Many Nimbin residents have welcomed Federal Government plans to legalise medicinal cannabis and say their town would be an ideal hub for the new potential cash crop.

Townsville children can get a head start ahead of school, with a new mobile playgroup.

It takes a lot to put six television programs, and a host of radio shows, to air from a regional city, but that is what the ABC did in Toowoomba.

There is no shortage of heritage to celebrate and preserve at the New Norcia Monastery in Western Australia's Mid West.

Amidst the reflections of cars and signs in the Toowoomba CBD, 12 faces of residents have appeared in empty shop fronts to celebrate the diversity of people who call the garden city home.

Want to grow herbs and keep fish in your kitchen? Aquaculture could be for you.

Tarrington's Laternenfest has once again seen the town produce some fabulous hay bale creations ahead of the event in late November.

Day two of the 2015 Great Victorian Bike Ride was also our first official day of riding, and it was a near perfect day.

Day three of three of this year's Great Victorian Bike Ride took us down more country lanes as we wound our way to Dunolly.

Day five of this year's Great Victorian Bike Ride took us along more country backroads as we made our way to Bendigo for the rest day.

After the rest day, we've climbed back onto our bikes to brave the heat and pedal from Bendigo to Heathcote.

Today we had a hot, hilly day as we made our way from Heathcote to Castlemaine.

The COVID-19 death toll at the Newmarch nursing home rose to 14 over the weekend, while a further 63 infections have been linked to staff and other residents.

The Auckland-based club arrived in Tamworth in the New England region of NSW yesterday for a 14-day period of training and quarantine.

Over the next couple of days we'll pass through the densest part of the long trail of ancient dust left by Halley's comet.

The Morrison Government is pushing ahead with a plan to become a world leading producer and exporter of hydrogen.

Retailers have been at the economic epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, with mass shutdowns in place for the past five weeks.

There are questions around Indonesia's coronavirus death toll following reports thousands of people have died with COVID-19 symptoms but not recorded as victims of the disease.

The case could have ramifications for climate challenges worldwide, including in Australia.

The economic impact of the pandemic on Australia's regional towns and cities is varied, but with a smaller population base, the path back to recovery is likely to be longer and harder for many.

National Cabinet will meet on Friday to start lifting restrictions in a three stage process to lock in what the Prime Minister is calling "a sustainable COVID safe economy".

The Prime Minister is laying the groundwork for Australia to re-open for business and wants what he calls a "COVID-19 safe economy" by July.

The former South Australian Premier said it's now time for states and territories to take control of childcare and treat them more like schools.

The national cabinet is looking at a range of strategies to get us out of lockdown, ahead of a crunch meeting tomorrow.

With the focus now firmly on rebooting Australia's economy, the Morrison Government intends to cut green tape and speed up nation building projects such as major roads, dams and mines.

With Australia's music festivals cancelled one after another as the coronavirus crisis unfolded, there was finally some good news yesterday for local music lovers.

While Australia continues to flatten the curve in this COVID-19 pandemic, there are serious concerns for the mental wellbeing of Australians.

Certain sounds called spherics and whistlers, which are electromagnetic waves, recorded in Antarctica by scientists, have been used in a new music piece called 'Aurora Musicalis'.

Not every state and territory has put into law the code of conduct, which aims to provide rental waivers and deferrals for commercial tenants.

National Cabinet has already set a two-month timetable for the return to the workplace of the estimated one million Australians currently working from home.

Cardinal Pell said in a statement yesterday that he was "surprised" by some of the views of the royal commission about his actions, and that "these views are not supported by evidence".

Voters in Eden Monaro are still waiting to find out who the Liberal candidate will be for the by-election in the marginal seat.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants "to get Australia back to work", and says he's now focused on flattening the unemployment curve and creating a "COVID-safe economy".

The Couch Choir is a digital initiative that's grown out of the Brisbane-based Pub Choir, which has cancelled all it's events because of the COVID-19 restrictions.

Bright minds are being encouraged to consider jobs in fashion, rather than traditional STEM careers such as engineering and mathematics.

The small rural community of Torrita fights to keep safe speed limits through their town, and to acknowledge their existence.

An 85-year-old woman in rural Victoria campaigns for a bus stop outside her retirement village.

Citrus growers on the lower Darling River stare down an unprecedented disaster, with some being forced to abandon their crops as they wait for the Federal Government to agree to a water buyback.

A former deputy mayor could face trials in two states for shooting his mother and brother on either side of the NSW-Victoria border, after police in NSW issued a warrant for his arrest.

The Victorian Government is set to announce that it will take over the running of the state's only privately run public hospital.

Humans get exercise in many ways, including training and competing with their dogs in agility trials. So is it time the competition is officially recognised as a sport?

South Australia'sdecisiontoaxe its banongeneticallymodified cropscouldopen the doors for the cotton industry many locals have traditionally opposed.

An effigy of Federal Water Minister David Littleproud, dumped into the Murray River at a protest over the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is continuing to float towards South Australia.

A council in far west New South Wales has started trucking water to the remote Darling River town of Pooncarie, which is expected to run out of raw water within days.

Barkandji native title holders in far-west New South Wales say they are learning to speak the language of government as they propose a major cross-agency organisation to manage the Darling River, or Baaka.

Growing up alongside thesprawling green parks and shopping malls of Melbourne's Craigieburn, finding a connection to her Indigenous ancestry was complicated, until she was invited onto the remote and sacred lands of Lake Mungo.

Catherine Hamlin was born in Sydney. She worked in Ethiopia pioneering medical treatment for young women damaged by unsuccessful childbirth. In 2000, Pauline Newman visited Catherine Hamlin and her famous hospital in Addis Ababa. Catherine Hamlin died in March 2020 at the age of 93. By way of tribute today we revisit Pauline’s program from nearly 20 years ago.

John Houghton, a Welsh atmospheric physicist who bridged the science, policy and religious communities and served as lead editor of ground-breaking studies for the United Nations’ climate science advisory group when it won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, died April 15 in Wales. He was 88.