge a rethink.
Australian parents won't be allowed to decide whether their children can use social media if they are under the age of 16.
Tess Ikonomou
Money absolutely can buy you happiness and $100,000 a year is no longer enough to guarantee it.
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation has described Jamie Oliver's book Billy and the Epic Escape as disrespectful.
Hannah Roberts
Prominent Australian children's entertainers are urging the federal government to pardon YouTube from its proposed social media ban to save an industry.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
