Crown's high profile board of directors include executive chairman John Alexander, former Howard government Minister Helen Coonan; former Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon and former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou.

A Liberal party veteran is calling on the Prime Minister to take the lead in driving cultural change after two former female staffers came forward with allegations of sexual assault.

Church leaders and anti-abortion MPs have united to delay the introduction of a bill to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales, the last state not to already have done so.

Should fitness supplements being shipped to Australia from overseas be scrutinised by Australia's drug regulator? And as the New South Wales Parliament is seeks to decriminalise abortion, we hear from a paramedic about the disturbing number of women still going through 'backyard' terminations.

The Australian sharemarket has hit a new high, surpassing the record set in November 2007 in the lead-up to the global financial crisis. But with the economy softening, how sustainable is the market recovery?

The Australian swimmer Shayna Jack and her coach deny that she deliberately took a banned substance in the lead-up to the FINA world championships, suggesting instead that supplements she ingested may have been contaminated.

New South Wales remains the only jurisdiction in Australia to still have pregnancy termination in its criminal code. Now the state's parliament is seeking to decriminalise abortion, and church groups are mobilising to oppose the move.

There's been a stark rise over the last decade in the number of Australia women who have depression and anxiety. The Melbourne Institute's long term study of Australian households has found that one in five young Australian women now have depression.

Police in California have confirmed that two of the three people killed in the latest mass shooting in the US were children. More than a dozen were injured when a man opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening US time.

An interstate trial is underway to see if a drug that is used to treat fleas and ticks in domestic dogs and cats will protect wombats from mange. The skin disease has led to the deaths of 95 per cent of wombats in the Narawntapu National Park.