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As consumption of traditional news continues to fall, audiences are turning to social media personalities and influencers for their information. These figures are increasingly shaping public debates.

AWS looks to expand data center infrastructure and clean energy network in Australia with AU$20 billion investment.

Despite concerns about influencers spreading misinformation, social media has overtaken online news platforms as Australians' preferred source of news.

About one quarter of Australian school students are learning English as an additional language or dialect.

In Australia, an estimated one in ten men experience mental health issues such as anxiety and depression before and after their child is born (the perinatal period).

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.

Boronias, known for their showy flowers and strong scent, are a quintessential part of the Australian bush. They led Traditional Owners to the best water sources and inspired Australian children’s author and illustrator May Gibbs to pen one of her earliest books, Boronia Babies.

Imagine a lush forest with tree-ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds. Conifers tower overhead, bearing triangular leaves almost sharp enough to pierce skin. Flowering plants are both small and rare.

Environmental projects will be analysed and rated in Australia in a move experts say could prevent greenwashing and encourage international investments.

Anthony Albanese will no longer meet with Donald Trump after the US president revealed he will leave the G7 summit before their highly anticipated encounter.

Iranians in Australia say there is growing community fear over the safety of family members caught up in escalating violence in the Middle East.