Mining billionaire Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest goes all-in on Global Rapid Rugby but establishing the fundamentals of the start-up league is more important than securing high-profile talent, according to its new chief.

An audit initiated after London's Grenfell Tower fire which claimed more than 70 lives identifies 14 private West Australian buildings as having high-risk cladding and dozens of others requiring remedial work.

Since she was 11, an eating disorder has controlled much of Ruby Alarcon Gleeson's life. Then when she turned 16, she fell through the gaps into a "chasm of care" just when she needed help the most.

A woman accused of killing her two young daughters faces a bedside court hearing in hospital, several days after the girls' bodies were discovered in their home in Perth's northern suburbs.

The uncertainty, isolation, and danger posed by the Coronavirus pandemic affects the mental health of many people - but for those on the frontline, all of those feelings can be heightened. We talk to health professionals who have been managing their own panic attacks and anxiety. 

Port Beach's Coast pub and surf life saving rooms should be moved and some Rottnest Island holiday bungalows should be pushed back from the beach in the long term, a report into WA coastal erosion hotspots says.

Locals say bad driving mainly from tourists is to blame for a spate of fatal crashes on a stretch of Indian Ocean Drive north of Perth, after the latest serious accident left two foreigners dead.

Friends and relatives of a woman who died in hospital after being shot by police on a suburban street in Geraldton question why police did not employ pepper spray or a Taser instead, as a protest erupts outside the local police station over what they say was excessive force.

Jayden Whyte tried to get help twice on the day he died. Now he is being remembered through a striking grassroots project that could help others before it's too late.

The Keith and District Hospital will receive $140,000 lifeline to keep operating until July under a new deal struck by the South Australian Government and Tatiara District Council.

In the 1980s, a revolutionary new computer, run by cassette, was changing lives forever.

Brooke Littlewood was facing a two-month wait for a regional psychologist when she decided to create a series of beer coasters for others who may be struggling.

The head of Angel Flight calls for a Senate review into an ATSB report that found the charity is seven times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash, but the authority says its calculations were correct.

A car carrying two adults and three children hit a tree and caught fire at Durong, about 90 kilometres north-west of Kingaroy this afternoon, with the driver believed to have swerved to avoid a kangaroo.

Not many music festivals would encourage fans to get naked for their events, but the Gympie Music Muster in south-east Queensland is doing just that.

The threat of flooding to Australia's coastal areas due to climate change is very real for some with the luxury seaside shire of Noosa in Queensland formally declaring a "climate emergency".

Low lying areas are swamped, millions of people have hours to evacuate and destruction on a mass scale is predicted by scientists who have mapped the worst-case scenarios for how Queensland's coastline would be impacted if a one-in-10,000-year tsunami hit.

Why does the Australian Tax Office require people to tick a mental illness box for early access to their superannuation to fund gender transition surgery?

Defence says it "proactively tested" members for COVID-19 in the Middle East after it was notified a number of locally engaged contractors had tested positive to COVID-19.

A group of shearers tired of losing loved ones to suicide hope that, by sharing their stories, they can spark a broader conversation about mental health in regional areas.

The word, which describes an iconic blend ingredients, is finally set for official recognition along with a special reference to a certain town where the dish is virtually a staple.

Taxi driver Reg Kelly will bear the scars of a murder attempt for the rest of his life, but he wants to thank his home town for rallying to his side.

In the old tin mosque in Broken Hill, Samia made a discovery that disproved what historians had thought for more than 40 years.

Real estate agents say Albany's rental market has tightened significantly in recent times.

Western Australia's bulk grain handler says it has already received about 12.5 million tonnes of grain during this year's harvest and there is still more to come from southern areas.

A new strategy to reduce fatal shark attacks is being implemented with baited drum lines to be set along popular beaches in Perth and the South West. Sharks will also be caught and killed if they enter zones near those beaches because they will be considered an imminent threat. The measures follow six fatal attacks by sharks in WA in two years. Opponents say sharks deserve respect and protection.

Like sex and birth, death has always been hushed up. Death Cafes are a forum where there are no answers, only questions, says Sigari Luckwell of Bunbury.

The outgoing Mental Health Commissioner says the state's Indigenous population is over-represented in the suicide rate.

What does it take to prepare for a pandemic? Many hospitals around the world are already overwhelmed by patients infected with COVID-19. Australian doctors and nurses are bracing for something most of them have never faced before. In our country hospitals, resources are already stretched: beds are in short supply and there’s a greater proportion of older people. Preparation will, in many cases, be the difference between life and death.
 ABC National Regional Reporter Jess Davis takes us inside the Wimmera Base Hospital in Horsham, Victoria, as the team tries to prepare for the unimaginable.

Flamboyant fascinators and fedoras, once destined for fashion's grandest stages, help to overcome isolation and mental health issues in outback Australia.

Hugh Bowman is one of the world's best jockeys and now he is set to be immortalised in art, in his home town of Dunedoo, alongside champion mare Winx.

Is modern capitalism, itself, a threat to the survival of capitalism? Or will corporations always find a way to monetise misery? Paul Barclay speaks to Yanis Varoufakis and Antony Loewenstein

A source has told the ABC that a teenager found dead in a remote Pilbara town this morning had recently given birth.

A recent inquiry finds first responders have PTSD at a rate more than double that of the general population. So how are those who care for us caring for themselves?

Police have charged a NSW man with murder after what witnesses described as a furious chase during which shots were fired before one of the cars rolled and burst into flames.

In 1979, protesters blocked the path of bulldozers to stop the logging of a rainforest on the New South Wales north coast, the first blockade of its kind in Australia.

Lemonade stalls, street libraries and honesty boxes have popped up all over Brisbane's streets as residents look for ways to keep engaged in their community during isolation.

A hospital in north-west Queensland says emergency department admissions have fallen by 20 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic.

Queensland's first digital driver's licences have been rolled out on the Fraser Coast and developers and cyber experts agree, the technology gives users more protection against identity theft.

The Mount Isa Medical Centre is taking over the testing service to ensure people with respiratory symptoms are checked, despite no cases being recorded in the city.

Authorities say a "perfect storm" has caused a disturbing rise in domestic violence cases, as the parents of murdered woman Hannah Clarke ask Queenslanders to support a vigil to remember victims.

A grand slam of a different kind has seen two Brisbane nurses take on the world's best tennis players high in the sky on a hospital rooftop.