South Australia's University of Adelaide is researching the social structure of Eyre Peninsula communities to determine potential impacts from oil and gas exploration in the Great Australian Bight. It is part of a four-year, $20 million collaborative science program between oil giant BP, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the South Australian Research...

Queensland Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk claims there are almost 31,000 more Queenslanders without a job since March 2012 and blames the Liberal government for the rise.

If you experienced heart palpitations or shortness of breath, would you see your doctor? Despite the awareness campaigns for breast cancer and stroke, heart disease is still the biggest cause of death. Conditions like atrial fibrillation are on the rise, and set to increase exponentially in the next 20 years. A new study asks the...

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman claims Queensland crime rates have "gone down very very significantly" because of Liberal policy.

New research shows an increasing level of discontent among western democracies, with a diminishing number of people in Australia who believe voting makes a difference. Matt O'Neil and Tim Roxburgh investigate what this growing disenchantment will mean for world politics in 2015. • Despite huge differences between countries, surveys of political attitudes around the western...