Australia's government defended its record on curbing antisemitism on Saturday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused it of anti-Israel policies, following an arson
December 07, 2024
Three climbers from the United States and Canada who went missing on New Zealand's highest mountain last week are believed to have died, police said on Friday.
December 06, 2024Australian police said on Friday they were looking for two people suspected of deliberately starting a fire at a Melbourne synagogue that injured one and caused
December 06, 202416-year-old sensation Gout Gout runs fourth-fastest under-18 100m of all time
December 06, 2024
Three climbers from the US and Canada are believed to have died in a fall on New Zealand’s highest peak
December 06, 2024
Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum collections since the 19th century have been handed back at a ceremony that a community representative described as a sad but “very joyful” moment
December 05, 2024
Australia synagogue fire condemned as clear act of antisemitism as police search for suspects
December 06, 2024
Australia's central bank will hold interest rates steady on Tuesday as a resilient labour market keeps inflation elevated, according to economists
December 06, 2024
Australia's agency for monitoring financial crimes said on Friday it had established an internal cryptocurrency task force to identify and take action against crypto ATM providers that do
December 05, 2024
More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents have committed to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more
September 19, 2023
The National Hockey League is trying to build on its first foray into the Southern Hemisphere — two preseason games between the Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyote this weekend — by expanding its street hockey program to Australia
September 21, 2023
Australia's Macquarie Group said late on Thursday that a fund managed by its asset management arm would invest in U.S.-based telecom services provider SwyftFiber.
October 26, 2023
One in five priority counter-terrorism cases investigated by Australia involved youth, the country's spy chief said on Friday, as the "Five Eyes" intelligence
December 05, 2024Australia's Woodside Energy Group said on Thursday it has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with U.S. engineering firm Bechtel to develop the
December 05, 2024
It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history
December 04, 2024
A Japanese court sentenced an Australian woman who says she was tricked amphetamines into the country to six years in prison, despite accepting her testimony that she was the victim of an online romance scam
December 04, 2024
Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto on Wednesday lifted its capital expenditure guidance for 2025 and forecast higher copper production, mostly on an anticipated 50% output surge
December 04, 2024
Max Verstappen was an early retirement from the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, with the Red Bull driver sustaining a fiery engine failure on the fourth lap of the race, experiencing his first race retirement since Albert Park in 2022
March 24, 2024
A World Trade Organization panel on Tuesday recommended that Australia bring its measures to conform with its obligations under the GATT 1996 and the Anti-Dumping Agreement in a
March 26, 2024Shares of Australia's Lynas Rare Earths climbed to a near three-week high on Wednesday, a day after China banned exports of some critical mineral to the United States.
December 04, 2024
The Pacific island nation of Nauru is in talks with Australia on a migration and economic deal, a Nauru official said on Wednesday, as the world's third-smallest
December 04, 2024Australian betting and gambling firm Tabcorp Holdings has laid off 10% of its workforce, around 200 roles, to cut down on costs and simplify its business, the Australian Financial Review
December 04, 2024A near 10% stake in Auckland International Airport worth NZ$1.32 billion ($773.12 million) was being sold on Wednesday, as the city's council moved to
December 03, 2024China has won a nearly three-year-long dispute with Australia at the World Trade Organization over tariffs on steel products that began during a low point of bilateral relations between the countries
March 27, 2024
China says it will lift tariffs placed on Australian wine over three years ago, in a sign of improving ties between the two countries
March 28, 2024
Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics
March 28, 2024
A failed Australian taxi-industry disruptor has told a court that Uber began illegally operating its ridesharing service in Australia a decade ago to gain an unfair advantage over competitors
April 02, 2024
A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport
April 05, 2024
The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm
April 06, 2024
President Joe Biden says he's considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing American classified documents
April 10, 2024
Officials have confirmed the identities of an Australian bomber and the remains of two air crew members more than 80 years after they crashed in flames off the coast of Papua New Guinea
April 11, 2024
An Australian court has rejected a case brought by five women seeking compensation from Qatar Airways over invasive gynecological examinations conducted on passengers at Doha’s airport in 2020
April 11, 2024
Australia's competition watchdog said there was a need to revisit efforts to ensure greater choice for internet users, citing Google's dominant search engine market share and its
December 04, 2024
Australian prosecutors have discontinued mining magnate Andrew Forrest's criminal prosecution of Meta over what he said were thousands of scam cryptocurrency
April 26, 2024
Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed and that the police shot a person at a Sydney shopping center
April 13, 2024
Police have identified the assailant who stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he was fatally shot by a police officer
April 13, 2024
A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running “towards danger” to confront the attacker who stabbed and killed six people at a suburban Sydney shopping center
April 14, 2024
Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men
April 15, 2024
The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women
April 15, 2024
Police say a man has been arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney
April 15, 2024
A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church service in a second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days
April 16, 2024
Voting has begun across the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific nation’s first general election since the government switched diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to Beijing and struck a secret security pact that has raised fears of the Chinese navy gaining a foothold in the region
April 17, 2024
A Sydney shopping mall has opened to the public for the first time since the mass stabbing in which six people died
April 18, 2024
A Muslim community leader says a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service might have “anger management and behavioral issues” and a “short fuse” but had shown no signs of being radicalized on Thursday, after authorities declared the stabbing a terrorist attack
April 18, 2024
Shoppers and workers have returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death in an attack that police believe targeted women
April 19, 2024
Viewers don't have to be young or a parent to appreciate the Australian kids' television program “Bluey,” as this week’s release of a special episode proved
April 19, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as "extraordinary" on Monday a decision by social media platform X to challenge in court a cyber regulators' order
May 07, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticized social media platform X for refusing to remove graphic posts about a knife attack on a bishop and priest in a Sydney church last week
April 22, 2024
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has accused Australia of censorship after an Australian judge ruled that his social media platform X must block users worldwide from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church
April 23, 2024
A top U.S. arms control official said on Tuesday the country was likely, although not guaranteed, to meet a new deadline to finalise trade exemptions for the AUKUS
May 07, 2024
Australia's economy in the third quarter grew at the slowest annual pace since the pandemic, disappointing hopes for a rebound as government spending did all of the
December 04, 2024
A legendary rugby player has cited the fear and anxiety that has invaded his life among the reasons for urging the Australian government to fund support services and education about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
April 23, 2024
Australian police say they have arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids around Sydney to protect the community from a potential attack
April 24, 2024
The NFL will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy in rugby-mad Australia to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region into college and pro prospects
April 25, 2024
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described domestic violence as a national crisis after thousands rallied around the country against violence toward women
April 28, 2024
Blackstone-owned Crown Resorts will cut up to 1,000 roles in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, it said on Monday, as weak economic conditions continue to impact its business and as it struggles
May 14, 2024
Australia's food safety agency is collecting information on the possible contamination of spice mixes sold by Indian companies MDH and
May 15, 2024
Australian retailer Woolworths said on Wednesday that it would sell a 5% stake worth A$468 million ($302.84 million) in Endeavour Group, almost three years after
May 15, 2024
Australian No.2 grocery chain Coles said on Tuesday it was asking suppliers to ship more product after a slowdown in inflation encouraged shoppers to buy
April 29, 2024Star Entertainment said on Monday Chairman David Foster has stepped down just more than a year into the role, adding to an exodus of senior management at the beleaguered Australian casino
May 14, 2024
Kiribati has notified an Australian-born judge removed from High Court by parliament this week that he will be deported after 21 days, in a case a U.N. special
April 27, 2024Australian police said on Thursday they charged five teenagers
May 13, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed as a hero Pakistani security guard Faraz Tahir, killed in Sydney while trying to stop a mass stabbing attack, in
April 26, 2024Kiribati's parliament has voted to remove Australian-born High Court Judge David Lambourne, who said on Friday the move was politically motivated and an attack on
April 26, 2024Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Thursday at Anzac Day services to commemorate those who fought and died in major conflicts in the nations' history.
May 09, 2024
An Australian counter terrorism team arrested seven teenagers on Wednesday linked to a boy charged with a religiously-motivated terror attack on a Sydney bishop and
May 08, 2024
An Australian senator said on Wednesday that police feared Elon Musk's decision to ignore a regulator order and leave footage on his social media platform X of a
May 08, 2024
Australian miner Lynas posted a slump in third-quarter sales revenue on Wednesday, missing analyst expectations on the back of a plunge in prices for rare earths, while it flagged
April 23, 2024Social media platform X said on Saturday it would challenge in court an order from an Australian regulator demanding the company remove some posts related to the stabbing of a
May 07, 2024
Australian financial conglomerate Macquarie Group said on Monday its banking and financial services unit will stop new car loans through direct, broker and novated lease channels in a bid
April 22, 2024
Australia's treasurer warned on Monday that events in the Middle East are fueling concerns for the global economy and will shape the government's budget in May, with near-term
April 21, 2024
Hundreds gathered on Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday evening, lighting candles as the sun set, to mourn the six people killed in a knife attack in the area's
April 21, 2024
National Australia Bank posted a double-digit drop in first-half earnings on Thursday but talked up the strength of the economy and said a margin-
May 16, 2024
Australia will spend almost A$1 billion on payments for those fleeing domestic violence and introduce new measures to police pornography and violence on the
May 01, 2024New Zealand’s government is continuing "information gathering discussions" on future cooperation with the AUKUS security pact but is "a long way" from being able
May 16, 2024
Australia's Qantas Airways said on Wednesday it was investigating issues impacting its frequent flyer application, after media reports suggested there was a data breach allowing users
April 30, 2024Australia's biggest banks are likely to report weaker first-half profit as high operating costs and competition to sell mortgages and deposits squeeze margins, setting up
May 15, 2024
The Federal Court of Australia has fined Macquarie Bank A$10 million ($6.4 million) for its lack of controls to detect and prevent unauthorised fee transactions carried out by third
May 03, 2024
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said on Friday he looked forward to visits by China's foreign minister and Australia's prime minister in the coming days that
May 03, 2024
Australia's central bank will hold its key policy rate at 4.35% for a fourth straight meeting on Tuesday and at least until end-September, according to a
May 18, 2024
Two Americans, one Canadian missing after attempt to climb New Zealand’s highest mountain
December 03, 2024
The state prosecutor’s office says three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico's Baja California state are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip
May 04, 2024
Australian officials say a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife has been shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the west coast city of Perth
May 05, 2024
Australian bank Westpac raised its share repurchase programme by A$1 billion ($661 million) and declared a special dividend on Monday citing a strong balance sheet, even
May 20, 2024
Australia's Qantas Airways agreed to pay A$120 million ($79 million) to settle a regulator lawsuit over the sale of thousands of tickets on already
May 20, 2024
Mexican authorities say relatives have positively identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend
May 05, 2024
Qantas Airways has agreed to pay $79 million in compensation and a fine for selling tickets on thousands of cancelled flights
May 06, 2024
Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in western Australia had been in a deradicalization program for two years but had no ties to an alleged network of teen extremists in Sydney
May 06, 2024
Workers at Australian state-owned submarine builder ASC Ltd began on Monday a campaign of strikes for higher wages that could disrupt maintenance for Australia's
May 06, 2024A Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian military helicopter during an "unsafe" and "unacceptable" confrontation over the Yellow Sea, Australia said on Monday.
