Community and Society

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to visit Australia and Samoa for the first time since the King ascended to the throne.

Four former conspiracy theorists held beliefs that governed almost every aspect of their lives. Then, for each of them, a powerful trigger made them change their minds. Their stories offer insight into life inside the rabbit hole — and hope for escaping it.

For decades, thousands of people thought they were buying land and built their homes there. But the title holder was always a superannuation company, and now it has brought in the bulldozers. 

A pilots association is claiming aviation services all over Australia have seen a reduction in firefighting resources while Airservices Australia argues it has not reduced rescue firefighting resources.

An anonymous column from a former police officer, an investigation into a death in custody and a visual arts gallery feature in the first edition of a national prison newspaper. 

The battle for the surf has moved from the ocean to the pool where rival companies are spending tens of millions of dollars to create the perfect artificial wave.

Australian citizen Kira Korolev, an alleged Russian spy, was working as an assistant theatre director in Perth in 2010. 

Lynn Maney has been training and racing greyhounds for more than 50 years, and says the industry has "improved enormously" in the past decade despite a report released this week from the former NSW head vet which claims there is widespread animal abuse. 

A quarter of Australia's homeless are young people. While Chloe Hume and Trent Kiely are among them, a caravan by a river has offered them refuge from housing stress.

A new organic waste processing plant in Tasmania's north-west means more households will be able to have food and garden waste, known as FOGO, collected. But it's not always easy to offer these types of services in regional communities. 

A "psychopathic" paedophile, who later boasted of sexually abusing 2,000 boys, was employed as a Victorian Education Department school teacher despite declaring in a 1970s job application form that he was a convicted child abuser. 

Western Australia's CWA branches have welcomed men into their ranks after 100 years, with members voting almost unanimously to grant men membership rights.

Just six social homes have been built on vacant Tasmanian government land, six years after legislation supposed to "fast-track" their development passed state parliament.

7.30 has obtained footage showing police beating an Indigenous youth repeatedly with a baton in a watch house, sparking allegations of excessive use of force.

Within a year of landing her first full-time teaching job, Oh Jae Geun's daughter took her own life after overzealous parents ruthlessly scrutinised her performance and threatened to make criminal complaints to the police. 

An Israeli town 1 kilometre from the Lebanon border is all but deserted as the threat of a new war looms. Inside Lebanon, residents are also preparing for a full-scale conflict.

Anant Ambani, son of Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, is expected to marry Radhika Merchant on July 12.

Aunty Muriel Bamblett, a proud Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung woman, was honoured with the Person of the Year award in the 2024 National NAIDOC Week Awards celebrating First Nations excellence.

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten confirms he will ban sex work from being accessed through the disability insurance scheme, which advocates say would rob participants of the freedom to control their own lives.

Staff at a state secondary school in south-west Victoria need mental-health and wellbeing support at the school because of threatening student behaviour, according to WorkSafe. The government disagrees. 

During the COVID lockdowns, an online vigilantism soon became a defamation case in the NSW District Court. New legislation is aiming to avoid cases like this from happening again.

In his last week at the ABC, Landline's highly respected Murphy says a remarkable 45-year career that had him chasing stories all over the world has taught him one thing: "Everyone has a story." 

It's been a wild week in politics, both here in Australia and across the world. It's a reflection that recent events in the Middle East will continue to dominate and divide voters for some time to come. 

The criminal court case over the Tasmanian jumping castle tragedy, which claimed the lives of six children, has faced another delay over concerns over the inspection of the castle used that fateful day.

Sri Lanka has been rocked by a series of crises in the past two decades but locals are now urging tourists to return and enjoy its sights.