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The key to the mystery may lie in your genes.

With more than two-thirds of Australians actively avoiding the news because it brings them down, Piia Wirsu explains why the ABC has created a new podcast with the sole purpose of making you feel good.

The Australian Federal Police has reasserted its ability to effectively investigate a former member of PwC, as the firm completes millions of dollars worth of contracts working alongside AFP staff.

Autism diagnoses are rising, but researchers say autistic girls and women are going under the radar, because diagnostic tools have been designed around how it manifests in males.

Sydney man Mohammad Hashemi's cousin Majid Kazemi was executed after a "forced confession and sham trial". He says if the Australian government is serious about stopping the Islamic Republic's human rights abuses, it will cut ties with Iran and list their military arm as a terrorist organisation.

More than 100 people were displaced on Thursday when fire ravaged two buildings in Surry Hills, including the heritage-listed former RC Henderson hat factory.

Reforms in the wake of the child sexual abuse royal commission made it easier for victims to seek compensation, but now a fierce new battleground is emerging as some organisations at the centre of the claims push to have cases thrown out altogether.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will extend his increasingly authoritarian 20-year rule after beating rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in the country's first-ever election run-off .

A magnitude-3.8 earthquake in the Melbourne suburb of Sunbury strikes at a depth of 3 kilometres on Sunday night, according to Geoscience Australia, with a leading seismologist saying it could be the city's largest in 100 years.