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Every year more than 35,000 Australians go missing. Dementia sufferers are one of the most likely groups of people to vanish from their normal lives.

WHAT have we become? Where even to begin?

A mother-of-five who was taunted on a beach for having stretch marks has received overwhelming support after she penned an open letter to the group that publicly humiliated her.

The heartless decision of an Australian couple to abandon their newborn surrogate baby in Thailand is sending shock waves across the country – and has triggered a flood of donations to help the little boy survive.

Richard Lee Norris represents both the face of tragedy and triumph and features on the cover of America's GQ magazine.

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australia remains undeterred by shelling near the MH17 crash site despite investigators being forced back a second time.

Editor-in-chief of The Australian Women's Weekly, Helen McCabe became only the fourth person to win the prestigious St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Media yesterday.

Andrej Pejic, the Australian supermodel who famously blurs the boundaries between men and women as an androgynous male model, now goes by the name Andreja, having undergone sex reassignment surgery earlier this year.

Australia's female athletes have won three gold medals and smashed what was thought to be an untouchable world record on the first day of competition at the Commonwealth Games.

The parents of three Perth children who were killed with their grandfather in the MH17 tragedy in Ukraine have released a statement detailing the "intense and relentless" pain that consumes them.