May 21, 2024
Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California’s Pacific coast
May 06, 2024
An Australian woman on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to the murder of three elderly people who died after allegedly consuming a lunch she prepared which contained poisonous mushrooms.
May 07, 2024Australia's Wesfarmers said on Tuesday any move to break up its budget department store chain Kmart, hardware business Bunnings and chemicals maker WesCEF would drive up prices and
May 07, 2024The Australian government's budget will show a decline in projected gross debt this year and forecast a lower peak in debt ratios in the years ahead, the Treasury said on Monday.
May 21, 2024
China said on Tuesday its military took steps to warn and alert an Australian aircraft after Australia blamed a Chinese fighter jet for endangering one of its military
July 02, 2024
Australia's central bank chief said on Tuesday interest rates were at the right level after holding steady for a sixth month, but cautioned that
May 21, 2024
A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s family poisonous mushrooms with lunch has pleaded not guilty in an Australian court to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder
May 07, 2024
Australian police say a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man had been engaged in a deradicalization program since he detonated a homemade explosive device in a school toilet block two years ago
May 07, 2024
Australia's Perpetual will be broken up, with its name sold to global investment firm KKR & Co, in a deal worth over A$1.5 billion ($990 million), the Australian Financial Review reported
May 21, 2024
The Australian government will boost the number of skilled workers in the housing sector in next week's national budget, spending A$90.6 million ($59.76 million) on free training
May 22, 2024
A grounded airline in Australia
May 07, 2024
The mother of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico has delivered a moving tribute to her sons at a beach in San Diego
May 07, 2024
Australia said on Wednesday it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student
May 22, 2024
Global private equity investors and asset managers are readying for billions of dollars worth of M&A and
May 22, 2024
Perpetual said on Wednesday that buyout giant KKR & Co would acquire its wealth management and corporate trust businesses for A$2.18 billion ($1.43 billion), sending the Australian
May 22, 2024
Australia will quadruple its financial assistance to Tuvalu, a Pacific Island nation at risk from rising seas, to cement a landmark climate migration and security
May 22, 2024
JPMorgan's Australian arm has been fined A$775,000 ($509,252.50) for allowing suspicious client orders to be placed on wheat futures trading designed to manipulate the market, the
May 22, 2024
Japanese steelmakers have raised concerns with Australian authorities that BHP Group could become too dominant in the global supply of
May 24, 2024
Meta's oversight board upheld a decision to remove two Facebook posts calling for Australians to vote multiple times in an indigenous rights referendum, but noted the
May 24, 2024
Australia announced on Friday that it would hold a parliamentary inquiry to look into the negative impacts of social media platforms, saying they have significant
May 24, 2024
An Australian judge has extended a ban on social media platform X allowing videos of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop in his church last month after government lawyers condemned the company's free speech argument for keeping the graphic images circulating
May 10, 2024
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday the country's support for a Palestinian bid to become a full United Nations member was part of building momentum to secure
May 27, 2024
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday he expected this week's federal budget would help ease the country's stubbornly high inflation, as many Australians continue to
May 27, 2024
Australia's government, preparing to announce the federal budget, said on Sunday inflation could moderate to the central bank's 2%-3% target range by the end of the year, a faster
May 27, 2024
An Australian court on Monday rejected a bid by the country's cyber safety regulator to extend a temporary order for Elon Musk-owned X to block videos of the stabbing of an Assyrian
May 28, 2024
Australia's government is expected to boast another surplus in its annual budget due on Tuesday, courtesy of strong employment and high commodity prices
May 27, 2024
ANZ Group Holdings said on Monday Australia's corporate regulator is investigating the lender for suspected violation of laws in executing the issuance of 10-year treasury bonds by the
May 27, 2024
An Australian judge has lifted a ban on the social media platform X showing Australians a video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church
May 13, 2024
Australia's government will boast a second consecutive budget surplus on Tuesday, courtesy of strong employment and high commodity prices, giving it cash to afford more cost of
May 28, 2024
An Australian court has sentenced a former military lawyer to five years and eight months in jail for sharing with journalists classified military documents about the special forces
May 28, 2024Qantas Airways said on Tuesday it will suspend flights to Shanghai starting on July 28, citing low demand, nine months after the Australian flag carrier resumed service from Sydney on
May 28, 2024
An Australian judge says it would be unreasonable for the country’s internet safety watchdog to require social platform X to hide video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church from all of its users around the world
May 14, 2024
A former Australian army lawyer has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for leaking classified information that exposed allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
May 14, 2024
A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, a new record
May 14, 2024
Australia's government plans to spend billions to cut energy bills and rent, hoping to lower headline inflation and provide relief for voters grumbling
May 29, 2024
Rating agency S&P said on Tuesday that Australia's budget for the fiscal year ending June 2024 could be mildly inflationary.
May 29, 2024Australian wage growth unexpectedly slowed from 15-year highs in the first quarter, data showed on Wednesday, likely marking the peak for this cycle and another sign
May 30, 2024
Indonesia is optimistic an agreement can be reached on the repatriation to Australia of the remaining five members of the 'Bali Nine' drug ring, the senior
December 03, 2024
Australian employment rose by more than expected in April, data showed on Thursday, but the jobless rate still climbed to a three-month top as the growth in workforce
May 31, 2024
Donald Trump gave the AUKUS defence pact a "warm reception", during a meeting with former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the latter said, one of the few
May 31, 2024
Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveller from
July 02, 2024
Australia and New Zealand have sent airplanes to New Caledonia to begin bringing home stranded citizens from the violence-wracked French South Pacific territory
May 21, 2024
Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Tuesday Solomon Islands' newly elected Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele had told him the Pacific Island nation is
June 05, 2024
Australia says its military has flown 115 people from the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia and France will soon evacuate and 100 to the Australian city of Brisbane
May 22, 2024
Singapore and Australia agreed on Tuesday to seek opportunities for increased access to their respective defence facilities, including more frequent Australian
December 03, 2024
Shell expects its Australian supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help meet demand from emerging markets in south and southeast Asia, which are tipped
June 06, 2024
An Australian woman, accused of murdering three elderly people after they allegedly consumed poisonous mushrooms at a lunch hosted by her, faced her first hearing in court on
June 07, 2024An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia
May 24, 2024
Rescue teams looking for three climbers who went missing on New Zealand's highest mountain have found equipment belonging to the trio, police said on Tuesday, as a second day of
December 03, 2024The U.S. has imposed import curbs on certain poultry and byproducts from Victoria, Australia after determining highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in domestic birds.
June 11, 2024
Top Australian miners Rio Tinto and BHP Group will work together for testing large battery-operated electric haul truck technology in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto
June 12, 2024
Australian retail sales crept higher in April as shoppers stayed frugal in the face of high borrowing costs and rising rents, another sign household spending will add
June 12, 2024
Australian home price rises will outpace overall inflation over the next couple of years, despite fading expectations of interest rate cuts, according to a
June 13, 2024Australian mining giant BHP Group has pledged to invest in South Africa's economy as it seeks support for a 38.6 billion pound ($49.3 billion) bid to acquire Anglo American, which was founded in the country more than a century ago and remains one of its biggest employers
May 29, 2024
China has lifted its import bans on five major Australian beef producers effective immediately, the Australian government said on Thursday, in the latest sign of improving relations
June 14, 2024
Most of Australia's main cropping regions are likely to endure a dry June but should grow significantly wetter from July, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday.
June 13, 2024
Two more players could be involved in the Australian soccer match-fixing case that has already resulted in three Macarthur FC players being charged
May 30, 2024
Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore have agreed to stage more complex military drills in the region this year involving drones, fifth-generation fighter planes
June 17, 2024
Australia has asked for military talks with China and is comfortable growing closer to the Philippines, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday at
June 18, 2024
Talk about taking the road less traveled
December 03, 2024
Australia's independent wage-setting body on Monday raised the national minimum wage by 3.75%, largely in line with inflation, as families tackle soaring living costs.
June 18, 2024
The Australian city that became a global food and drink powerhouse
December 03, 2024
Australian government spending rose in the March quarter to make a much needed contribution to economic growth, data showed on Tuesday, helping offset a steep drag from net exports.
June 20, 2024
Australian airline Qantas on Tuesday backed Boeing to bounce back from an unprecedented crisis that has led to an overhaul of the American planemaker's management and drawn scrutiny
June 20, 2024
Australia's cyber safety regulator on Wednesday decided to drop a legal challenge against Elon Musk-owned X over the removal of videos of the stabbing of an Assyrian
June 22, 2024
The Australian government on Wednesday introduced legislation that would require buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firms to run credit checks on borrowers, aiming to regulate
June 21, 2024
Australia's economy slowed to a crawl in the March quarter as high borrowing costs and still-elevated inflation put the brakes on consumer spending, even as the
June 21, 2024
Australia's privacy regulator said on Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit against the country's biggest health insurer Medibank over a data breach that exposed personal information of
June 22, 2024Australia’s online safety watchdog has dropped her Federal Court case aimed at forcing X Corp. to take down a video of a Sydney bishop being stabbed
June 05, 2024
New South Wales has become the last Australian state to apologize for laws criminalizing homosexual acts, 40 years after decriminalization
June 06, 2024
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Canberra wanted deeper ties with its Pacific neighbour Solomon Islands and a region where decisions are made "without
June 23, 2024
Australian tennis icon Neale Fraser dies at 91
December 03, 2024
Defending champion England has charged at Australia’s tournament-best 201 total and come up 36 runs short in a one-sided Twenty20 World Cup contest in Barbados
June 08, 2024
Australian Prime Minster Anthony Albanese on Monday condemned vandalism of the U.S. consulate in Sydney after the building was defaced in what local media said appeared to be a pro-
June 25, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged activists on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian debate to “turn the heat down” after the U.S. Consulate in Sydney was vandalized
June 10, 2024
Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd said its chairman Peter Costello resigned on Saturday and has been replaced by non executive deputy chair Catherine West.
June 25, 2024
Australia's long-serving Davis Cup captain Neale Fraser, who won three Grand Slam singles titles during the country's golden era of tennis in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at 91.
