Ireland has just voted on whether to lift the country's controversial ban on abortion. But in Australia, whether or not abortion is legal depends on where you live —as does the cost and availability of the procedure. And that's because abortion laws are made by state and territory

Alarm bells rang following reports from the UK that digital clocks are replacing their analog counterparts in high school exam rooms. Is it true that children are increasingly incapable of reading analog clocks and, more importantly, does it matter? There is anecdotal evidence that analogue clocks are increasingly met with blank faces, with teachers chiming into the

Customers have slammed NAB on social media for a nationwide outage that is disrupting several of its services, including internet and mobile banking, ATMs and eftpos. NAB spokesman Chris Owens said the cause of the outage, which started about 7:50am, was not known. "We are focussed on fixing the issue as quickly as possible," Mr Owens said. At 11:30am, NAB tweeted

Related Story: William and Kate welcome Royal baby boy, fifth in line to the throne There are some stories that briefly stop the frenetic pace of a metro newsroom. Like the moment Kate and Wills emerged from St Mary's Hospital to present baby Prince Louis, for example. The impending nature of my own blessed event was also not going to be left unnoticed. "So Jess,

A Cambodian court has wrapped up its investigation into allegations an Australian filmmaker spied for a foreign entity, but is yet to decide whether the case will go to trial. Key points: Mr Ricketson's lawyer says a decision on whether the trial will go to court is expected in July Tony Abbott has called on the Australian Government to call for his release on

An extra 800,000 doses of the flu vaccine will be manufactured in response to increasing shortages across Australia. Key points: 800,000 new doses of flu vaccine ordered Shortages reported in NSW, Victoria and ACT A rush on vaccines in 2018 follows a horror flu season in 2017 The announcement comes as some doctors have had to turn patients away because supplies are

Don't think the royal commission has lacked impact this week, just because it has lacked shock: banks stealing money from dead clients, tailors helping to write $122 million in loans or financial planners stooging clients to enrich themselves. It sounds incredible, but the failed ice-cream and pie shops examined in this week's hearings will likely have a huge

First taste of winter weather for South West | Photos Diana Adams posted these photos of a fallen tree on Jindong Treeton Road with a heartfelt thank you to the farmer who came to the rescue. Diana Adams posted these photos of a fallen tree on Jindong Treeton Road with a heartfelt thank you to the farmer who came to the rescue. Freya Cheffers posted another photo of

Business owners, community group members, residents and ratepayers are being asked to brainstorm ideas for turning waste into a resource, as part of an upcoming waste feasibility study commissioned by the Shire of Augusta Margaret River. The study will be conducted over the next six months and will inform the Shires Waste Master Plan, which will stipulate the waste

As a young Austrian law student, Max Schrems took on Facebook and won, and seven years ago he was already raising the alarm over the flaw Cambridge Analytica allegedly exploited to obtain the data of millions of users for political purposes. So, as a new EU law — billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy regulations since the birth of the web — comes into force