James Tugwell

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sung would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later.

The NLA has more than 10 million items, but they are all in storage. Now a new exhibition reveals a selection of its hidden treasures.

Men make up more than 75 per cent of all suicide deaths in Australia, but Lifeline says they only make up about 40 per cent of helpline service users — and even when men do seek help they experienced "high levels of disengagement".

They were treated as "heroes and angels" during the pandemic years, but the number of occupational violence incidents against healthcare workers and staff working in Canberra's Health Services is steadily increasing, new documents reveal.

Financial errors are being blamed for one school being hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and hiking school fees by 23 per cent.

A community-led hiking program is introducing migrants to the bush, offering moments of connection, discovery and, for some, a sense of safety.

The family of a 17-year-old Indigenous boy says he was racially profiled when he was pulled from a Canberra bus by police officers who handcuffed him before realising he was the wrong person.

Dozens of public schools in the ACT will reopen or partially open on Tuesday, but 25 remain closed for all students.

Seventeen schools were shut down on Friday after concerns about asbestos exposure. The reopening of one of the schools has been fast-tracked.

Schools in Canberra and Brisbane are closed today due to asbestos in decorative coloured sand.

People across Australia have gathered to commemorate Remembrance Day and honour those who have died while serving in conflicts and peace-keeping operations.

When approached by the ABC this morning, Canberra Liberals leader Leanne Castley would not provide an explanation for why two backbenchers were removed from the party room but insisted they were allowed to cross the floor.

Former party leader Elizabeth Lee and backbencher Peter Cain have been suspended indefinitely from the Canberra Liberals party room.

This spring offers a critical window to see if man-made "bungalows" installed in rivers can help a struggling fish species. If they work, they could provide a path forward for restoring other battling Australian freshwater fish populations.

An ACT defence lawyer has accused the Director of Public Prosecutions of wasting time and money running cases with "no reasonable prospect of success".

Families have been left "totally blindsided" by the closure of Gungahlin United Football Club, as the club's debts more than double to $550,000. 

Just last year, the club won the league, and a former president was jailed for stealing $20k. Now they are going to fold.

Eighteen months after Canberran Cathy Weeden and her kids purchased a home and left temporary accommodation, she received out-of-the-blue correspondence that she owed $50,000.

It started a researcher down a rabbit hole "beyond anything anyone could ever dream up", involving deception, double agents, secret names and plans for a genocide.

In the 41 years since the first Australians summitted Mt Everest, the mountain has been transformed into a tourist attraction. Does the original magic still exist?  

A Canberra man has captured footage of the dramatic moment a magpie plucked his earphone from his ear.

Towering over a service station at a well-known rest stop on the road between Canberra and Sydney, Goulburn's Big Merino is turning 40.

Eight days into her new role as interim vice-chancellor at the Australian National University, Rebekah Brown sat down for an exclusive ABC interview to share her plan for getting the institution back on track.

Jimmy Barnes is among more than 40 music voices supporting an open letter to the embattled Australian National University (ANU) calling for the School of Music to be saved.

The ACT's superb fairy-wren population has declined by 60 per cent since counting began in the 1980s, but this last winter the figures were even worse, new research has revealed.