December 03, 2024Police in New Zealand offered an 80,000 New Zealand dollar reward and immunity from prosecution on Tuesday to anyone who could help them secure the safe return of three children missing since December 2021
June 11, 2024
China's Li Qiang will arrive in Australia on Saturday, the first visit by a Chinese premier since 2017, in a sign of improving ties, Australian Prime Minister
June 26, 2024
Private equity firm Bain Capital has offered to buy Australia's Bapcor in a A$1.83 billion ($1.21 billion) deal, which analysts said could draw
June 26, 2024
Having overcome a heart condition and an eating disorder, Australian swimmer Lani Pallister struggled to keep her emotions in check after qualifying for her first Olympics on the
June 26, 2024
Australia's top trade official is predicting China will lift a ban on Australian lobster imports after Chinese Premier Li Qiang visits the country
June 12, 2024
Ariarne Titmus has set a world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials
June 12, 2024
Regional security concerns will overshadow lucrative trade ties when China's Premier Li Qiang visits New Zealand and Australia this
June 27, 2024
Australian wine makers shipped wine worth A$86 million ($57 million) to China in the month after Beijing lifted tariffs and should be confident of bumper sales going forward, the
June 27, 2024
Australian employment outpaced expectations in May as firms took on more full-time workers, while the jobless rate dipped in a sign the labour market remains resilient even as the
June 28, 2024
Australia's Qantas Airways said on Thursday it will acquire the remaining 49% stake in online travel business TripADeal for A$211 million ($140.6 million) as the airline seeks to capitalize
June 28, 2024
The Australian government should be required to disclose every consulting contract worth over A$2 million ($1.33 million) and contracts should include a requirement that providers
June 28, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has arrived in Australia on a relations-mending mission
June 15, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Australia on Saturday, saying relations were "back on track" as he started the first visit by a Chinese premier to the major
June 28, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia has focused on positive aspects of the bilateral relationship including shared giant pandas and a rebounding wine trade after he urged both countries to shelve their differences
June 16, 2024
China Premier Li Qiang made a low-key start on Sunday to a four-day trip to Australia with visits to a South Australian winery and Adelaide Zoo, where he announced Beijing would provide two
June 28, 2024
Australia and China will take steps to improve military communication to avoid incidents, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said after meeting Premier Li Qiang on
July 02, 2024
Australian writer Yang Hengjun's suspended death sentence has been upheld by Beijing's High People's Court, with the decision relayed to Australian officials two
June 28, 2024
Singapore-based investment firm Temasek Holdings will invest up to A$300 million ($198.4 million) in Australian exchange-traded fund manager Betashares, the company said on Monday.
June 28, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang says he has agreed with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to properly manage their nations’ differences as they emerge from a hostile era in which minister-to-minister contacts were banned and trade barriers cost Australian exporters up to $13 billion a year
June 16, 2024
Australian gambling services firm Tabcorp Holdings on Monday appointed former Australian Football League (AFL) boss Gillon McLachlan as its chief executive and managing director.
June 28, 2024Global supply chains for rare earths are realigning to diversify away from top producer China to make permanent magnets used in products from electric vehicles to wind turbines
July 02, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited a lithium processing plant in resource-rich Western Australia state on Tuesday, highlighting China's push to
July 02, 2024
Australia is sending seven ministers and its police chief to Papua New Guinea to hold security and trade talks with its northern neighbour, government officials
June 30, 2024Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had told China's Premier Li Qiang that an incident at parliament house, where Chinese officials tried to
June 30, 2024
During a visit to Australia this week, Chinese Premier Li Qiang made a classic goodwill gesture that boded well for relations between the two countries: he offered to send pandas.
July 01, 2024
Australia's central bank debated whether to raise interest rates at a policy meeting on Tuesday given there were upside risks to inflation, but decided
June 30, 2024
Australia's central bank held interest rates steady on Tuesday as expected, while reiterating that it was not ruling out further increases if needed to control inflation.
June 29, 2024
Australia’s main opposition party says it plans to build Australia’s first nuclear power plants as early as 2035, arguing the government’s policies for decarbonizing the economy with renewable energy will not work
June 19, 2024
Papua New Guinea Foreign Minister Justin Tkachenko said on Wednesday the Pacific Island nation was "crystal clear" in partnering with Australia for security, as
July 01, 2024Mexican food chain Guzman Y Gomez served up Australia's best initial public offering debut in three years with its shares leaping more than one-third on their first
July 02, 2024
Australia's main opposition party wants a sensible debate about nuclear power as it commits to build seven plants to replace coal generation if it
July 02, 2024
Australia will provide a further $1.3 million to support reconstruction efforts in Papua New Guinea after last month's deadly landslide
June 20, 2024
Australia said it would provide A$2 million ($1.33 million) to Papua New Guinea to restore road access to the Porgera gold mine, previously one of the world's largest, and other
July 02, 2024Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Friday that his country wants to restart annual dialogue with China's chief of defence to reduce
June 21, 2024
China and Australia will provide each other's citizens with multiple-entry visas of up to five years for tourism and business from Friday, the Chinese foreign ministry said, in
June 21, 2024
A ferry ran aground in New Zealand during an island crossing, but there were no injuries although 47 people unable to disembark had to spend the night aboard in an incident the
June 22, 2024A ferry between New Zealand's two main islands that ran aground on Friday night was successfully refloated late on Saturday, the government of the Pacific nation said.
June 22, 2024Australian police said on Sunday they were investigating an incident at a shopping mall in the southern city of Adelaide that led to an evacuation of the centre and resulted in some
June 23, 2024New Caledonia’s public prosecutor says a pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory has been transferred to a jail in mainland France to await trial for his alleged role in a recent deadly unrest
June 23, 2024
Australia could impose billion dollar fines on big supermarket chains that fail to comply with an industry code of conduct, the federal government said on Monday as it
June 24, 2024
Australia plans to outlaw the sale of vapes outside pharmacies from next week under some of the world’s toughest restrictions on electronic cigarettes
June 24, 2024
Australia will water down a planned world first ban on vaping after opposition from the Greens party led the government on Monday to agree to amend a bill that
July 03, 2024
Hit with Chinese tariffs, Australia's wine industry struggled to offset the impact of falling exports despite scrambling to build new
July 03, 2024
Australian consumer sentiment rebounded modestly in June as the promise of imminent tax cuts lightened the mood, a survey showed on Tuesday, though the risk of yet higher borrowing
July 03, 2024Australian leaders are cautiously welcoming an expected plea agreement that could set free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
June 25, 2024
China has lifted trade restrictions on two Australian meat processing facilities, allowing the full resumption of red meat exports to the country, the Australian government
December 03, 2024
Better known for its sandy beaches and Second World War wrecks, the tropical Pacific island of Saipan will soon host the final act of Julian Assange's 14-year legal
June 25, 2024
Australia Prime Minster Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday he wanted Julian Assange brought back home to Australia as soon as possible, after the WikiLeaks founder left Britain before
July 03, 2024
Alex Sarr was born in France and spent last season playing in Australia
June 25, 2024
Australia's Star Entertainment has appointed Steve McCann as its group CEO and managing director to lead the embattled casino operator out of a regulator inquiry into its
June 25, 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange landed to an ecstatic welcome in Australia on Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law in
June 25, 2024
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele met Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Wednesday to discuss security and
June 25, 2024
Australia's central bank said on Wednesday that monetary policy was restrictive with the current cash rate causing financial pain for many households, but it could not rule out
June 25, 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has returned to his homeland Australia after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets
June 26, 2024
Qatar Airways is in talks to buy up to a 20% stake in Bain Capital-owned Virgin Australia, the Australian Financial Review (AFR) reported on Wednesday, as carriers fight for more market
June 26, 2024
Julian Assange spent his first night in 14 years as a free man back at home in Australia as the conservative opposition on Thursday cautioned the
June 26, 2024
Actor Ian Smith, who has played the character Harold Bishop in the iconic Australian soap opera “Neighbours” since 1987, has announced his retirement after being diagnosed with terminal cancer
December 03, 2024
An Australian man was charged with a terrorism offence on Thursday after walking into a politician's electorate office with plans to kill him, the authorities and local media said.
June 27, 2024Prosecutors in Indonesia have demanded an eight-month medical rehabilitation for an Australian man charged with possessing methamphetamine on the tourist island of Bali, after his earlier charge of drug trafficking was dropped which would have carried the death penalty
June 27, 2024
Australia on Friday gave the go-ahead for ANZ Group's A$4.9 billion ($3.26 billion) buyout of Suncorp's banking business, clearing the deal to proceed after almost two years of
June 27, 2024
Facebook owner Meta is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees, a company representative told a parliamentary
June 28, 2024
Australian telecom major Telstra's pension fund arm TelstraSuper will merge with bigger peer Equip Super creating a combined fund that would manage around A$60 billion ($38.8
December 03, 2024Australia's government ramped up spending on infrastructure and defence in the third quarter, data showed on Tuesday, making a vital contribution to economic growth as
December 03, 2024
BHP Group's operational carbon emissions are set for a "small increase" this financial year, an executive revealed on Wednesday, as the miner said its "non
June 25, 2024
Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday he was confident cuts to income taxes from Monday would not exacerbate price rises, as the nation suffers a cost-of-living squeeze
June 30, 2024
Australian home prices rose in June for a seventeenth straight month, as tight supply outweighed demand-side pressures of high interest rates, a cost of living squeeze and tight
June 30, 2024
Australia said on Monday it had more than doubled the visa fee for international students, the latest move by the government to rein in record migration that has
July 01, 2024
Australian job advertisements fell for a fifth straight month in June, data showed on Monday, as labour demand continued to ease in the face of high interest rates and a slowing
July 01, 2024
Australia has appointed Sam Mostyn as only its second woman governor-general, a largely ceremonial role representing the British monarch as the nation’s head of state
July 01, 2024
Australia restricts vape sales to pharmacies in ‘world-leading’ move to cut nicotine use
July 01, 2024
A fire at Anglo American's Grosvenor metallurgical coal mine in Australia is likely to negatively affect its Australian met coal business, broker Jefferies said in a note on
July 01, 2024
New vaping regulations in Australia came into force on Monday, moving e-cigarettes behind pharmacy counters in a bid to curb youth vaping although opponents forced
July 01, 2024
Shares in Anglo American slid as much as 4% on Monday, with investors worried over what impact an ongoing underground blaze at a coal mine in Australia could have on the miner's plan
July 01, 2024
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breaks 400-meter hurdles world record for fifth time
July 01, 2024
When floods hit the eastern Australian town of Lismore two years ago, Adam Bailey lost all the historic collections from his antique store,
July 01, 2024
New Zealand's conservative coalition government will proceed with a bill that would make it compulsory for digital technology platforms to pay media companies for news, it said on
July 01, 2024
Australian police said it had arrested a 14-year-old boy after a stabbing at the University of Sydney on Tuesday morning, which triggered a lockdown of the university buildings.
July 01, 2024
Australia is giving the internet industry six months to come up with an enforceable code detailing how it will stop children seeing pornography and other inappropriate material
July 02, 2024
Australia's central bank pondered whether a further rise in interest rates was needed to bring inflation to heel at its June policy meeting, but decided to stand pat in part
July 02, 2024
Australian lender ANZ has been sanctioned for failing to stop or refund fees for dead customers and not responding to their representatives within a required time frame
July 02, 2024
Good luck getting a late-morning McMuffin in Australia.
