In the pits: mental health in Australia’s biggest mining town

Winner: WA Media Award 2022, Audio News

Grieving families in Kalgoorlie are frustrated at the state government’s lack of action to address the region's "woefully inadequate" mental health unit, despite some of the highest suicide rates in the country.

State with the most ‘restrictive anti-protest laws’ doubles down

When 60 neo-Nazis lined outside NSW parliament last week, the premier's response was swift and familiar — steadily tightening the state's protest laws in response to flashpoint events.

Sole survivor of regional NSW shooting speaks out

Nineteen-year-old Kaleb Macqueen was working on his car in the quiet NSW outback town of Lake Cargelligo last Thursday when violence erupted.

‘Dirty and gross’: the growing housing option operating in ‘the grey area’

A new face of Australia's housing crisis is emerging with companies making lucrative business out of university student tenants desperate to find somewhere to live.

Sydney play raises awareness of people suffering with dementia

Featuring actors living with dementia, To Whom I May Concern aims to redefine perceptions of the disease and promotes kindness towards sufferers.

Sitting on a gold mine: rattled residents offered a way out

Williamstown residents shaken by daily blasting are being offered a way out.

But they're yet to find out whether offers will be enough to replace their homes.

Mine plan shifted but Elders fear sacred sites will be lost

The company behind a new lithium mine in WA’s Goldfields says it’s reached a new benchmark for engagement with Traditional Owners but some are worried for the future of cultural heritage sites.

NG Lands on high alert as incentives roll out

Authorities have detected COVID in wastewater in a community just over the South Australian border from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands

That has leaders in Warburton hoping new incentives will be enough to prompt people to get protected.