Right now, in Australia, you can get the potent effects of ecstasy, cocaine or cannabis straight over the counter and completely legally.

In Papua New Guinea there are still deadly reminders of WWII - bombs, mines and mortars left behind by the Japanese occupation.

Liam Bartlett found this Oscar-winning screen queen is not one for airs and graces.

What would drive a man to make a decision that would cripple the nation? We asked him.

It's a sport that defies belief, and the laws of gravity. A young man, clinging to the side of a sheer rock face, 1000m up - with nothing to catch his fall.

Remember the movie Jurassic Park where scientists created an island zoo and filled it with cloned dinosaurs?

Move over Rupert Murdoch, there's a new Aussie on the broadcast block.

Scientists are now realising that animals are a whole lot smarter than we previously had imagined.

We've learned that the world still holds some remarkable surprises. Like the ocean nomads called the Bajau Laut.

Kim Noble is just one person, but she has as many as one hundred separate characters populating her mind.

In a lifetime of reporting, no one has ever asked Charles Wooley to go out and find 'happiness'.

Two of the women in Robert Geeves' life met tragic and suspicious ends - one shot dead, the other missing without trace. Now, there is a third woman.

Here's an Aussie bragging right you may not be using. We invented sex!

Trapped in a narrow gorge, a raging fire bearing down and no escape in any direction. What would you do?

No cage. No spear gun. Just a man, his camera, and a whole lot of trust.