Finbar O'Mallon

Finbar O'Mallon is a reporter for The Australian Financial Review.

A 50 per cent boost in the academic results of poorer and Aboriginal students could see a $200 billion economic payoff, report finds.

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Industry Super Australia chief executive Bernie Dean said a third of Australians were seeing super recorded on their pay slips but not getting it.

A skier has lived most people's worst nightmare at Thredbo after plummeting to the ground when the chairlift they were on became dislodged.

Nurses had to use a vacuum cleaner to capture the wasps covering Evie Clark, including the ones stuck in her hair.

Sarah Fowler's chronic pain put her in a wheelchair for parts of her life; now 20, she's living a fuller life than ever.

The parks directorate is looking to build a $110,000 off-grid power supply for its remote homesteads.

Scientists from the Australian National University have found tiny populations of two birds that may be soon go extinct.

Separately, development director David Maxwell confirmed NSW-side residents would pay NSW stamp duty as they paid ACT-level rates.

It comes on the back of what was set to be a drier-than-usual March before Friday night's downpour.

Labor MLA Michael Pettersson will introduce a motion to the Assembly on Wednesday for the bush capital to develop an esports strategy.

Parkwood, the name of the NSW side of Ginninderry, will get its own school, with residents expected to pay ACT-level rates.