Rhiannon Stevens is a features journalist with ABC News.
Until the flowers wilt and the candles melt, a space created by artist Clare James gives people somewhere to lay down their grief.
Communities around Australia have fought to keep the fast-food giant out of their towns for various reasons. What happens when they lose?
This might be a (raspberry) pie in the sky plan, but it's part of a global movement searching for answers to digital sovereignty and tech resilience.
The Black Summer bushfires cut people off from warnings, rescue and each other when mobile phones failed. How can we stay safe when telecommunications go dark?
For two decades, police pursued a central theory about who killed German backpacker Simone Strobel. After their suspect was finally charged with murder, that theory began to crumble.
As we build more homes to tackle the housing crisis some worry trees will become collateral damage. But as our climate changes, isn't now the time we need trees most?
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
Debi Marshall can't stop investigating true crime, despite her family begging her to stop and the toll she says it's taken on her life.
Cory Doctorow says the AI revolution promised by tech bros isn't inevitable but the bursting of an AI bubble is. He wants to remind us another future is possible.
There are very few places on Earth that remain untouched and unseen by humans. For true explorers, the final frontier is not a distant speck in the sky, it is the underground realm beneath our feet.
Mike Connor visited the same park for 40 years and wrote down what he saw. He didn't realise he was incidentally chronicling a changing environment and contributing to science.
When the first major relationship of Jack McLennan's life implodes, he does what plenty of young men do: meets a mate for a quiet beer. But by morning, Jack's disappeared, leaving behind a series of mysterious clues and a devastated family.
The first time Renae Powell waved her eldest child through the primary school gates she felt something was missing: play time.
Spending big money to do nothing in the dark is on the rise. Scientist Kiana Aran chronicled what happened to her when she tried it.
Climate change, the cost-of-living crisis and healthy lifestyle goals should make active transport like cycling a no-brainer. So why does Australia struggle to build a bike culture?
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
What if the sudden improvement in Iain's life, and the extra $600 a month in his pocket, can be traced back to a single policy decision made by a federal minister in the 1980s?
In a quest for an affordable mortgage in our location of choice, my family decide to rent an apartment as a trial. Will high-rise living be a realistic alternative to a house as a place to bring up our child?
In a quest for an affordable mortgage in our location of choice, my partner and I decide to rent an apartment with our son as a trial, to find out if it is a realistic alternative to a house.
Could there be, as Paul Keating once said "more to life than the quarter acre block"?
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From 418 arrests in 1977 to fresh clashes in Sydney: The fragility of Australians' right to protest and what makes a reasonable police response is under scrutiny
Many experts are predicting life in Cuba is about to get even harder.
Each month, strangers and friends meet to share dishes from a chosen cookbook. But Cookbook Club Naarm is more than a foodie feast, it's a reminder of food's power to bring us together.
Will new technology lead to streamlined service and stress-free travel, or will it fundamentally change tourism and tourist destinations?
The 2007 Brazilian heist was not the last time a nimble thief made off with a Picasso. And as many Melburnians know, it certainly wasn't the first.
As questions around horse welfare grow, can equestrian sport's Olympic dream survive?
On November 26, 1948, the first Polaroid camera was released commercially, changing photography forever.
As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded phone can restore patience and connection.