July 02, 2024
After being released from a UK prison as a part of a plea deal with the US, Julian Assange is flying to Saipan, an island near Australia, where he will appear in a US court on June 26.
June 26, 2024
Australia's corporate watchdog should be split into two after "comprehensively" failing in its role, including by not taking action against offenders and focusing more
July 03, 2024
Australia will move its top secret intelligence data to the cloud under a A$2 billion deal with Amazon Web Services that Defence Minister Richard Marles said would
July 04, 2024Australian police said on Thursday it had located the remains believed to be that of a missing 12-year-old child reportedly attacked by a crocodile in the country's north.
July 04, 2024Police have found remains of a 12-year-old girl two days after she was snatched by a crocodile while swimming in a creek in remote northern Australia
July 04, 2024
Remains found in search for 12-year-old following reported crocodile attack in Australia
July 04, 2024Australia's federal court has found that PayPal's local unit used an unfair term in its standard contracts with small business customers who overlooked errors in overcharging, the country's
July 05, 2024
Australian swimming is on the rise but the United States should still be rated as favourites to top the medal table once again at the Paris pool, said Michael Bohl,
July 05, 2024
Australia's Mining And Energy Union has reached an agreement with Anglo American to extend pay until August-end for workers at its Grosvenor mine that was shut earlier this week due to an
July 05, 2024
Seven-times champion Novak Djokovic shrugged off a slow start to power past unseeded Australian Alexei Popyrin 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-6(3) and into the Wimbledon fourth
July 06, 2024
Lauren Jackson will finally get to go to her fifth Olympics after being named in the Australia basketball squad for the Paris Games on Sunday, 27 years after she got her first call-
July 07, 2024
Three children, including a 10-month-old, were killed after fire ripped through a house in Sydney early on Sunday in an incident Australian police said they were treating as a
July 07, 2024Basketball star Lauren Jackson will compete at her fifth Olympics after being selected in Australia’s 12-player squad just three months after again coming out of retirement
July 07, 2024
U.S. and Australian officials said on Monday they were committed to improving financial connectivity in the Pacific, as lenders and policymakers
July 07, 2024
Japan is keen to deepen security ties with the Philippines, the United States and Australia under trilateral and quadrilateral arrangements, its defence minister said on Monday.
July 08, 2024
Australian police ordered three nights of curfew on Monday in the outback tourist town of Alice Springs after several incidents of violence, including
July 08, 2024Australian auto parts retailer Bapcor rejected on Tuesday the A$1.83 billion ($1.23 billion) buyout offer from private equity firm Bain Capital
July 08, 2024
Australian consumer sentiment fell in July as fears about a possible rise in borrowing costs overshadowed the prospect of lower taxes and government relief on power bills, a survey
July 09, 2024
Australia's DigitalX said on Tuesday that it has obtained approval to list its spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund on the Australian Securities Exchange.
July 08, 2024
ANZ bank is in talks with the Australian government about ways to make its business in the Pacific Islands more viable as an exodus of Western financial services
July 09, 2024
Australia on Tuesday pledged to boost investment in Pacific Island countries to support their financial systems, as banks cut ties to the region
July 09, 2024Australian business conditions worsened in June with the outlook for employment taking a notable hit, a survey showed on Tuesday, though firms were a little more confident as cost
July 09, 2024
New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Australia are sending leaders or their deputies to the NATO summit in Washington this week as the military alliance shows growing interest beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere
July 09, 2024
Australia's government cybersecurity agency on Tuesday accused a China-backed hacker group of stealing passwords and usernames from two unnamed Australian networks in
July 09, 2024
Afghan sprinter Kimia Yousofi is preparing to compete at her third Olympics after being selected for the Paris Games from her training base in Australia
July 08, 2024
The Australian government has named a special envoy to confront a rise in antisemitism across the country since the Israel-Hamas war began
July 09, 2024
Australia appoints special envoys as antisemitism, Islamophobia rise over Gaza war
July 09, 2024
Rangers have shot dead a 14-foot saltwater crocodile in Australia after it killed a 12-year-old girl while she was swimming with her family
July 10, 2024
An explosion gutted a factory on the outskirts of the Australian city of Melbourne on Wednesday, igniting a massive fire that firefighters said would take days to fully put out.
July 10, 2024
The Philippines Air Force arrived in northern Australia on Wednesday on its first overseas deployment in six decades for combat practice alongside U.S.
July 10, 2024
Australian Alex De Minaur pulled out of his Wimbledon quarter-final against second seed Novak Djokovic on Wednesday due to a hip injury, sending the Serbian
July 10, 2024
Joining this week's meeting of NATO leaders in Washington will be some countries far from Europe or North America - Australia, Japan, New
July 10, 2024
The euro faltered on Monday against a strong U.S. dollar on growing concerns about a possible government collapse in France, which would stall plans to
December 01, 2024
Australian police said on Thursday a 28-year-old father had been charged with murder following a house fire in Sydney's west that killed three children, including a five-month-old
July 10, 2024Papua New Guinea’s sidelined Petroleum Minister Jimmy Maladina has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a woman during a domestic dispute in Australia
July 11, 2024Australia's BHP Group will temporarily suspend its Nickel West operations and West Musgrave project from October, the miner said on Thursday, as it reels from a plunge in metal
July 11, 2024
Officials say two Australian nationals and their Filipina companion were killed in a hotel in a popular resort city south of the Philippine capital, and police were trying to identify and track down the suspects
July 11, 2024
Russian-born couple charged with spying offense in Australia
July 12, 2024
Australia said on Friday it had arrested a Russian-born married couple on espionage charges, alleging the woman who was an information systems technician in the
July 11, 2024An Australian army private and her husband accused of spying for Russia have been denied bail on the first charges against suspected operatives under Australia’s updated 2018 espionage laws
July 12, 2024
Australia plans to introduce a law by the end of the year forcing internet companies to proactively stop hosting scams or face hefty fines, the top consumer regulator
July 12, 2024
Australia's competition watchdog has started an informal review of the network sharing deal between TPG Telecom and Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications, the regulator said on
July 12, 2024
An Australian art museum curator has divulged that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso -- and which prompted a gender discrimination case when she only permitted female gallery patrons to view them
July 12, 2024
Philippines police are investigating a suspected murder of an Australian couple and their Filipino relative who were staying at a hotel in a
July 12, 2024
Jessica Hull of Australia blazed to a world record in the women's 2,000 metres at the Monaco Diamond League meet on Friday, making a stunning statement ahead of the Paris Olympics as
July 12, 2024
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July 01, 2024King Charles III is preparing to visit Australia and Samoa in October, an itinerary that will span 12 time zones and test the monarch’s stamina as he recovers from cancer treatment
July 14, 2024
The World Bank is preparing a financial lifeline for Pacific Island nations, backed by the U.S. and Australia, as an exodus of Western
July 14, 2024
Australian second baseman Travis Bazzana was taken by the Cleveland Guardians with the No. 1 pick in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft when three players from Wake Forest were selected in the top 10
July 14, 2024
Four Australian banks will give back a total of A$28 million ($18.95 million) to low-income customers, after a review by the corporate regulator found these customers had been kept in high-
July 15, 2024
Travis Bazzana becomes first Australian ever taken with top pick in Major League Baseball draft
July 15, 2024
Anthony Davis scored 17 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, Tyrese Haliburton came up with a pair of late 3-pointers that helped stop a freefall by the Americans, and the U.S. beat Australia 98-92 on Monday to improve to 2-0 in its five-game slate of exhibitions leading into the Paris Olympics
July 15, 2024
USA Basketball Men’s National Team survives Australia fightback in Olympic warmup contest
July 16, 2024
Philippine officials say the suspect in last week's killings of two Australians and their Filipina companion at a Philippine hotel in a popular resort city south of Manila has surrendered
July 16, 2024American comedy-rock duo Tenacious D, formed by actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass, suspended the rest of its Australian tour after comments made by Gass over the assassination attempt
July 17, 2024
Papua New Guinea’s sidelined Petroleum Minister, Jimmy Maladina, will appear in a Sydney court in March to fight a charge of assaulting a woman during a domestic dispute
July 17, 2024Hearing impaired children in Japan's coastal city of Shizuoka will from next year be able to listen, learn and speak better thanks to an A$6.5 million ($4.4 million) programme
July 17, 2024A suspect in the July 10 killing of an Australian couple and their Filipino relative at a Philippine hotel has surrendered,
July 17, 2024
Australian employment jumped well beyond expectations in June, yet the jobless rate still ticked higher as more people went looking for work, a mixed report that leaves open the
July 18, 2024
Shares in Australia's Domino's Pizza Enterprises hit a more than nine-year low on Thursday, as analysts cut their earnings outlook after the company decided to close low-
July 18, 2024
Australia's Olympic swimming head coach Rohan Taylor has praised the United States team as the "standard of the sport" in a bid to ease tensions following a media campaign
July 18, 2024
An Italian carrier strike group on its first deployment to the Indo-Pacific region will sail through the South China Sea to the Philippines after
July 18, 2024
A cyber outage related to issues at global cybersecurity firms CrowdStrike and Microsoft hit media, retailers, banks, airlines and telecoms
July 19, 2024
Officials say two Australian and three Indonesian nationals have survived after a tourist helicopter crashed in Bali, due to being entangled in a kite string
July 19, 2024Australia's cyber intelligence agency said on Saturday that "malicious websites and unofficial code" were being released online claiming
July 20, 2024
Australia's women soccer players have arrived in Paris without some of their luggage, including key medical equipment, that has been stuck in Spain, Australia
July 21, 2024A plan by Australia's federal opposition that would slow the roll-out of renewable power and build a network of nuclear reactors has set the scene for a divisive
July 22, 2024
Australia would not pick a convicted rapist for the Olympics, team chief Anna Meares said on Monday after the Netherlands selected a beach volleyball player
July 22, 2024
American swimming, be warned: Australia are coming for the crown at the Paris Olympics.
July 22, 2024
Australian beach volleyball player Taliqua Clancy got an unexpected surprise walking around the athletes’ village at the Paris Olympics
July 22, 2024
Lynas Rare Earths posted a drop in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, hit by production decline at its Kalgoorlie facility in Western Australia and lower underlying prices,
July 22, 2024
Australia on Tuesday announced new offshore gas exploration permits for its east and west coast markets in a bid to ease concerns over long-term supply gaps as the country moves
July 23, 2024Australian police said on Tuesday a 43-year-old man had been charged with allegedly trafficking a teenager from Indonesia for sex work, while a woman was arrested in Jakarta
July 23, 2024The first hearing date has been set in a class action against miner Rio Tinto for historical environmental and social damage caused by the Bougainville copper mine in Papua New
July 23, 2024
Asian stocks are mostly lower as markets digest Japanese and Australian business data, while U.S. stocks held relatively steady as earnings reporting season ramped up for big companies
July 23, 2024
Goldman Sachs Group's alternative investments platform said on Tuesday it bought seven logistics-focused properties across Australia to scale up its real estate portfolio.
July 23, 2024
The Australian Olympic team is aware of allegations by an Australian woman that she was raped in Paris, the team's chief said on Tuesday, urging the nation's athletes to take extra
July 23, 2024
Australia Defence MInister Richard Marles said on Wednesday Canberra is confident a re-elected Donald Trump will back the AUKUS security alliance and associated
July 24, 2024
French prosecutors are investigating an alleged gang rape of an Australian woman visiting Paris where preparations to host the 2024 Olympics are in the final stretch
July 24, 2024Five players on Australia’s women’s water polo team have tested positive for COVID-19
July 24, 2024Three more Australian women's water polo players have tested positive for COVID ahead of the Paris Games, the country's Olympic team chief Anna Meares said on Wednesday,
July 24, 2024
Australian bank ANZ said it has fired or suspended traders from its markets business over allegations of inappropriate behaviour and warned an
July 24, 2024
The world's largest platypus conservation centre has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found
July 24, 2024
Mayne Pharma has filed a lawsuit against India's Sun Pharma over infringements of patents related to a certain product used for menopause-related vaginal pain, the Australian drugmaker said
July 24, 2024
Violent attacks on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) north has likely killed 26 people, including 16 children, whiled several people were forced to flee after
July 25, 2024An Australian judge on Thursday dismissed a class action lawsuit claiming Bayer's Roundup weedkiller can cause a type of blood cancer, a ruling
July 25, 2024
Australia's Olympic 200 metres breaststroke champion Zac Stubblety-Cook said he may make an anti-doping protest after racing Chinese world record holder Qin Haiyang at
July 25, 2024
Australian field hockey player opts to amputate part of his finger in order to compete in Paris Olympics
July 25, 2024
Australia will play the 2024 Olympics without forward Bec Allen after tests revealed a high-grade hamstring injury suffered in the Opals’ final warmup for the Paris Games
July 25, 2024The U.S. military is building infrastructure in northern Australia to help it project power into the South China Sea if a crisis with China erupts, a Reuters
July 26, 2024
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday the conflict in military-ruled Myanmar was worsening and her message to the ruling junta was the situation there was unsustainable
July 27, 2024
Australia said on Saturday it had signed a A$2.2 billion ($1.4 billion) four-year contract with state-owned submarine builder ASC to upgrade the navy's Collins class submarines.
July 27, 2024
Missing out on a podium finish or a title could deter a lot of athletes, but in the case of Grace Brown, the near-misses gave the Australian the confidence she
July 27, 2024
Australia's peerless women's 4x100 metres freestyle relay swimmers secured their country a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the event at the Paris Games on
July 27, 2024
The Australian women are about the surest thing in swimming, and they showed it Saturday on the first night in the Paris Olympic pool
July 27, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday announced a cabinet reshuffle after two senior ministers said they planned to retire at the next election.
July 28, 2024
Australia's Alex de Minaur has withdrawn from the men's singles at the Paris Olympics as he continues to recover from a hip injury that cut short his Wimbledon campaign, the world
July 28, 2024
Australia's banking regulator on Monday said it would retain its strict home loan lending rules amid concern that the level of overall risk to the financial system remained elevated
July 28, 2024
Foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the United States said on Monday they were seriously concerned about intimidating and dangerous
July 29, 2024
The foreign and defence ministers of the United States and Australia will meet in the U.S. on Aug. 6, the country's embassy in Canberra said on Monday.
July 29, 2024
Top diplomats from Japan, the U.S., Australia and India have compiled measures to reinforce maritime safety and cybersecurity and to support other Asia-Pacific countries in improving their defenses
July 29, 2024
An expert will tell an inquiry that three Christian extremists killed two police officers and a bystander and wounded a third police officer in an ambush on a rural Australian property in 2022 in an act of terrorism
July 29, 2024
Air New Zealand abandoned on Tuesday a 2030 emissions reduction target, citing delivery delays of fuel-efficient aircraft and high green fuel prices, in a move signalling the difficulty
July 29, 2024
The Australian government said on Tuesday it was standing ready to assist airline Regional Express Holdings, which mainly serves rural towns, after it stopped selling tickets and a
July 30, 2024Drop bears: The true history of a fake Australian animal
July 30, 2024
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday that a security pact signed by Russia and North Korea was destabilising the region, adding that North
July 30, 2024
The complex emotions of the Olympic Games on full display after Aussies’ epic battle in the pool
July 30, 2024
Alex Sedrick ran the length of the field to give the U.S. women a first Olympic rugby sevens medal with a stunning stoppage-time comeback win over Australia in the bronze-medal match
July 30, 2024
Australia launches peanut allergy immunotherapy program for babies in world first
July 31, 2024
US women’s soccer team qualifies for Olympic quarterfinals as group winner after 2-1 victory over Australia
July 31, 2024
Australia’s biggest cocaine bust seized from broken down boat at sea
December 02, 2024
Pub chain owner backtracks on plans to ban Australia Day celebrations after outcry
December 02, 2024
Australia is struggling to improve the lives of the country's Indigenous population, with only five of 19 measures on course to meet targets, showed a government report
July 31, 2024
A downturn in the critical minerals sector that has triggered a wave of job losses in Australia's top earning resources state has also struck a blow to the country's hopes to
August 01, 2024Australian police said on Friday they seized about A$828 million ($538 million) worth of methamphetamine hidden inside industrial machinery shipped from the United States.
August 01, 2024The Australian dollar was pinned near three-month lows on Friday as weak U.S. data fuelled fears of a sharp slowdown in the world's largest economy, sending investors to the embrace
August 02, 2024
Australia's QCoal said on Saturday a worker had died at its Byerwen coking coal mine in the northeastern state of Queensland, but gave no further details.
August 03, 2024The Australian government said on Monday it would introduce rules to free up more takeoff and landing slots at Sydney airport, and make it easier for new airlines to get slots as it
August 05, 2024Australia on Monday raised its terror threat level to "probable" from "possible", citing an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50% chance of the
August 05, 2024
Western Australia's environment regulator said on Monday it expects to release its recommendations on Woodside Energy's Browse gas project in 2025, after a newspaper
August 05, 2024
Separatist rebels in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua on Monday killed a helicopter pilot from New Zealand after he landed his aircraft in a remote area, authorities said,
August 05, 2024Nigeria, Australia and several other countries warn about travel to UK amid riots
August 05, 2024The head of Australia's central bank on Tuesday ruled out rate cuts in the near term, saying policy had to remain restrictive to bring stubborn core inflation to heel.
August 06, 2024
Public employees in Australia's most populous state have been told to end remote working in a directive from the premier of New South Wales as he seeks to reverse work-from-home habits established during the pandemic
August 06, 2024
Electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation said on Tuesday the it has formally applied for its aircraft to be certified for use in Australia.
August 06, 2024
Australia will begin co-manufacturing guided weapons with the US next year to boost supply for allies in the Indo Pacific and increase a US military presence in the
August 06, 2024
An Australian man is set to appear in court on Wednesday after being arrested for the alleged theft of more than A$600,000 ($393,000) worth of commemorative coins
August 07, 2024
Arcadium Lithium on Wednesday joined a growing list of producers reviewing lithium operations in Australia amid a rout in prices for the battery raw material
August 07, 2024Shares of Australian-listed GQG Partners tumbled 13% on Monday after UBS downgraded the stock and said the firm may have lost A$600 million ($390 million) in funds
December 02, 2024
Prosecutors said Wednesday that a member of the Australian Olympic field hockey team was given a criminal warning in Paris after trying to buy cocaine, allowing him to be released from custody
August 07, 2024
Australia appointed Tesla chair Robyn Denholm on Monday to lead a review of the country's research and development performance, in an attempt to improve economic
December 02, 2024
Australia's central bank said on Monday that risks from non-bank lenders in securitisation are limited as the labour market remained resilient, supporting households and businesses,
December 02, 2024
Australia proposed a law on Monday that could impose fines of up to A$50 million ($33 million) on global technology companies if they suppress competition and prevent consumers from
December 02, 2024
New Zealand's prime minister is defending the removal of basic Māori phrases meaning “hello” and “New Zealand” from a lunar new year invitation to an Australian official
August 07, 2024
Australia's central bank will not hesitate to raise interest rates if needed to control inflation, its chief said on Thursday, reinforcing its hawkish messaging as the pace of
August 08, 2024It was a good day for Australia, mate
August 07, 2024
Canada and Australia, expressing alarm at China's claims over the disputed waters of the South China Sea, on Thursday said they would increase their military and defense industry
August 08, 2024
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said it may sell Australian cable TV and streaming unit Foxtel after receiving an approach, a deal that would end its
August 08, 2024Australia and New Zealand said they would provide A$42.6 million ($28.05 million) for Pacific Island countries, which span millions of kilometres of ocean, to store humanitarian aid
August 09, 2024Breanna Stewart scored 16 points and the U.S. women advanced to their eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal game with a 85-64 victory over Australia on Friday
August 09, 2024
A military investigation has found that an Osprey crash in Australia that killed three Marines last August was caused by pilot error during a near mid-air collision
August 09, 2024
The Australian government said on Saturday it had for the first time test-fired a Raytheon SM-6 missile from a Navy ship, a major step in acquiring and integrating the air-
August 10, 2024A helicopter on an unauthorised flight crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in Australia's northern tourist town of Cairns on Monday, killing the pilot and forcing hundreds of
August 11, 2024
Helicopter crashes onto roof of Australian hotel, killing pilot
August 12, 2024BHP, Rio Tinto and Qantas will invest a total of A$80 million ($52.7 million) as early-stage investors in an Australian carbon credits fund that aims to invest in land reforestation
August 12, 2024Australia's central bank said on Monday economic forecasts were subject to huge uncertainty, one reason that policymakers have stayed the course on interest rates while waiting for
August 12, 2024A man has died after an unauthorized helicopter flight in Queensland, Australia ended in a crash on a hotel roof, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people from the building as flames engulfed the aircraft
August 12, 2024
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's biggest lender, is expected to unveil a small decline in annual earnings on Wednesday, with investors focused on whether
August 13, 2024Shares of Challenger Ltd rose to their highest levels in nearly 16 months on Tuesday after the Australian investment management firm beat estimates on annual earnings,
August 13, 2024Australia's Orora Ltd shares spiked more than 15% after it said on Tuesday it had rejected a A$3.42 billion ($2.25 billion) takeover offer from U.S.
