Two tradesmen who ran to help at the site of Tuesday's school bus crash in Melbourne tell of the horrific scenes they faced as they tried to rescue the children.

A Western Australian botanists says some native plants in the Fitzgerald River National Park are not rejuvenating from historical bushfires, and believes more research is required into the impact of all fires, including prescribed burns. 

North Melbourne will fancy its chances against GWS at Bellerive Oval, before Carlton and Essendon play a high-stakes encounter at the MCG. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

More veterans have died by suicide than in conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the veterans' affairs minister says he will take action where "successive governments" have failed.

Male contraceptives have been under development for at least the past 50 years, but they haven't come to market because of the success of the female pill and pessimism about men taking a pill.