Sustainable farming for this Eyre Peninsula family means organic, holistic practices and homeschooling four children.

South Australia Police are investigating a video that appears to show an off-duty officer badly injuring or killing a wombat by throwing rocks at it, but an Aboriginal elder says it is a local hunting practice.

Violent standover man Hizir Ferman may have "progressively suffocated" to death when Victorian prison officers used their body weight to pin him to the ground after forcibly removing him from his cell, an inquest has been told.

A disease is wreaking havoc on Australian beehives, and one PhD student and beekeeper is trying to find out why.

A man has been found not guilty of killing his 13-week-old son in regional Victoria, eight years after the baby died.

IBM is hiring 10 employees with autism at its Client Innovation Centre in Ballarat, joining the growing trend of neurodiversity programs in the workplace.

This year's Budget reflects a horrific summer of natural disasters, with increased support for natural disasters and drought relief.

Hateful language in parliament filters to the street, advocates say, and it can lead to disaffection so deep in some Australians that they choose not to vote at all.

Usually, federal elections are decided outside Victoria. This one could be different, with Bill Shorten hoping to pick up a number of seats in his home state that were once considered Liberal bastions.

An expert policy advisor says until governments properly fund crisis accommodation for family violence perpetrators the risk to victims will only escalate.

A four-year study into faith communities has found Muslims experience acts of violence on an individual basis like no other religious adherents.

The You Ask, We Answer election project has received dozens of questions about immigration with many concerned about how Australia can care for new migrants.

On the outskirts of Bendigo in central Victoria, a farm run by a social worker is helping children and adults with behavioural and mental health issues.

Amateur photographer Kristan Emerson is legally blind and is helping other people with visual impairments to experience travel and foreign cultures through his eyes.

Finding the seal that is tangled in fishing line is the easy part for the Marine Response Unit, but helping the animal while staying safe from the rest of its colony is much more difficult.

Parishioners in rural communities are increasingly perform the role of priests, taking funerals and Sunday celebrations into their own hands.

You don't need to travel to the South Pole to get a perfect photo of the green and pink lights of the aurora australis there's incredible vantage points right here in our own backyard.

A Victorian man is expected to be charged with the manslaughter of his 35-year-old partner Shae Francis, who was last seen when she visited her mother at the Hervey Bay Hospital in October.

Victorian agriculture authorities are investigating allegations of cruelty at the Bridgewater Poultry Farm, after footage released by Animal Liberation appeared to show workers mistreating chickens they were culling.

Tanya Day died of traumatic brain injuries after she was arrested for public drunkenness in December, 2017. Lawyers for the Indigenous woman's family are now asking the Victorian coroner to consider whether systemic racism was a factor in her death.

Prison officers and nurses could have done more to prevent the death of underworld figure Hizir Ferman, who suffocated to death inside a Victorian prison after a stand-off with guards, a coroner finds.

With only one in four Australians staying with the same employer for 10 years or more, there is a call for a national portable long service leave scheme in Australia.

Days before she was due to give birth, Krystal Fraser discharged herself from a country Victorian hospital and has not been seen since. Police believe a call she received from a public phone box is the key to finding her suspected killer.

Families of loved ones who live with epilepsy are now relying on trained dogs to detect their seizures, and one mother says their dog saved her son's life on multiple occasions.

At first he thought it was just a rusty bullet case, but further inspection showed it to be worth much, much more.

The daughters of Kerry Robertson, 61, the first Victorian to use the state's Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, say their mother's death was "beautiful and peaceful".

Victoria moves to decriminalise public drunkenness on the eve of a coronial inquest into the death of Aboriginal woman Tanya Day, who suffered head injuries in a police cell in 2017.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is investigating footage of a man fishing from a chair that's being towed by a homemade drone in central Victoria.

It's hoped a new house using a shared-ownership model will give people with disabilities a chance at home ownership and semi-independent living, but it comes with a $300,000 price tag per person.

Hopeful prospectors flock to Victoria's goldfields in search of a lucky strike, but the region is also a hotbed of scientific discovery thanks to the number of meteorites found there.

The councillor who spoke out against the use of ring girls at a council-sponsored boxing match resigns, saying she's been attacked by colleagues and members of the community.

For players of the Balloon Football League, or BFL, the passion and competitiveness is just as intense as AFL the only difference being the players are disabled.

A local council warns Victoria's "culture of recycling" is at risk as the state's waste crisis deepens and an estimated 780 rubbish trucks' worth of recyclable material is sent to landfill in a week.

Three men accused of attacking staff at a youth justice centre in central Victoria with a plastic cricket bat will be sent to adult prison. It follows another incident earlier this week when an inmate allegedly attacked a worker with a makeshift knife.

A Victorian woman who entered a sexualised relationship with a 14-year-old WA boy has been jailed but immediately released after a judge deemed her past had left her with "clouded boundaries".

As more children are diagnosed with both anorexia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), experts call for more research to come up with better treatment and support.

A judge indicates a woman who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving over the death of cyclist Jason Lowndes, who was killed when he was struck from behind while on a training run in 2017, is unlikely to go to jail.

Buried among the hundreds of witness statements submitted to the aged care royal commission is a table showing how one of the country's biggest for-profit chains employs just one registered nurse for 106 residents on the night shift.