Calla Wahlquist

After decades of avoiding a deadly and highly contagious strain of bird flu, Australia recorded its first case last month amid a devastating global outbreak. Matilda Boseley explains the risk to our health, wildlife and agricultural industries

Simon Abney-Hastings, the 15th Earl of Loudon, will be the bearer of the great golden spurs on 6 May. But that doesn’t cut much ice in the town where Nick Cave grew up

Cameron Carter, 19, who had never travelled on a plane before, was left unable to contact his family throughout ordeal

New guidelines requiring more space for laying hens and bathing water for ducks welcomed by animal rights groups, but slow pace of change criticised

Artwork by Adam Stone provoked a public backlash, culminating in its attempted decapitation and removal from a Fitzroy street

Lionel de Lange has been rescuing wildlife from unsafe conditions in Ukraine for years. But doing it in fear of Russian missiles presented altogether new challenges

‘Chris lived a life of poetry and music,’ band writes in a post announcing the singer and songwriter’s death

If successful, the push from a Dutch animal rights party could spell the end of the kangaroo export market

Experts launch Australian Alliance for Animals to push for independent national animal welfare commission

Russian forces in Ukraine have been shelling the Zaporizhzhia power plant, the largest nuclear plant of its kind in Europe