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5 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Hair |Alex Palmer |Mark Doman
New satellite imagery shows US stealth bombers appear to have targeted a vulnerable spot in one of Iran's key nuclear sites, buried deep in a mountain. Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, located near the city of Qom, is a once-secret facility that has recently been enriching uranium to levels high above the minimum needed for civilian use. "If your goal is to eliminate [Iran's] nuclear program, you have to eliminate Fordow," one expert told ABC NEWS Verify.
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6 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Hair |Alex Palmer |Mark Doman |Dan Harrison
US President Donald Trump has announced American bombers have attacked Iran's heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility, as well as two other nuclear sites in Iran. "The US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan," he said in a televised address from the White House. "I can report to the world the strikes were a spectacular military success.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Hair |Alex Palmer |Mark Doman
Deep below a mountain in Iran sits a once-secret uranium enrichment facility which now threatens to drag the United States into the Israel-Iran conflict. There is one bomb – a so-called "bunker-buster" – which may be able to reach and destroy the facility. But there is only one country in the world which could drop it. This is the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, located near the city of Qom. Aerial imagery shows the facility nestled in a mountain.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Matt Martino |Katia Shatoba |Thomas Brettell |Alex Palmer
At federal elections, the only person who controls your preferences is you. But political parties will still try to influence how you number the boxes that decide who gets your vote if first pick doesn't get enough support. They do that through how-to-vote cards. Handed out at polling booths and available online, most of the major players at this election are asking voters to direct their preferences a certain way.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Inga Ting |Alex Palmer
Skyrocketing rents have outpaced income growth in every regional area in Australia and all but one capital city, exclusive figures have revealed. In Perth, Australia's least affordable city for renters, median rent has risen 5.2 times faster than income since the start of the pandemic, soaring by 79 per cent between 2020 and 2024, compared to a 15 per cent rise in average rental household income.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Inga Ting |Katia Shatoba |Alex Palmer |Thomas Brettell
This September, Melanie Misuraca and her daughters will swallow their third rent hike in as many years. It will push their rent up to 59 per cent of their household income before tax. The family were forced to move in 2022, after the COVID public health emergency ended. They managed to stay on Queensland's Gold Coast but now pay nearly double for a smaller home — and the rent just keeps creeping up. "I've already signed the lease … it will be going up to $650 a week," says the single mum.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Inga Ting |Katia Shatoba |Alex Palmer |Thomas Brettell
This is Australia’s worst capital city for renters. At the start of the pandemic, just 2 per cent of postcodes were out of reach for the average income rental household. (A postcode is considered out of reach when the median rent reaches 30 per cent or more of household income before tax.)Four years later, close to 70 per cent of postcodes are beyond reach, according to the latest data. That's the situation in Perth. But it’s a similar story across the country.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Doman |Jack Fisher |Alex Palmer |Thomas Brettell |Margaret Burin
Sand dunes are often the first line of defence when powerful storms — like the one Cyclone Alfred delivered — batter our coastline. Years of built-up sand provide a natural buffer between coastal infrastructure and the elements. That natural defensive line, stretching from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland to Coffs Harbour in NSW, has been on show over the past week. Massive swell whipped up by the cyclone pummelled the coastline, shifting millions of cubic metres of sand back out into the ocean.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Doman |Katia Shatoba |Alex Palmer |Thomas Brettell
Satellite images show Cyclone Alfred's steady advance towards the south-eastern Queensland and northern NSW coastlines. The images in the animation below were captured by the Japanese weather satellite, Himawari-9. The sequence begins on Saturday, March 1 at 10am (AEST). The most recent image is from: 14:00 AEST on Friday, March 7. We will continue to update the images over the coming days. Have you been affected by Cyclone Alfred? We want to hear your story.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Mark Doman |Katia Shatoba |Alex Palmer
Weather satellites have captured the formation and movements of Tropical Cyclone Alfred as it approaches Queensland's south eastern coastline. The geostationary weather satellite Himawari-9 is centred on Japan but it also captures Australia and its surrounding oceans making it a valuable service for monitoring weather patterns. It captures an image every 10 minutes and ABC News has stitched together hundreds of these captures from the last few days to track the movements of the weather system.
