March 20, 2013 Ecstasy users should not be charged by police, former federal health minister Neal Blewett says.

March 20, 2013 When someone tells Brenda Barber they feel suicidal, the first thing she does it let them know she cares.

March 20, 2013 Recent entrant in the prepaid mobile phone market Kogan Mobile, and its founder Ruslan Kogan, have been given a torrid time by customers and the telco industry this week.

March 20, 2013 Teenagers as young as 16 are using the underground drug sales website Silk Road, the Fairfax Media Global Drug Survey reveals.

March 20, 2013 Prime Minister Julia Gillard has branded Opposition Leader Tony Abbott a policy weakling and re-opened the misogyny debate as the leadership issue continued to boil and two senior cabinet ministers issued statements denying their loyalty to the Prime Minister had faltered.

March 20, 2013 Neither Stephen Conroy nor the company building the national broadband network will stand by their commitments that it will pass 286,000 premises by this June.

March 20, 2013 More than a third of families struggle to pay childcare fees despite increased federal government assistance over the past decade, a new report by public policy think tank The Australia Institute shows.

March 20, 2013 Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has caved in to industry pressure and will let telcos pay for their multibillion-dollar spectrum purchases in 2014, rather than after next month's auction.

March 20, 2013 It is used in 25 countries, has been translated into 17 languages and ranked by the United Nations as the world's leading parenting program.

March 20, 2013 'Fake Tahitian prince' who worked for Queensland Health, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail.