Alex Barwick

As police increase patrols in areas where assaults have occurred, some women are opting to carry personal alarms or exercise without headphones.

During the 1972 election campaign, Gough Whitlam promised to lift the lid on Pine Gap and share its secrets. Ultimately, as prime minister, he was left out of the loop.  

In the 1980s there was a series of huge protests at the secretive US military base Pine Gap. In one David and Goliath tale, a bloke called Bob Boughton and his mates would face off against one of the world's largest military planes … with their bikes.

She once organised holidays from inside the secretive Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs, but 30 years later Helen Kilgariff knows one thing — she probably wouldn’t be allowed to do it again.

Journalist Alex Barwick has lived in Alice Springs for 16 years but she's only recently dared to investigate Pine Gap, the ultra-secretive US spy base in her own backyard. 

It will be just the third year in more than six decades the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, which draws tourists from around the country, has not gone ahead.

As Bron stood atop a ridge, trying to find her way back to the Larapinta Trail, all she could think about was the Victorian hiker whose body was retrieved from the same track only a month before.

One in four women will experience pain during sex that can affect their self-worth and their relationships. These people say pelvic floor specialists can improve women's lives.

In 1953, in the APY lands of South Australia, two atomic weapons were exploded in the desert at a place called Emu Field. A young boy named Yami Lester remembers the ground shaking and a black mist coming over his family's camp. Yami passed away in 2017, but his daughter Karina Lester continues to speak up nationally and internationally about the impacts of nuclear testing in Australia.

Pro-Palestinian protesters in outback Australia call the federal government's announcement "performative" and say they have concerns Israel could use intelligence gathered on Australian soil in its attacks on Gaza.