Kathy McLeish

Wildlife workers and scientists are searching for a site to house a refuge they hope could help save the critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombat — and they say time is running out.

Fifty years on from the first battle to save the Great Barrier Reef, conservationists and scientists say the fight is far from over as they revisit the site where the battle for the reef began.

An elite para-triathlete is trying to change lives by getting more vision-impaired people out on the road and running.

It's a tap-and-go generation, where school tuckshops even accept plastic cards, fuelling financial illiteracy in kids, with some already clueless of the perils of credit card debt.

Four-time Olympian Shane Heal, a former basketball champion, is ordered to stand trial after allegedly fraudulently using $750,000 lent to him by Australian Boomers ex-coach Brett Brown.

The first northern hairy-nosed wombat joey to be born in captivity in five years emerges from its mother's pouch at a Queensland nature refuge, providing hope for the survival of the endangered species.

It could be a decade before the southern Great Barrier Reef recovers from the destruction caused by Cyclone Debbie, scientists say.

The technology used in the 'Droid Racing Challenge' event could be the future of driverless cars and their designers, the next generation of roboticists who will develop them.

One of the triplet baby bilbies born near Brisbane earlier this year is introduced to renowned UK primatologist Dr Jane Goodall, after whom it was named.

Scientists mapping sea floor find the weird, the wonderful and the waste