Elsa Silberstein

Adoption journey takes NSW man across the world to reunite with his birth mother

Jason Levi and Andrew Goodman are from different states, but they have one very special thing in common — both are watching not one but two of their children representing Australia on the world stage.

Young men are bragging about flying without entertainment in an online display of toughness in the digital age.

Patrolling the streets at night in Alice Springs is hard work.

Inside a tiny community hall in Alice Springs, there's an appetite for frank and open talk between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal locals.

With a few contracts here and there but mainly run out of his own pocket, station man Damien Kunoth believes in tough love when teaching young Indigenous men how to work on the land in his All Rounder program.

Jodi Rodgers has made a name on screen as the empathetic counsellor for people with autism in "Love On The Spectrum". 

In the 1960s Alice Springs saw an economic lifeline when America promised to build a space base on the edge of town. But once its bizarre, oversized golf ball-like structures were built, mysterious things started happening.

The town has made news for crime and violence in recent times, but there is cause for celebration as Alice Springs hosts its “beautiful culture” at the annual Parrtjima festival.

It should be Islam’s “month of happiness” but as the Israel-Gaza war continues, Imam Ahmad Aboukhadra doesn’t feel the joy of Ramadan he once did.