Scout Wallen is a reporter on the breaking news desk in Brisbane. After completing her ABC News cadetship in Brisbane, Scout worked in Rockhampton, central Queensland, and was more recently the court reporter in Hobart.
The action, in which garment workers have clashed with police, is a culmination of the apparel industry's global supply chains, which human right experts say result in poor working conditions.
Votes are still being counted in some parts of the US, with the Republican Party having lost already control of the House and Senate. Read back on how events on Thursday, November 5 unfolded.
In an episode of Pauline Hanson's Please Explain series released in 2024, Bluey and former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews were depicted running over each other.
Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, defeats right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a run-off to secure a fourth non-consecutive term.
The comedian and actress made the announcement in a lighthearted video posted to social media.
The Ivy League university has been at the centre of international media attention following allegations a student was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024.
Victim-survivors of police officers are concerned they will not be believed or treated seriously because of the "interconnected relationships" that police have with each other, a Tasmanian inquiry hears.
Stephen Fane Noga is appealing against a Supreme Court decision, after he was sued by one of his former Hobart Matriculation College students for allegedly sexually abusing her in the 1980s.
Abuse survivor Grace Tame has told a Tasmanian court that she feared for her life, following tweets made by the man who sexually abused her as a child.
Diesel prices are nearing three dollars a litre in parts of Australia, with warnings a US move to restrict fuel exports could push prices even higher and leave Australia vulnerable to global supply pressures.
Regional industries and communities are feeling a "disproportionate impact" of rising bowser prices, a policy expert says.
Gen Z is the first generation to be pushing back against phone dependency and social media doomscrolling, an Australian researcher says.
A 28-year-old woman is charged with arson after a fire at the North West Regional Hospital in Burnie on Saturday night.
A Tasmanian man with more than 40 driving offences, and who has been disqualified from driving for more than 50 per cent of the time he was eligible to hold a licence, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for a fatal hit-and-run.
A new Australian study sheds light on how the Tasmanian tiger subdued its prey.
A Tasmanian woman will never be allowed to own a cat again, after almost 70 cats were found living in "squalid" conditions and a dozen kittens were found dead in her freezer.
The Human Rights Law Centre says a restrictive parole condition that stopped Sue Neill-Fraser from being able to claim her innocence in the media has been removed after a court challenge.
The amount Tasmania's government has paid in workers' compensation has risen by more than $100 million in a decade, prompting a review of the scheme.
Former professional cricketer Aaron Summers will spend 10 months in prison after being sentenced for sexually abusing a child in Tasmania. He has previously spent time in prison in the NT for online child abuse-related charges.
A former senior Tasmanian firefighter who indecently assaulted a woman while he was working as a massage therapist has avoided a prison sentence.
It has been almost five years since Romany Wake's father murdered her mother, Rachel, on Christmas Day — and the 24-year-old is yet to be free from the legal ordeal.
Hobart's deputy lord mayor has admitted to and apologised for taking snacks and drinks from a council lounge over several years, but some of her fellow councillors won't let the matter die.
Administrators say the manganese smelter was insolvent before it was given a $20 million loan by the Tasmanian government.
A new internship program that's restoring Tasmania's endangered giant kelp forests is attracting young people from across the world.
A new live-in internship program on the Tasman Peninsula is working to repopulate the area's endangered giant kelp forests through underwater gardening.
