April 4, 2013 You may think you are an exciting individual, but chances are your consumer habits are making you ''astonishingly boring''.

April 4, 2013 The royal commission into child sex abuse is now operating. It expects more than 5000 people to share their experiences, has already spent more than $22 million, and is unlikely to complete its task by the end of 2015 as requested.

April 4, 2013 Nothing is lost to history at David Jones. In the bowels of its Silverwater warehouse, heavy padlocks guard rooms where boxes and filing cabinets brim with artefacts. Dubbed ''Barbara's Wonderland'', the storage facility fell under the authority of a slight, bespectacled librarian by the name of Barbara Horton, who was responsible for documenting the department store's every move in her 35-year role as the DJs archivist.

April 4, 2013 Countries such as Australia who are planning to buy the troubled Joint Strike Fighter plane are entitled to rethink their purchase, the manufacturer says.

April 3, 2013 There are fears a gastroenteritis outbreak caused by contaminated oysters in Tasmania over the Easter weekend has spread interstate.

April 3, 2013 The fierce summer endured by much of Australia was directly influenced by human-induced global warming, a new report by the Climate Commission says.

April 3, 2013 Dozens of doctors penalised for allegedly rorting Medicare may seek compensation following a Federal Court ruling that the appointments of certain members of the disciplinary panel they faced were invalid.

April 3, 2013 Seven children sit in rapt attention in Dale Brittle's class at Christmas Island. But these kids - aged between five and seven - aren't like the others at the island's school. When they go home to their families, they'll return to the fences of their secure detention facilities.

April 3, 2013 Australia's enthusiastic approach to extending the life of pharmaceutical patents has cost the economy 'billions of dollars', an independent review has found.

April 3, 2013 In the end it seems the inevitable has caught up with Nathan Tinkler.