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Seaweed is used in a growing number of industries including agriculture, food and cosmetics. But in the state's south east... the science behind seaweed is also proving an inspiration for artists.

Geraldton's Malcolm Walalgie says he'd like to see better access in town for people with mobility issues.

Malcolm Walalgie, who lives with cerebral palsy, loves life in his WA town. But he says "people like me" can't enjoy every aspect of it — and that is something he wants changed.

An endurance ride that attracted the likes of cattleman RM Williams during the 1980s is back. While some things have changed, the Winton to Longreach Endurance Ride is still a show of strength, grit, and horsemanship.

More than simply being annoying, difficult people can impact your psychological safety, argues expert Rebecca Ray. But their power can be diminished.

The molecular biologist spent more than a decade researching a cure for motor neurone disease (MND) following the deaths of four members of his family.

A rag-tag team of engineers, commercial divers and rev-heads have driven 7km under water across the Darwin Harbour, in a stunt they claim has broken two world records.

Alan Carle was hunting otherworldly fruit with fluorescent tentacles and bubbly flesh that folks back home had never even heard about, much less tasted — and he was willing to risk his life to find it.

On South Australia's wild Limestone Coast seaweed is abundant. Due to the southern ocean's nutrient-rich Bonney Upwelling there are more types of seaweed here than elsewhere in the world, making it the ideal subject for a local art project.

Retired Perth dentist Richard Slattery gets a kick out of helping former addicts smile again, boost their confidence, and secure jobs — all through getting their teeth fixed.

Shirley Newton captures the beauty of the Wimmera-Mallee region with her hundreds of landscapes and still-life paintings.

For almost three decades, Broken Hill resident Don Mudie has been campaigning for a civic building to be renamed to honour Fred Jobson, 50 years after the artist died.

When Stephen Giles first played a game for the Caramut Football Club, Harold Holt was the prime minister, The Beatles were topping the Billboard charts and the nation had just converted to decimal currency. 

Migrations don't just happen, they're produced. It's a thread Alan Weedon followed as he retraced his mum Jesusita's story after her death.

Darwin naturists revealed all on the city's coldest day since 1942 in a celebration of body positivity and amateur golf.

This athlete wants to achieve a lot. But the 19-year-old says if she keeps working towards her goals, then "anything is possible."

Margaret River musician Jay Wood woke from a coma after a car crash left her in a near-helpless state of  'being like a baby", but that hasn't stopped her kickstarting her life from scratch.

Police say singer Sinéad O'Connor was found unresponsive at an address in London and pronounced dead at the scene.

Despite receiving a certificate of bravery at the time, George Manly Killen's life-saving actions have been left out of the history books, but his descendants want to change that with a plaque commemorating the historic deed.

Loved by many and a self-proclaimed "black sheep", Elaine McCormick has been supplying medicines and health advice to some of Queensland's most remote communities since she was 21 years old.

Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor, who became a superstar in her mid-20s, dies at 56.

An urgent nationwide search is underway for blood donors with a rare blood type to save an Adelaide mother waiting to undergo major surgery.

Ten-year-old cowboy Byron Kirk is taking to the world rodeo stage in August.

It has been a long, dirt road to success for 10-year-old cowboy Byron Kirk as he represents Australia at global rodeo championships in the US.

Two Queensland astronomers will be immortalised in space after the International Astronomical Union announced asteroids would be named after them.