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More emergencies than heroin, more arrests than cocaine. Why haven't you heard of this drug?

Just 1 millilitre too much can trigger an overdose. We went to a music festival to learn how the "blowouts" hitting Australian hospitals start.
GHB soy sauce fish

Source: triple j HackTopic: Drugs

It's a Monday morning in an outback courthouse and 73 people are waiting outside

Australia's domestic violence scourge is dominating headlines around the country. But in country towns like this one, harrowing stories of abuse are just another Monday.
A composite image of a man in black and white in the foreground, wielding an axe. Behind is a smashed car, red dirt and a ho

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Domestic Violence

Why increasing satellite 'noise' poses a big problem for $3b outback radio telescope

By 2030, the world's largest radio telescope will be operational in remote Western Australia, but by then tens of thousands of satellites will be blanketing Earth's orbit with radio noise.
A graph showing the number of satellites from 1957-2022
Duration: 5 minutes

Source: ABC Midwest & WheatbeltTopic: Astronomy (Space)

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Reconciliation Week

More than a dozen locations bear this racist term and relic of colonial oppression

There is a small sign in Western Victoria — one of 15 locations around the country, from creeks and waterholes to bores and mountains — that is a racist slur in plain sight.
photo of woman standing with a serious look on her face

Source: ABC South West VicTopic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Since the Voice to Parliament's defeat, has the Great Australian Silence been extended into perpetuity?

In the first Reconciliation Week since the defeat of the Voice to Parliament, the inability of our national discourse to reflect on its significance is stunning.
A defaced electoral sign.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous Policy

For some, reconciliation can never be revived after the Voice loss

Ask an Aboriginal person how they define reconciliation and the answers are not flags, morning teas and welcomes-to-country. Their answers are land rights, greater autonomy and treaties, writes Bridget Brennan.
An illustration of an Indigenous flag at half mast on a gloomy evening

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Reconciliation

Plaque celebrating historic reconciliation an inspiration to spread more Noongar stories

Noongar man Troy Bennell knows the path to reconciliation is not smooth, but he has generations of footsteps to follow, with his Nana and Dad among those taking big strides in the regional WA town of Bunbury.
An indigenous man with a white beard and black cap kneels next to a plaque mounted on a stone in a park

Source: ABC South West WATopic: Indigenous Culture

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