Australia

After his father stuck his hand in a woodchipper, Sam Vincent returned to the family farm to help out. The Walkley award-winning writer never expected to become a cattle and fig farmer himself.

How a musician from south-west Victoria travelled into the heart of Australia, and came back with "one of the most important songs ever written".

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each Australian jurisdiction.

The body of a 72-year-old man has been found in a burnt-out caravan in the south-west WA town of Manjimup. Police investigating the blaze say it is not suspicious.

When Olivia Riley was seven she had an operation on a brain tumour that left her with a condition impacting her balance, flexibility and coordination. But up in the air on a trapeze, she's totally at ease.

Two men on opposite sides of Australia suddenly discover their parents — and society —  had been keeping a very substantial secret from them, for decades.

A program supporting healthcare students to do their clinical work experience in the regions could be the lure for a career in regional Victoria. 

Australia's national science agency is gearing up to release a rust fungus as a biocontrol agent to stop the spread of the fast-growing weed flaxleaf fleabane.

Two people die in a horror crash at an off-road endurance motor race in Victoria's north-west.

Fresh from a marriage break-up, Brendan Murray was trying to land a job when he found himself struggling to complete the application form. It proved to be a turning point in his life.

It's been a problem for years and residents and businesses along the Tamar River in Northern Tasmania are struggling to understand why a solution still hasn't been found.

Opera singer Ben Segal is turning skate parks into classrooms where participation is optional — and the emphasis is on making a lot of noise.

Police say the 32-year-old man, who was at a house in Adelaide's north, died from self-inflicted wounds. 

New research suggests Australia's thunderbirds didn't die out from human nest raiders or crippling bone disease as previously thought. 

The 21-year-old was hit by a car at Aldinga Beach on Saturday night and died at the scene. 

Three Queensland Fire and Emergency crews work to retrieve the group from the Scooby-Doo roller-coaster at Movie World after they were stuck 10 metres in the air.

Organisers go to extraordinary lengths to make sure the Birdsville Races can go ahead after rain washes out the first day.

The 37-year-old shrugged off blood in his stool, bloating, fatigue and unexplained weight loss, wrongly believing the disease only affected the elderly. But experts say the at-risk age range is widening.

Central Australians will be treated to a spectacle later this month when giant balloon animals by artist Patricia Piccini take flight over Alice Springs and celebrate nature to the music of Jess Green.

The technology is being hailed as one way Australia can open new oil and gas projects while simultaneously combating climate change. But there are doubts CCS is up to the task. 

A 30-year water licence in the Northern Territory is believed to be one of the largest ever awarded in Australia, and traditional owners are hoping to overturn it.

After spending time in a high-security prison with a double killer, Ahmed Elomar now watches Sydney's gang wars from the sidelines. He's showing youth in the city's west crime is not worth it.

There is one sector of the finance industry where workers have maintained an above-average share of earnings, even as wages have plunged relative to profits elsewhere.

Missing for 40 years, Lyn Dawson's brother and sister have never given up hope they would find justice. ABC's Australian Story goes behind the scenes as her mother and her siblings prepared for the outcome of her husband Chris Dawson's murder trial and digest the guilty verdict.