Emily Bissland

Residents say a "corrosive" trend to sell fertile farmland to make way for foreign-owned wood plantations is ruining communities and threatening Australia's food security. 

There is a small sign in Western Victoria — one of 15 locations around the country, from creeks and waterholes to bores and mountains — that is a racist slur in plain sight.

How country-town carpenter and musician Billy Barker's "simple gesture" led to a group of Timorese meat workers performing at one of Australia's biggest music festivals just 12 months later.

The Baker family’s passion for kites — and their son’s talent for making them — gives them access to a global community with a shared interest that transcends culture and language barriers.

An expert says current battery developments only just scratch the surface of Victoria's energy storage needs, as Pacific Green Australia announces plans to construct a 30-hectare grid-scale battery park in Portland.

Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi were renowned in the 16th-century art world, but their achievements were written out of history. A new exhibition lifts the curtain on their extraordinary works.

A photographic exhibition asks, “Who would you be, if you could be anyone? And how do you wish the world would see you?” The result is a series of empowering portraits.

It’s not a typical lesson, but the ocean is teaching these year 10 students how to look after each other in the surf.

Here’s how to save money at the checkout with a trolley of healthy food — and you can roll right past that health food aisle.

“This is what every art historian dreams of finding in their lifetime and they never do. Here he is.” How art valuer Elizabeth Arthur discovered a brilliant, obsessive mind.