Sarah Dingle

Two sets of documents provide insight into the extraordinary number of siblings donor-conceived people can have, and the strange and, at times, heartbreaking experience of not knowing who they are.

A 10.7-kilogram gold nugget is loaned to the Australian Museum for display after public servants discover it locked away in box they were using for impromptu cricket games.

Australia's corporatised, self-regulated fertility industry is increasingly selling snake oils, false hope and unnecessary treatments to women desperate to become mothers, experts say.

Former East German athletes subjected to a state-sponsored doping regime open up about the long-term effects of steroid abuse and warn Russian athletes, and any others around the world, that the price of doping is just too high.

Manuka honey made by bees foraging on Australian native plants has antibacterial properties at least as powerful as the famous New Zealand variety, according to new research, but New Zealand producers are trying to trademark the name.

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is six years in and Australian taxpayers have spent $8 billion on it so far — yet the internationally significant ecosystem at the end of the basin, the Coorong, is dying.

One person with disabilities is killed by their carer almost every three months in Australia, but these acts of domestic violence are often excused by the media and judiciary. The focus is too often on the killer. Here, we recognise the victims.

Australia is committed to buying 72 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, but officials from the US Government Accountability Office warn there may not be enough spare parts to go around, meaning the jets often can't leave the tarmac.

With a population greater than Canberra and Hobart combined, Kutupalong refugee camp is home to 600,000 people and more than half of them are children. They fight a daily battle for survival.

Flies may be irritating creatures, but they play an incredibly important role in both ecology and human society. We need flies to make chocolate, and we use fly larvae to treat infections and even solve crimes. Flies also played a role in the development of the Australian accent. Guest: Bryan Lessard, entomologist and author of Eyes on Flies. Bryan is appearing at this year’s Sydney Writers Festival.