A 14 year old boy with autism survived alone for two freezing nights, lost in bush, at Mount Disappointment, north of Melbourne; and former NSW Police deputy commissioner Nick Kaldas tells PM he and probably many others took their eye off the issue of Indigenous deaths in custody.

A step forward in cancer treatment is coming in Australia, with construction of the southern hemisphere's first proton therapy centre underway.

A team of mental health nurses is set to join the NSW police force, after a trial in Sydney found their role as co-responders in emergencies led to reduced hospital presentations.

A former top Australian cop is urging police leaders to work harder on community engagement, and to do it when times are calm, before emotional issues like last weekend's Black Lives Matter protests flare.

As George Floyd is laid to rest, the black man's death in police hands keeps challenging the status quo, now the reality show 'COPS' is cancelled after more than three decades on air.

Indigenous historian Pat Ansell Dodds says a statue of John Stuart, one of the first Europeans to step foot in Central Australia, has no place in her beloved Alice Springs.

Just when it seemed Virgin Australia would live to fly another day, its survival is again now under a cloud.

14 year-old Will Callaghan has been found alive after spending two nights in sub-zero temperatures lost in dense bush north of Melbourne.

The AFL gets the nod to have 2,000 fans in the stands in Adelaide this weekend, though SA police say no to a second Black Lives Matter event; and the Treasurer's pledging to set what he calls ambitious targets for reducing the number of indigenous people in jail.

The COVID-19 recession is not, according to the Treasury Department's latest commentary, going to be the horror show previously feared.