August 12, 2024Australian consumer sentiment bounced in August as rate fears subsided and the outlook for family finances improved due to the government's tax cuts and other cost-of-living
August 12, 2024Australian financial stocks are ruling the roost on the traditionally miners-led local main index, fueled by growing interest from equity funds that are wary of the
August 12, 2024Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's biggest lender, said on Wednesday full-year profit fell less than analysts feared due to lower
August 13, 2024The Australian corporate regulator has sued the country's stock market operator alleging it misled the public about the progress of a troubled software upgrade and
August 13, 2024
China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday the United States, Britain and Australia should not advance their nuclear submarine cooperation until the international community has
August 14, 2024
Top Australian telco Telstra raised its earnings forecast for fiscal 2025 on Thursday, prompting investors to overlook a 13% decline in annual profit and
August 14, 2024
The leader of Australia's main opposition party was told to "stop being racist" by another parliamentarian during a heated discussion on Thursday in which he said
August 15, 2024Australia, the United States and Britain have removed significant barriers on defence trade between the AUKUS partners and opened the way for faster approvals for
August 15, 2024Australian breaker Rachael Gunn says the backlash to her much-ridiculed Olympic performance has been “devastating,” adding that she took the competition seriously and gave her best effort
August 15, 2024
Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn said the backlash she has received since she competed at the Paris Olympics has been devastating, and pleaded for privacy for her family
August 15, 2024National Australia Bank, the country's No. 3 lender by total loans, reported on Friday that profit fell in the June quarter as inflation pushed up costs
August 15, 2024
The leaders of Australia and New Zealand said on Friday the AUKUS trilateral defence pact would boost regional security and stability, as both countries warned they
August 16, 2024
Australia's Whitehaven will cut 192 jobs at the Daunia and Blackwater coking coal mines it took over from global miner BHP Group, its spokesperson told Reuters on
August 16, 2024Joint production of hypersonic missiles by Australia and the United States could reduce strain on the U.S. defence industrial base and boost deterrence in the Indo
August 16, 2024Australia's Westpac Banking Corp said on Monday its third-quarter net profit was largely in line with a year ago, as increased earnings from capital and hedged deposits counterbalanced
August 18, 2024
Australian corporate earnings have been a "positive surprise" amid investor euphoria over estimate-beating margins, but historical trends suggest results could take a turn as the earnings
August 19, 2024
Australian police say they have seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine from a fishing boat off the coast of Queensland
December 02, 2024
Australia and Indonesia agreed a treaty-level defence cooperation agreement which allow Australian and Indonesian militaries to operate from each other's countries,
August 20, 2024Indonesia and Australia have finalized a new bilateral defense treaty that will enhance the neighboring nations’ ability to operate their militaries in each other’s territory
August 20, 2024
Australian retail sales firmed for a third straight month in October as tax cuts flowed through to wage packets and consumers became more confident that interest rates
December 02, 2024
Shares in Australia-based Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd slumped more than 7% on Wednesday, after the franchise operator flagged a weak start to fiscal 2025, as rising costs and frugal
August 21, 2024
Australia's central bank is set to come under intense pressure to ease policy in coming weeks as government giveaways to alleviate the cost of living pull consumer
August 21, 2024
An ambitious plan to build a massive solar farm in remote northern Australia to transmit energy by a submarine cable to Singapore is a step closer after the Australian government granted environmental approvals for the $19 billion project on Wednesday
August 21, 2024
A rising number of Australian farmers are disgruntled with the government's climate and agricultural policies, a survey showed on Wednesday, as measures to protect the environment
August 21, 2024
Geopolitical shocks could disrupt the political and security landscape and strain unity in the Pacific Islands region amid strategic rivalry between China and U.S. allies, a think-
August 21, 2024
Google and Australia's national science agency will join hands to develop digital tools that automatically detect and fix software vulnerabilities for operators of
August 21, 2024
Australia said it would jointly manufacture long-range Naval Strike Missiles and Joint Strike Missiles with Norway's Kongsberg Defence in the city of Newcastle on
August 21, 2024
A passenger has been arrested at an Australian airport after he left a stationary airliner through an emergency exit, walked along a wing and then climbed down a jet engine to the tarmac
August 22, 2024
Australian employees will from Monday have the right to ignore their bosses outside working hours thanks to a new law which enshrines the "right to disconnect."
August 22, 2024
Australia's competition regulator said on Thursday it will closely monitor domestic air fares between metropolitan cities after local carrier Regional Express withdrew from the market last
August 22, 2024
The penguin in a world famous same-sex penguin couple has died in a Sydney aquarium at 11 years old
August 22, 2024
Australia's bank regulator on Friday raised the amount of spare cash that No. 3 lender ANZ must keep on hand due to suspected wide-ranging misconduct at its
August 22, 2024
Australia Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Friday he was prepared to amend some proposed reforms of the Reserve Bank of Australia after objections from the opposition
August 22, 2024
A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine will undergo maintenance in Australia for the first time on Friday, a key step by AUKUS partners to deter aggression in the Indo-
August 23, 2024An Australian court ruled on Friday that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a
August 23, 2024
Australian wagering business Tabcorp has been fined A$4.3 million ($2.89 million) for repeated breaches of gambling harm prevention laws between 2020 and 2023, the
August 23, 2024
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's biggest lender, cut interest rates for some of its home loan products for new customers on Friday, stoking fears of
August 23, 2024
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough the geopolitical importance of island nations in the South Pacific, leaving a power vacuum that allowed other countries to increase their diplomatic influence
August 23, 2024
Australia's QCoal said on Saturday that workers at its Byerwen coking coal mine in Queensland state had been sent home pending a probe into the death of a worker at the site on
August 24, 2024Four people including a police officer were injured in a stabbing attack in Sydney early on Sunday, police said, the latest in a series of knife assaults in Australia's biggest city
August 24, 2024Australian employees now have the right to ignore their bosses outside working hours thanks to a new law which enshrines the "right to disconnect."
August 25, 2024
Earnings of Australia's top supermarket chains are likely to show constricted spending presenting a challenging outlook for Woolworths and Coles, as consumers
August 25, 2024
Woodside Energy, Australia's top independent gas producer, is on track to post a drop in interim earnings on Tuesday, with investors focusing on its
August 26, 2024
Australia said on Tuesday it would limit the enrolment number of new international students to 270,000 for 2025, as the government looks to rein in record migration
August 27, 2024
Australian grocer Coles reported annual profit ahead of expectations on Tuesday, driven by robust supermarket sales and enhanced inventory control to curb theft-related
August 27, 2024
Australia's Woodside Energy reported on Tuesday a decline of 14% in half-year profit, hit by lower oil prices, but the result and its dividend beat
August 27, 2024
‘Too good to be true’: Travelers score cheap first-class flights from Australia to US due to Qantas glitch
August 27, 2024
Shares of Woolworths climbed on Wednesday after the Australian grocer declared a special dividend and also said its full-year profit dropped in line with analysts'
August 28, 2024
Australian inflation slowed to a four-month low in July as government rebates on electricity bills kicked in, but progress on tempering price gains
August 28, 2024
Leaders of several Pacific Islands have endorsed an Australian-funded A$400 million ($271 million) plan to improve police training and create a
August 28, 2024
Australia's Qantas Airways announced an additional share buyback on Thursday but no dividend for the fifth year, as the airline reported a 16% annual
August 28, 2024
The CEO of Australia's biggest bank on Thursday decried the rise of misinformation and labelled a proposed tax on big company profits meritless, pushing back against
August 29, 2024
The brother of a boxer who had just won a bout punched the opponent's trainer in the ring in a chaotic post-fight melee in Sydney
August 28, 2024
Indonesia and Australia signed a defense agreement on Thursday that both sides described as a significant upgrade to their military relationship
August 29, 2024
The Australian Parliament has passed a social media ban for young children in a world-first law
November 28, 2024
Star Entertainment said on Friday its Australia-listed shares were halted from trading for the casino operator to digest the fallout from a scathing report on its corporate culture and
August 30, 2024
Australian retail sales were flat in July after two months of upbeat results, showing large-scale tax cuts were yet to boost spending and firming expectations the next
August 30, 2024
ANZ, Australia's third-largest retail bank, has found no evidence that suspected misconduct by its employees during a 2023 government bond issuance had cost Australian
August 30, 2024
Tens of thousands of people in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania were without power on Sunday after a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood
August 31, 2024Australian home prices nudged higher in August, posting a 19th straight monthly rise, though the pace of growth showed some signs of slowing, data showed on Monday.
September 01, 2024
Australian job advertisements fell for a seventh straight month in August, data showed on Monday, as demand for labour continued to ease in the face of high interest rates and a
September 02, 2024
Shares of casino operator Star Entertainment are suspended from quotation for not lodging its finanical results by the due date, the Australian bourse operator said on Monday.
September 02, 2024
A woman animal handler at an Australian theme park was attacked by a tiger and has been taken to hospital with deep cuts to the arm, Australian media reported on Monday.
September 02, 2024Australian retailer Woolworths has decided to exit the owner of liquor store chain Dan Murphy's and BWS bottle shops, ending its long-standing
September 02, 2024
Former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith on Monday pleaded guilty to raping, sexually abusing and exploiting dozens of girls under his care in Australia and
September 02, 2024A consortium led by Blackstone is nearing a deal to acquire Australian data centre group AirTrunk for A$20 billion ($13.53 billion) including debt, a person
September 02, 2024
Ella Sabljak helped Australia win the bronze medal in wheelchair rugby at the Paris Paralympics then turned her thoughts to growing the sport
September 02, 2024
Australia's Navy and Air Force rescued two people after a terrifying night at sea as 20-foot waves tossed their stricken yacht nearly 200 miles off Australia’s eastern coast.
September 03, 2024
Thieves stole 27 handguns worth more than $134,000 from a firearms museum in Australia. The guns could be operational, according to the New South Wales Police Force.
September 03, 2024Australia's economy stayed stuck in the slow lane in the June quarter as stiff borrowing costs and stubborn inflation squeezed consumers, leaving government spending
September 04, 2024
Iran summons Australian ambassador over post that ‘promoted homosexuality’
September 04, 2024Australian households prioritised spending on essential services such as healthcare in July, choosing to save extra cash from recent tax cuts as they grappled with stubborn inflation and
September 04, 2024
Blackstone will buy Australian data centre group AirTrunk for an implied enterprise value of over A$24 billion ($16.10 billion), it said on Wednesday, in what would
September 04, 2024
Australia's top central banker reiterated on Thursday that it was premature to contemplate near-term rate cuts as inflation remained too high, sticking to a hawkish stance even as
September 05, 2024
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef tries to make sustainability cool
September 05, 2024
Shares of Australia's Challenger closed 11% lower on Thursday after a key shareholder more than halved its stake in the investment management firm.
September 05, 2024After fortune teller prediction, Australian swimmer celebrates world record Paralympic gold-medal win
September 05, 2024
New Zealand home prices are forecast to rise around 5% in the next two years as lower interest rates boost demand again following a 19% correction
December 01, 2024
A Blackstone-led consortium is taking out an around $A5.5 billion ($3.7 billion) loan package to help fund the A$24 billion AirTrunk
September 05, 2024
A recent slump in sales means Sydney liquor store owner Louise Dowling has to work an additional 40 hours a week to make up for the staff she had to let go, as a
September 05, 2024
Star Entertainment will sell its interest in the Treasury Brisbane Casino building in Queensland for A$67.5 million ($45.47 million), the embattled casino operator said on Friday.
