Leah White is a Producer for the ABC's Impact team, which runs youth storytelling and leadership programs like Heywire, Trailblazers and Takeover.
Leah uses the skills she developed as a features and news reporter to help young people tell their stories across multiple platforms, including high-quality video features, digital stories and radio packages across a wide range of ABC programs.
For Logan and Jax, coming out as queer to supportive friends and family in their regional community changed everything. But not everyone is as lucky.
Without anywhere safe and secure to call home, Hailey felt like she didn't have a future. Her grades crashed and her mental health suffered. She's not alone.
Grame Hopf has dedicated more than half a century to fostering the most "challenging" cases, including a murderer, violent drug addicts and sex offenders.
When John Dickenson's unique design for a hang-glider first took flight over the Clarence River in 1963, it revolutionised aviation. Now, the 89-year-old's life and legacy is being commemorated.
A flood recovery group on the NSW Far North Coast looks to recruit more people on working holiday visas after a volunteer awakened members to an untapped resource.
When 27-year-old Jamikka Olive died suddenly five weeks after an alleged assault that left her with head injuries, her family linked it back to the incident, saying she did not receive appropriate health care.
A Byron Bay woman's $1.8m legal nightmare highlights how hackers use username and password combinations leaked online to access other accounts, a scam on the rise due to recent major data breaches, experts warn.
Two weeks after floodwaters tore through Rhonda's home her son died but, thanks to the kindness of strangers who rebuilt her flood-damaged property from the ground up, she's finally been able to return home.
The survivors of last year's devastating landslips in the northern New South Wales flood catastrophe say they are in no-man's-land while they wait for news of a land buyback.
Residents from communities along the Richmond River have rallied on a bridge where harrowing scenes played out during last year's catastrophe.
Residents from South Lismore were devastated by floods in 2022 but are struggling to access the scheme that offered them a chance of escape. Now they're being told the council wants to put a stop to residential development because of the flood risk.
Almost a century after the "greatest tightwire artist of all time" built his career on hiding his Indigenous heritage, Con Colleano's legacy is celebrated through a special tribute in his home town.
When the waters receded after the record-breaking flood in Lismore, three people were found dead inside homes — but only one of those houses is classified as a high-risk priority for government buybacks.
The parents of Simone Strobel, murdered in Lismore in 2005, hope a second inquest into her death will proceed now charges against her then-boyfriend have been withdrawn.
Simone Strobel's naked body was found in Lismore in 2005. Last year Tobias Moran was charged over her death, but prosecutors have withdrawn their case.
The former lover of Gold Coast teacher Marion Barter, missing for nearly 26 years, has given evidence at the inquest into her disappearance and suspected death.
The mystery surrounding the mother of two's disappearance a quarter of a century ago has captured the attention of millions through the popular podcast The Lady Vanishes.
Lisa Messenger sold her house and pushed her body to its limits trying to conceive. In one phone call, her best friend Sarah Megginson changed her life with a "phenomenal" gift.
The Finch family home in Kyogle was once an homage to life at sea — attracting tourists from far and wide. But when its founder Frank Finch passed away, no safe harbour could be found for his maritime memorabilia.
After months of assessments and reports, the NSW Reconstruction Authority says Thelma Murphy's home in a caravan park is not eligible for further disaster relief, leaving her to ask why her home is "deemed less worthy".
It is 50 years since the first Aquarius festival was held in Nimbin, but the counter-culture event has left a lasting legacy that is still being celebrated.
A judge was unable to find a Tweed woman genuinely remorseful for her role in detaining a Brisbane school teacher who died when hit by a truck soon after being released.
Five students from the small flood and fire-ravaged village of Rappville on the NSW far north coast have performed on stage at Bluesfest in the same line-up as world-famous musicians.
Five young students from a fire and flood-ravaged village take to the stage at Bluesfest, playing in the same line-up as some of the biggest names in music.
A landslip during 2022 flooding wrecked this road near Tyalgum in NSW, impacting businesses and adding hours to school drop offs. But a contract for repairs likened to building a four-storey structure underground has just been awarded.