Author Sonya Hartnett and Jon Faine spoke with Jill Jolliffe, author of the book 'Balibo', and Robert Connolly, whose film version of the story opens the Melbourne International Film Festival....

Melbourne's Indian community react to toddler's death....

No witnesses, suspects or leads in Indian toddler death...

Aquinas College in Ringwood, in Melbourne's east, is mourning the death of 12-year-old Kyle Vassil, who drowned at an orientation camp....

Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts Peter Garrett says he is not to blame for the botched home insulation scheme which has been linked to the deaths of four people. ...

The family of Iain Archie MacAskill are one step closer to returning the poet's remains from Australia to his beloved Beneray, Scotland....

A man has died and a woman has been seriously injured in a car collision on Kuringa Drive in the north Canberra suburb of Spence....

Tensions are high in Queensland's Aboriginal community following an emotional protest over the death in custody of a teenager in Brisbane. Also the inquest into another death in custody in Palm Island in 2004 is continuing. Indigenous leaders say the cases highlight the need for further reform ...

Qld Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley is giving evidence to the re-opened inquest over a Palm Island watch-house death....

American writer David Vann's novella <em>Legend of a Suicide</em> won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction when it was first published a few years ago. That novella and four other short stories have been collected in a new book of the same name. The stories in <em>Legend of a Suicide</em> are ...