September 06, 2024
Australian swimming coach fired for supporting Korean athlete during Paris Olympics
September 06, 2024
Shares of Australia's Premier Investments fell 8% on Monday and were on track for their worst session in more than four years, after preliminary annual results showed
September 09, 2024Australian pizza chain Domino's Pizza Enterprises has been served with a shareholder class action, which includes an allegation that it misled investors in 2021 about expected performance
September 09, 2024
Australian pub landlord Hotel Property Investments jumped to a 19-month high on Monday, set for its best session in one-and-a-half years, after its top shareholder's buyout
September 09, 2024Australia plans to set a minimum age limit for children to use social media citing concerns about mental and physical health, sparking a backlash from
September 09, 2024
Australia's prudential regulator is proposing to bar banks from issuing certain hybrid securities to help meet their capital requirements starting in 2027 as retail
September 10, 2024
Singaporean man ordered to repay tens of millions in debt to Australian casino
September 10, 2024
Hundreds of farmers from across Australia held a protest on Tuesday against government farming policies they said were influenced by environmental and animal
September 10, 2024
The Australian government has promised to legislate this year to enforce a minimum age for children to access social media but has yet to announce how ages will be verified
September 10, 2024Instagram and Facebook-owner Meta Platforms said on Monday it had introduced stricter rules for advertisers of financial products and services targeting Australians, in a bid to
December 01, 2024
Australian woman finds deadly tiger snake at her feet while driving 50 miles per hour
December 01, 2024Unheralded American Ryggs Johnston has won his first professional title by claiming the Australian Open by three stokes, while South Korea’s Jiyai Shin claimed her second Women’s Australian Open which was played concurrently at two courses on the famed Melbourne sand belt
December 01, 2024
An Air New Zealand flight from Wellington to Sydney was diverted to Auckland on Sunday after an engine problem, the airline said.
December 01, 2024Anti-war protesters have clashed with police outside a military arms convention in the Australian city of Melbourne
September 10, 2024
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla will meet cancer researchers, representatives of Indigenous groups and conduct a navy fleet review in Sydney harbour during their visit to
September 10, 2024
Australian actor and director Simon Baker, best known for his role as Patrick Jane in the CBS drama series “The Mentalist,” has avoided a conviction after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol near his rural home
September 11, 2024
Protesters clash with police at Australia defense show
September 11, 2024
Four Olympic medals stolen from Australian rower’s car
September 11, 2024
Australian field hockey player Tom Craig banned after trying to buy cocaine at the Paris Olympics
September 11, 2024
Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment said on Thursday Chief Executive Officer Mike Sneesby would step down with effect from Sept. 30 and that chief finance and
September 12, 2024
Australia said it will fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online, joining a worldwide push to
September 12, 2024Australia will strip military awards from a group of war veterans over allegations those under their command committed war crimes in Afghanistan, Defence Minister
September 12, 2024
Australia's Defense Minister Richard Marles says several serving and former military commanders have been stripped of medals over allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan war
September 12, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden will host a Quad leaders summit with leaders from Australia, India and Japan on September 21 in Delaware, the White House said on Thursday.
September 12, 2024
President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Australia, India and Japan next weekend in his Wilmington, Delaware, hometown, the White House announced, as he looks to burnish his legacy before leaving office in January
September 12, 2024
The casino commission in Australia's biggest state said on Friday it may cancel Star Entertainment's Sydney licence or fine it up to A$100 million ($67.2 million) after an inquiry found
September 13, 2024
Australia said on Tuesday it had reached a trade deal with the United Arab Emirates that would remove tariffs for about 99% of Australian products, and result in savings of A$135
September 17, 2024Australia's central bank has decided to prioritise work on a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) as its economic benefits are judged to outweigh those of a retail version
September 17, 2024
AUKUS partners Australia, Britain and the United States said on Wednesday they are in discussions with Canada, Japan and New Zealand about potential collaboration on defence
September 18, 2024Australian police say they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests
September 18, 2024
Australian police on Wednesday charged a man with creating and managing a messaging app used by global organised crime networks, in the first case of its kind in the
September 18, 2024Australia's biggest appliance retailer Harvey Norman and one of its units have been served with a class action lawsuit on behalf of consumers who were allegedly sold bad warranties, law
September 18, 2024
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean have become more La Nina-like in recent weeks, but if the weather pattern does form, it is likely to be weak and short-lived, Australia's weather
September 18, 2024
Australia Trade Minister Don Farrell said on Thursday he was hopeful of China removing trade impediments on imports of Australian rock lobster by Christmas.
September 19, 2024
Australia's central bank will keep its key policy interest rate unchanged on Tuesday and for the rest of the year amid elevated price pressures,
September 19, 2024
A huge king penguin chick named Pesto, who weighs as much as both his parents combined, has become a social media celebrity and a star attraction at an Australian aquarium
September 20, 2024
An Australian judge has given prosecutors until December to finalize their case alleging that an army private and her husband are Russian spies
September 20, 2024New Zealand’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Rose King, has highlighted the challenges Pacific Island nations face with foreign military training in an interview with The Associated Press
September 20, 2024
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed after more than 18 months in captivity in Indonesia’s Papua, foreign minister says
September 21, 2024
Italian news agency ANSA reports that a man suspected of the brutal killing of two women in Australia almost a half-century ago has been arrested in Rome on an international arrest warrant
September 21, 2024Australia's consumer watchdog accused the country's two largest supermarket chains of misleading shoppers about discounts on hundreds of products in lawsuits
September 22, 2024
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that criticism by Elon Musk of Australia's social media ban on children under 16 was the X owner pushing an agenda for the
November 30, 2024
Australia’s central bank on Tuesday reiterated that interest rate cuts were unlikely in the near term as it held policy steady, but softened its hawkish
September 24, 2024
Australian consumer price inflation slowed to a three-year low in August due to government rebates on electricity and a drop in petrol, while core inflation hit its lowest since
September 25, 2024
Australia's federal court has imposed a record A$12.9 million ($8.89 million) fine on top U.S. asset manager Vanguard's local unit for making misleading claims about its ethical and green
September 25, 2024
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers will become the first government minister from Australia in that key economic role to visit China in seven years
September 25, 2024
Australia's embattled Star Entertainment said on Wednesday it will announce annual results a day later after securing a crucial debt package, which provides the casino group with a much-
September 25, 2024
Australia's CSL said on Wednesday it has got a contract from the U.S.
September 25, 2024
Australian fund manager Platinum Asset Management on Thursday rejected a takeover offer from hedge fund Regal Partners, saying that the proposal
September 25, 2024Australia has urged an estimated 15,000 of its citizens living in Lebanon to leave, flagging a risk Beirut airport may close and the difficulty of evacuating large numbers if the
September 26, 2024
Australia's Qantas Airways said rolling aircraft maintenance engineer strikes that began on Thursday in Melbourne and are set to continue for two weeks across the country are not expected
September 26, 2024
Australia's No.2 casino operator, Star Entertainment, posted a second straight multi-billion-dollar annual loss as it wrote down the value of venues and
September 26, 2024
Job vacancies in Australia fell for a ninth straight quarter in the three months to end-August with declines spread across most industries as demand for labour cooled.
September 26, 2024
Naval vessels from New Zealand and Australia sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, according to a statement from New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins
September 26, 2024
Australia's two dominant grocery chains have declared interests in more than 150 unrealised development sites, the antitrust regulator said, adding it was investigating
September 26, 2024
Australia and China agreed to cooperate further on investment, trade and decarbonisation, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Friday during a rare visit to Beijing where
September 26, 2024
Shares in Australia's no.2 casino operator Star Entertainment slumped over 50% to a record low on Friday, as it resumed trading a day after posting a second straight multi-billion-dollar
September 26, 2024
An Australian court on Friday lifted a ban on a women's only art exhibit at a gallery in the southern state of Tasmania, saying it did not discriminate against men.
September 27, 2024An appeals court says a museum in Australia was within its rights to bar men from a controversial art exhibit for women meant to underscore their exclusion from segments of the male-dominated society
September 27, 2024
Koalas are becoming a common sight in Brisbane during breeding season. In suburban areas, they’re climbing power poles, wandering into traffic, and entering backyards. See what happened when one koala came face to face with a dog.
September 29, 2024
Australia slightly revised down its forecasts for resource and energy export earnings on Monday as lower prices across a broad range of commodities and a stronger
September 29, 2024
Australia has achieved a second consecutive budget surplus, standing at A$15.8 billion ($10.91 billion) for the year to June 2024, the centre-left government said on Sunday, helped
September 29, 2024Australia's home prices rose at a tepid pace in September, with a jump in listings to a three-year high and lower auction clearance rates suggesting the momentum in the red-hot
September 30, 2024
Australian miner BHP expects the world to consume an extra 1 million metric tons of copper per year on average until 2035 due to the adoption of copper-intensive technologies, double the
September 30, 2024
Australia would be the likely winner from a shift in global canola trade flows should China impose tariffs on
October 01, 2024
Wiradjuri elder Nyree Reynolds calls her home west of Sydney the valley of the Bilabula, the Indigenous name for its river.
October 01, 2024
The Australian pilots union said on Tuesday that it has rejected a wage proposal from Qantas Airways for its short haul pilots, days after the company's engineers went on a strike to
October 01, 2024
Australian national broadcaster finds ‘systemic’ racism in workplace
October 01, 2024
Australia’s government says a code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after research found that three-in-four people suffer some form of sexual violence through the platforms
October 01, 2024
While a vast majority of the 1,312 NHL games through June will take place in North America, the spotlight this season is on international play
October 01, 2024
An Australian court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that found ANZ violated disclosure rules in a A$2.5 billion ($1.7 billion) share placement nearly a decade earlier, dismissing
October 02, 2024
Australia has organised hundreds of airline seats for its citizens to leave Lebanon, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday, as she urged the many thousands
October 02, 2024
Australian lender ANZ and Indonesia's Gunawan family are considering selling a combined controlling interest in Jakarta-listed Bank Pan
October 03, 2024
Australian authorities said on Friday they would deploy more police personnel and tighten security measures ahead of pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney and Melbourne on
October 03, 2024
Australian lender ANZ said on Friday it will pay a combined sum of A$99 million ($67.76 million) for the settlement of two class actions brought against it in 2020.
October 03, 2024
U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co has become a substantial shareholder in Star Entertainment, an exchange filing showed, as shares of the embattled Australian casino operator have fallen
October 04, 2024
Headwinds, hunger and ‘a very close call’ with a kangaroo: Lachlan Morton sets fastest time cycling around Australia
October 04, 2024
The navies of Britain, Australia and the U.S. were able to control uncrewed ships in Australia while sitting more than 10,000 miles away in Portugal as part of a series of military
October 04, 2024
Tellurian shareholders have voted in favor of the U.S. LNG developer's proposed $1.2 billion acquisition by Australian energy producer Woodside Energy Group, the company said on Friday.
