Death and Dying

Premier Steven Miles has flagged raising the prospect of opening children's court to the media with the Attorney-General after access was denied in relation to the alleged murder of Vyleen White.

It's been five years since an inquest laid bare the chaotic lives of children, including a 10-year-old girl, who took their own lives in outback Australia. Are kids any safer now? 

Kerang in Victoria is no stranger to floods, but at the start of this year a rain event in the town inundated the local cemetery and continues to put burials on hold.

Four people were killed in a single-vehicle crash on a notorious stretch of unsealed road on the Roper Highway.

Five teenagers have been charged as police continue to investigate the stabbing death of a 70-year-old grandmother at an Ipswich shopping centre.

Revered Indigenous advocate Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue has died at the age of 91.

Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll laying flowers at a Redbank shopping centre following the tragic stabbing death of a grandmother.

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, highlights the greatest accomplishments of Indigenous trail-blazer Lowitja O'Donogue including Australian of the Year in 1984 and the only female chair of ATSIC.

An extensive search is underway after a man was swept from rocks while fishing in the Port Stephens area. It comes after a man was found dead on rocks in a separate incident on the NSW North Coast.

At least 46 people have been killed by wildfires in Chile with the death toll expected to rise.

The fiancée of a man who died when his light plane crashed in the Victorian High Country believes he was let down by the system and was not given adequate training to be a safe and competent pilot.

Victoria's worst drowning incident in almost 20 years has prompted "serious questions" about the effectiveness of some of Australia's water safety strategies.

John Pat's death at just 16 inside an outback police lock-up sparked national outrage and a royal commission. Forty years later, what is his legacy in his hometown?

Catherina van der Linden died on Australia Day at Southern Cross Care's West Beach Residential Care home surrounded by her family. Her body will be donated to the University of Adelaide's Body Donation Program.

Lawyers for Kambah man Grant Oldfield tell the ACT Supreme Court their client, who was accused of bashing Douglas Creek to death, died in December.

A coronial inquest into the death of a recreational pilot in the Victorian high country has heard weather conditions, mechanical concerns and inexperience could have contributed to the fatal crash.

Police say the man had been jumping with a group of men from the 30-metre-high falls and failed to resurface. It is the second death at a swimming hole in the region this month.

A judge has found one of Japan's most deadly mass murders to be mentally fit to be criminally liable for an arson attack where dozens of people were killed at an anime studio.

The governor of Alabama Kay Ivey says prison officials have put to death Kenneth Smith, completing the first execution using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas.

A Cairns patient has died from the bacterial disease melioidosis, with health authorities further south warning those on cyclone clean-up to take precautions against contracting the infection.

Born Melanie Safka, the folk singer performed to hundreds of thousands of people at the Woodstock music festival in the late 1960s.

Seven hundred people attended the funeral and hundreds more watched online as the Box Hill GP was laid to rest after his alleged murder earlier this month.

Rogerson was in prison serving a life sentence for murder and died under police guard at Prince of Wales hospital in Sydney.

The death of a two-month-old baby in regional Victoria on Saturday is not being treated as suspicious, Victorian police say. 

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a baby in Ballarat overnight as a neighbour who tried to resuscitate the boy says she ran to help after hearing screams.