Eliza Buzacott-Speer

When it comes to harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables, built-up city streets may not immediately spring to mind, but a growing movement of urban foragers is out to prove otherwise.

The Alliance for Gambling Reform has slammed plans for a mega casino in Brisbane, saying the gambling industry is Australia’s “blind spot” and akin to the National Rifle Association in America.

From living in a Vietnamese orphanage to representing Australia at sport, blind songwriter David Truong’s road to success as a musician has taken a few detours.

Twenty years ago today, the world was introduced to Harry Potter and a book series destined to be the best-selling of all time. But what was it about the skinny, bespectacled 11-year-old with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead that so captured the imagination — and wallets — of children and adults around the world?

Bob Katter takes French fashion label Chanel to task for appropriating Aboriginal culture with its sale of an almost $2,000 boomerang, and renews his calls for the Australian Government to better protect Indigenous artists.

France becomes the latest country to introduce an opt-out approach to organ donation, but despite the calls of proponents, it seems unlikely Australia will follow suit.

Willow the koala joey strikes up an unlikely friendship with a butterfly during a photoshoot at Symbio Wildlife Park in New South Wales.

Matilda Wormwood is one of Roald Dahl’s most enduring characters — smart, strong, kind, and fiery, but, more than that, an ordinary little girl with a love of reading and learning.

From wondercrump to uckyslush and quogwinkle to grobblesquirt, the “gobblefunk” language that Roald Dahl used in his children’s books has become part of his legacy.

The authors of a fairytale book about a prince and a farm boy who meet and fall in love, which will be officially published after surpassing its crowdfunding goal, say they are "thrilled" the "long overdue" project has met its target.

A Christmas Day fishing trip turned into a perilous rescue mission for Evan Hanias, when he stumbled upon a dog struggling in the water — which just happened to belong to Australian cyclist Anna Meares.

Though its reputation as a “boys club” persists, street artists who happen to be female — many shun the “female artist” trope — are claiming their place on the streets. “On the street I didn’t have to ask permission to express myself; it was a way of taking back some of the power from an often rarified, elite and exclusive art world,” says one artist who goes by the name Baby Guerrilla.

Mars, Jupiter and Venus are coming together this week in the sky over Earth, in a “planetary dance” that promises to delight astronomers.