On Monday Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will make a national apology to the survivors, many of whom suffered years of neglect and abuse in state care.
The tsunami-devastated Pacific island nation of Samoa has received a $400,000 firetruck from Victoria.
Now one of the world's slowest moving creatures—a tree snail—has been named in Irwin's honour.
Australia is missing out on a new breed of 'metro-spiritual' travelers because of a lack of eco-accommodation.
Thousands of people have observed a minute of silence in the usually bustling centre of Sydney to mark Remembrance Day.
Homebirthing is a common phenomenon in most parts of the world, but in Australia, fears surrounding the process are threatening its acceptability.
Australia's first naval battle was a fiery two-hour showdown with a German light cruiser just 3,000km from our shores.
The greatest ever Australian crawl to prove that the impossible is possible, has begun over the Kokoda trail.
The NSW government has declared the shires of Nambucca, Bellingen and Kempsey, and Coffs Harbour on the mid north coast natural disaster areas.
Police have praised an Australia Post worker who handed in a parcel containing $100,000 she found behind a post office in Melbourne's southeast.