At least 45 Australian Defence Force personnel died from suicide after training to deal with being captured, interrogated and tortured, an inquiry has been told. But the force is yet to investigate whether the training had been a direct trigger for…

A former soldier who was left wheelchair bound due to spinal and PTSD injuries has told an inquiry her desperate battle to get support from veteran's affairs was so traumatising it felt like she never left the battlefield.

Bank robber Russell Manser was destined for a life in prison before he discovered a new path by confronting his hidden trauma. Now he's working to help others seek justice for crimes long buried.Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 Russell was a…

In the end, it was the last way that killer, rapist, heroin dealer and prison snitch Neddy Smith expected to go — dead from natural causes in bed. The hardest of the hard men in Sydney’s once all-powerful criminal underworld, Smith died in Long Bay…

NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance has become the second high-profile Coalition candidate to quit the Eden-Monaro by-election and attack his own party in three days, citing white-anting from colleagues for his decision to withdraw. Liberal…

By Deborah Cornwall, Paul Chamberlin and Julie Lewis January 8, 2020 — 12.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. First published in the Sydney Morning Herald on January 9, 1990 RESCUERS PLUCK 46 FROM WATER Five children, aged from…

Demand for genital 'Barbie-plasty' surgery triples in a decadeDeborah Cornwall reported this story on Friday, October 10, 2014 12:46:00 It's known in the cosmetic industry as a Barbie-plasty because it resembles a Barbie doll.An extreme version of…

MARK COLVIN: The first day of the Senate committee inquiry into gun crime has opened up with the two polar opposites of the debate.Police were on one side, furious gun owners on the other.Police today warned that the continuing resistance of many gun…

Deborah Cornwall reported this story on Thursday, September 25, 2014CHRIS UHLMANN: Cyber experts have warned Islamic State has such a sophisticated social media machine there will also have to be a virtual war on terror.Cyber security analyst Tobias…

ABC, PM programMARK COLVIN: The disgraced former Sydney detective Roger Rogerson is in custody in Sydney tonight, charged with murder and supplying large commercial quantities of drugs. He's accused of murdering a student called Jamie Gao. Police…

The dubious honour that Australians hold as the world's most shameless TV internet pirates has reached a new level of sophistication, according to Australia's struggling independent TV cable providers.In the latest blow for broadcasters, global…

Australian Broadcasting CorporationBroadcast: 18/05/2011Reporter: Deborah CornwallWhy some fathers kill, the tragic murder suicide that's reignited the debate over domestic violence.LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Here is a story about the murder suicide…

It's known in the cosmetic industry as a Barbie-plasty because it resembles a Barbie doll.An extreme version of female genital surgery, or the labiaplasty, is now so popular that the number of procedures performed in Australia has more than tripled…

ELEANOR HALL: There's a gnawing anxiety among many pregnant women in China in the lead up to the Chinese New Year on February 19th.That's the day the Chinese zodiac will flip from the highly auspicious Year of the Horse to the deeply unfortunate Year…

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is scrambling to defuse a diplomatic crisis with China this week over her reported comments to Fairfax that she planned to take tougher stand on China than her Labor predecessors.The comments have…

Australian Broadcasting Corporation7.30 programBroadcast: 14/07/2010Reporter: Deborah CornwallAs the first wave of baby boomers enter official retirement age, the demand for anti-ageing medicines continues to grow. Yet despite promising everything…

The country's most powerful corruption watchdog, the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, has been ordered to shut down a public inquiry into high profile Crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen on the grounds her alleged conduct did…

Over the past decade most states in Australia have abolished or dramatically reformed the defence of provocation for murder.The reforms were aimed squarely at putting an end to men who kill their wives and girlfriends getting away with murder.New…

Federal budget cuts to higher education funding sparked student protests around the country this week.Vice chancellors are fretting too.The leaders of Australia's most elite universities have called on the Abbott Government to rethink the scope and…

MARK COLVIN: Aged care reforms pushed through in the dying days of the federal Labor government last year are due to come into force in July.The reforms will include tighter means testing of aged care services by assessing both income and assets -…