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Amid the spinifex on a remote Western Australian island looms Chevron's troubled carbon capture facility. The role the technology might play in cutting greenhouse gas emissions is likely to get a fresh airing at global climate talks in Azerbaijan.

Central Australian community leaders are warning plans to permanently transfer children in custody from Alice Springs to a new Darwin youth prison will further traumatise them and lead to reoffending. 

Outback residents say they are frustrated with rising airfare prices and service bungles in locations with few other options.

Showcasing Australia's breathtaking landscapes may seem like a dream job, but there's a nationwide shortage of tour guides.

It's been one week since the 3G network was switched off in Western Australia and farmers in the middle of the grain harvest say connectivity has suffered.

Housing data shows 68 locations across the country have less a than 1 per cent rental vacancy rate.

A Victorian mine will start exporting a rare earths concentrate, which can be processed into commercial quantities of uranium, next year, sparking protests from farmers and an environmental group.

Wildlife rescuers are increasing measures to prevent the potential spread of the deadly bird flu strain H5N1, which is yet to arrive in Australia, as they respond to reports of thousands of dead shearwaters along the east coast.

The model turns empty buildings into homes for vulnerable women and a shelter organisation wants it expanded to give more people a safe place to sleep at night amid the housing crisis.

The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.