Bodies turned into compost or flushed down the drain - eco-burials are on the rise
From dissolving the dead to turning our remains into mulch, how we bury our dead is changing.
Emily McPherson is a multi-award winning and nominated journalist.
In 2017, she was named the Mumbrella Journalist of the Year and also won the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Online News Breaking.
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From dissolving the dead to turning our remains into mulch, how we bury our dead is changing.
Sun damage isn't always visible to the naked eye and skin cancers may be lurking in skin with no freckles or blemishes, a new study by the University of Queensland has found.
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has stepped in to allow a family facing deportation to stay in the country.
Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a much-loved bird from Broome to be returned home after it accidentally stowed away on a cruise ship and ended up 1300km away in Bali.
When the massive Johnson & Johnson class action launched, mum-of-three Rebecca Oates felt nothing but relief. A decade on, she and others are still waiting on their payouts.
Nadia Mattiazzo remembers going to her regular cafe and not being able to buy her cup of coffee - it was the start of something massive.
The Federal Government has promised to provide an extra $50 million in funding towards research into long COVID.
Drivers in New South Wales have been warned to slow down in school zones today even though there will be almost no pupils in class.
Detectives are combing through CCTV footage in the hopes of identifying a mother who abandoned a newborn baby at a home in Sydney's west.
Crew members detected fumes on the flight deck shortly after take off.
A motorbike rider has been killed at a drag racing and burnout event in central Victoria.
Bullets have sprayed the front of an east Melbourne home in an early morning drive-by shooting, with residents inside saying they have no idea why they were targeted.
International authorities have seized 45kg of methamphetamine headed for Melbourne after a global investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Millions of Australians will be hit with a "student debt avalanche", a senator has warned, after a parliamentary inquiry report rejected a proposed law to freeze $74 billion in HECS and HELP loans.
A lot of Australian drivers might not be aware of the road rules when stopping to drop off children at school in a "no parking" zone - this wasn't the case for Jickey Mathew.
The "new car smell" that car salespeople love to wax lyrical about may actually be harmful for your health, a new study has shown.
The federal government will end its problematic use of external debt collectors to chase money owed to social welfare departments.
Australia's two biggest supermarkets have today launched competing strategies to win over customers feeling the pinch during the cost of living crisis.
A Sydney man who went to court to challenge a parking fine he received for breaking a little-known road rule has had a win, with the magistrate dismissing the charge.
Murder charges were laid against the 19-year-old and 46-year-old today, with the latter also facing an offence for concealing human remains.
Ten Australians have been arrested and charged as part of an international police sting on a website selling stolen account logins.
A grieving New South Wales family say they have been left distraught after a cemetery mix-up led to a father's grave being dug in the wrong location.
It has been almost two decades since Newcastle woman Roslyn Reay was found stabbed to death in her home.
Just days after Ankit Mehta was forced to vacate the rental unit he and his wife were living in, he was left fuming over an ad they spotted online.
Three million Australians who have a student loan are about to be saddled with a nasty bump in the amount they owe, thanks to soaring inflation.
Sydney woman Gai Maher was doing hardly anything at all when she had the surprise heart attack she credits with saving her life.
More than 122,000 Australians were homeless on Census night in 2021, new data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows.
If it were not for the gift she received for her 40th birthday, Ricki-lee Wynne may not be here today.
Australia's Red Cross says it is in desperate need of blood and plasma donors to boost its supplies - both now and over the Easter long weekend.
Colin spent months dealing with an Australia Post "nightmare" that began with a mystery signature and ended with him being forced to foot a hefty legal bill.
NSW premier Dominic Perrottet has launched the NSW Liberals' election campaign with new promises aimed at parents as Labor promised electricity bill relief.
"I would never have believed that this would happen to me at my age."
When her bank reached out to ask if all was going well with their home loan, Matilda replied with one valuable question.
A group of angry brides say they've been jilted at the altar - not by their partners, but by the company they hired to carry out their weddings.
The former government services minister says he takes responsibility for continuing to implement the federal government's illegal Robodebt scheme.
Renters are being forced to live in sweltering and unsafe conditions, with indoor temperatures exceeding 40C in homes across four states.
Almost 20,000 locals from her NSW community signed a petition calling for her to be allowed to stay - but her request for an intervention has been rejected.
Scammers are taking to social media sites such as Facebook to rip off house hunters desperate to snare a rental amid near record low vacancy rates.
NSW Northern Rivers local Kathryn McIntyre has a special pair of shoes. They might not look like much, just an ordinary pair of sneakers, but their significance can be explained with just two letters - "BF".
A Sydney man is crying foul after he was hit with more than $700 worth of parking fines for breaking an "unfair" road rule he claims should not even apply on cramped inner city streets.
A Sydney woman has delivered a warning to other drivers after she racked up almost $900 in parking fines due to a road rule she had never heard of.
Melbourne mum and hairdresser Gillian Jenkins was in the salon cutting a client's hair when she suddenly felt her hand go numb.
A New South Wales woman has told how she was tricked into believing she was in an online relationship with Australian actor Alex O'Loughlin as part of a catfishing scam.
New Zealand authorities have found 3.2 tonnes of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean, with the drugs believed to have been destined for the Australian market.
The family of a four-year-old Melbourne girl says her medical bills could soon exceed half a million dollars as she bravely battles her third type of cancer in three years.
Tanya Wheat says she's been pushed to the edge of despair after being told she will have to wait at least two years to get her son assessed for autism.
Once a woman hits 40 she automatically becomes a target, a leaked online guide written by a scammer reveals.
Maths lessons at school became the time when Mitch Smith would record all his transactions and get his taxes in order.
Julie Ann Stewart was close to tracking down her brother when she discovered he had been violently murdered.
A New South Wales Police crime squad being expanded in a bid to crack down on organised crime networks and bikie gangs in regional areas.