May 28, 2013 It is the question that has kept philosophers and first-year arts students awake for centuries: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

May 28, 2013 Labor has cut more than $250 million from the cost of doing business for television networks since 2010, but Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the industry can't afford to lose the advertising dollar of betting companies - estimated at $40 million a year.

May 28, 2013 The government vastly underestimated the number of asylum seekers expected to arrive in Australia this financial year, with up to 25,000 now expected - almost five times more than initial forecasts.

May 28, 2013 The violence committed against women and girls by men is a global scourge.

May 28, 2013 When Bill and Melinda Gates put out the call for a suitable animal to test drugs for the debilitating river blindness disease, geneticist Warwick Grant knew he had just the thing.

May 28, 2013 Bookmakers such as Centrebet and Sportsbet would be banned from advertising on players' jumpers and on signage at venues, and having stadium naming rights, under reforms being given ''active consideration'' by the state government.

May 28, 2013 Cardinal George Pell has admitted the Catholic Church had put paedophile priests ''above the law'', covered up abuse and moved abusers.

May 28, 2013 A 13-year-old girl who was ejected from the MCG for racially abusing Adam Goodes had no idea ''ape'' was a racist slur when she yelled it at the Sydney Swans star during their demolition of Collingwood, according to Eddie McGuire.

May 27, 2013 AT TIMES docile, at others ferocious, the face and body of King Kong has been revealed to be a complex system of animatronics, pulleys and sheer human endurance.

May 27, 2013 More than 185,000 Australians will no longer be diagnosed with cannabis use disorders under changes to the controversial diagnostic manual used by psychiatrists, released this month.