October 04, 2024
Australia started evacuating its nationals from Lebanon via Cyprus on Saturday, in the first large-scale operation to get citizens
October 05, 2024
Iran's foreign ministry has summoned the Australian ambassador in Tehran over what it called his country's biased stance regarding Iran's attack on Israel, Iranian news agency Tasnim
October 06, 2024
A wayward koala led police on a low-speed, early morning chase through a Sydney train station, video released on Tuesday showed, surprising commuters in the city.
October 08, 2024CCTV footage captured a koala roaming around Sydney train station in Australia. According to Transport for NSW, it eventually headed towards the nearby National Park. The Save Sydney's Koala advocacy group says that "bad development decisions" are "forcing koalas onto the roads and into urban areas" in South West Sydney. The animal is endangered in the area.
October 08, 2024Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese apologizes for ‘hurtful’ Tourette’s syndrome jibe
October 09, 2024
China will resume imports of Australian lobster by year-end, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, marking the end of a four-year diplomatic fight that
October 10, 2024
A British YouTuber and rapper known as Yung Filly has been charged with raping and choking a woman in a hotel room following an Australian music performance
October 10, 2024He told his mother there was ‘no way’ he’d meet someone in Australia. Then he fell in love at first sight
October 11, 2024
A video in New Zealand has emerged of what police believe to be fugitive Thomas Callam Phillips with his three children. Phillips has been evading police for three years since disappearing with his children Ember, Maverick and Jayda – now 8, 9 and 11 – into the rugged wilderness of the country’s North Island during a bitter family split in December 2021. He is wanted by police on a list of charges, including allegations that he robbed a bank in May 2023 with an unnamed female accomplice.
October 11, 2024
An Australian state police chief has apologized to the Jewish community after a sergeant allegedly performed an outlawed Nazi salute
October 12, 2024Australia's government said on Sunday it would spend an extra A$95 million ($64.13 million) to protect against a destructive bird flu strain that has spread through bird and mammal
October 13, 2024
Australia's TPG Telecom said on Monday it would carve out its fibre and fixed network infrastructure assets in a sale to Macquarie and pension fund Aware Super-owned
October 13, 2024
Australia's conservative opposition coalition has pulled ahead of the Labor government for the first time since the May 2022 election, while ratings of Prime Minister
October 13, 2024
Virgin Australia said on Monday it had recorded its second consecutive annual profit and a 6.8% year-on-year increase in revenue, putting it in a stronger financial position as it looks to
October 14, 2024
Nearly a million Australian households are struggling to secure enough food, with parents skipping meals or going entire days without food to shield children from hunger, a report
October 14, 2024
Australia is planning to reduce bank card surcharges, including the elimination of transaction fees on debit cards, the government said on Monday, as the use of cash declines in the
October 14, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese launched a new building programme to address a critical housing shortage on Tuesday, the same day news of his plans to
October 15, 2024
Australia's central bank is not concerned that inflation expectations could become de-anchored in the near-term, a top official said on Wednesday, although policymakers remained
October 15, 2024
The U.S. dollar firmed on Wednesday, hitting an 11-week high, as investors ruled out a hefty interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve at the next
October 16, 2024
Australia said on Wednesday it would invest billions of dollars over the next two decades to expand a shipyard in Western Australia that would become the maintenance hub for its
October 16, 2024
Chinese EV maker Zeekr's has begun sales of its first model for Australia - one of two slated for 2024 and both will also launch in New Zealand later this year as it seeks to make
October 16, 2024
Australian dollar debt sales, running at the fastest clip on record, are starting to hit the brakes as capital markets hunker down for the U.S. election, according
October 16, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is being criticized for buying a multimillion dollar waterfront home during a national housing crisis with federal elections only months away
October 16, 2024
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus said on Thursday it has committed A$490 million ($327.96 million) to Australia's MA Financial Group's real estate credit vehicle in a bid to fund the
October 17, 2024Australian employment beat forecasts for a sixth straight month in September, while the jobless rate held steady, reinforcing the view that the labour market remains tight as market
October 17, 2024
Beaches in Sydney including the iconic Bondi were closed to bathers on Thursday after hundreds of black balls suspected to be toxic washed up on the
October 17, 2024In a refrigerated room, around two dozen staff in hats, gloves and blue plastic aprons carve and pack carcasses into boxes within minutes of their
October 17, 2024
King Charles III and Queen Camilla have arrived in Sydney on the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade
October 17, 2024
Australian troubled casino operator Star Entertainment reversed its course to drop on Friday as trading resumed a day after New South Wales gaming regulator said the
October 17, 2024
King Charles visits Australia as the country puts its republic debate on hold
October 18, 2024
U.S. bomber aircraft conducting strikes on underground bunkers in Yemen this week flew through Australian air space in a demonstration of military interoperability
October 18, 2024Beaches in Sydney re-opened on Saturday for swimmers after authorities cleared thousands of black pollution balls washed ashore, which testing found to be formed from chemicals
October 19, 2024Australia has appointed Britain's King Charles to the honorary ranks of admiral of the navy, field marshal of the army and marshal of the air force, ahead of a fleet review on
October 19, 2024
King Charles was accused of "genocide" by an Indigenous senator at Australia's Parliament House on Monday, moments after he delivered a speech in which he paid his "respects to
October 20, 2024
WiseTech Global said on Monday it was reviewing a "full range of matters" concerning its CEO after media reports made allegations about his personal life including
October 20, 2024A court on Monday ordered Australia's Qantas Airways to pay a combined A$170,000 ($114,000) to three baggage handlers it unlawfully sacked in 2020, implying a big
October 21, 2024
An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia’s parliament
October 21, 2024
Australia said on Tuesday it would bolster air and missile defence in a A$7 billion ($4.7 billion) deal with the United States to acquire SM-2 IIIC and SM-6 long-range missiles for
October 21, 2024Photo portraits of King Charles are available in Australia under a little-known government policy that says every citizen there can request, and receive, a portrait of their monarch
October 21, 2024
King Charles III is ending the first visit to Australia by a reigning British monarch in 13 years with anti-monarchists hoping the debate surrounding his journey is a step toward an Australian citizen becoming head of state
October 22, 2024
A legal battle between the Australian CEO of logistics software maker WiseTech and a woman reported by local media to be his former lover has been settled, a court filing showed,
October 22, 2024
Westpac Banking Corp, Australia's third-largest lender by market value, said on Tuesday its 2024 net profit would take a A$123 million ($82.26 million) hit due to impacts from certain
October 22, 2024
King Charles visited a skin cancer clinic in Sydney on Tuesday where he met cancer survivors and researchers working on cures for the disease.
October 22, 2024
Shares of Qantas Airways hit an all-time high on Wednesday after Jefferies analysts hiked their price target on Australia's flag carrier, on the back of
October 23, 2024
An Indigenous senator has intensified her criticism of King Charles III, again accusing the British monarch of complicity in the “genocide” against Australia’s First Peoples and declaring she will not be “shut down.”
October 23, 2024
Asset manager HMC Capital will acquire Global Switch Australia in A$1.94 billion ($1.29 billion) deal, the Australian firm said on Thursday, as the company looks to
October 23, 2024Australia's Westpac said on Thursday Peter Herbert will be appointed as acting chief executive for its business and wealth segment, effective Nov. 5.
October 23, 2024
A restaurateur has pleaded guilty to displaying a Nazi symbol during a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney earlier in October
October 24, 2024
Australia's WiseTech Global said on Thursday that Chief Executive Richard White will step down, an announcement that follows media reports of allegations about his personal
October 24, 2024
Australia's flag carrier Qantas Airways said on Friday it does not expect an impact on customers from a strike planned by some of its engineering work groups ahead of the annual general
October 24, 2024
Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways on Friday raised its first-half domestic revenue expectations and said it was on track to restart dividend
October 24, 2024
Australia and the United Kingdom have deepened ties by agreeing to collaborate on climate change and energy initiatives, aiming to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, while also reaffirming their mutual commitment to develop nuclear submarines for both nations under the AUKUS treaty
October 25, 2024
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected accusations from Beijing that his country is “plagued by systemic racism and hate crimes” after an Australian diplomat led a group of Western nations in renewing concerns about human rights violations in China
October 25, 2024
Qantas Airways is not opposed to Qatar Airways' proposal to take a 25% stake in Australia's No. 2 carrier Virgin Australia, Qantas' chair and CEO said on Friday, adding its investment plan
October 25, 2024
Australia's central bank recorded its fourth straight year of accounting losses in 2024, it said on Friday, as the legacy of its pandemic interventions lingers on
October 25, 2024
A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies
October 25, 2024
Top U.N. officials say more than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war
October 25, 2024
Steven Alderson was bullied at school for being autistic. Decades on, a historic win has made him an Australian national hero
October 26, 2024
The conservative Liberal National Party in Australia's Queensland state was on track on Sunday to end almost a decade of centre-left Labor government, after a general election held
October 26, 2024Australian lender ANZ Group said on Monday its 2024 second half profit will take a A$196 million ($129.63 million) hit after taxes due to impacts from the acquisition of Suncorp's banking
October 27, 2024
At one of the world's biggest bulk export ports in Western Australia, shippers safely completed the first transfer of ammonia from one vessel to another last month
October 27, 2024
A woman has appeared in an Australian court charged with assaulting the Indigenous senator who shouted at King Charles III during a royal reception last week
October 28, 2024Woman survives snake bite during days lost in Australia’s Snowy Mountains
October 28, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday defended free flight upgrades he received from Qantas following allegations he had liaised directly with the
October 29, 2024
A 11-year-old boy died and other children suffered serious injuries after a car crashed through the fence of a primary school in Melbourne on Tuesday.
October 29, 2024Australians have lost trust in government and many are likely to resist drastic health measures in a future pandemic, the first review of the country's COVID-19
October 29, 2024
Australia's Lynas Rare Earths reported a nearly 6% decline in first-quarter revenue on Wednesday due to falling prices for strategic minerals and muted demand.
October 29, 2024
Australian grocer Woolworths warned first-half profit from its main Australian food division would dip as a hunt for bargains and intense scrutiny of
October 29, 2024
Australia said it was boosting its missile defence capability amid "significant concerns" about China's test of an ICBM in the South Pacific, and will bolster
October 30, 2024
Australian police say they have recovered more than 40,000 stolen limited-edition coins based on the hit children’s animated series “Bluey.”
October 30, 2024ANZ Group has unveiled an organisational overhaul, with an aim to streamline operations and enhance data analytics, the Australian lender said on Wednesday as it sought to address
October 30, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's office said on Wednesday he had "not ever" called the chief executive of airline Qantas seeking flight upgrades, denying an allegation
October 30, 2024
Australia's Coles saw a slowdown in comparable sales in the first quarter on Thursday due to lower shelf prices for its products, even as it beat market estimates for
October 30, 2024
Australia must brace for longer and more dangerous fire seasons and marine heatwaves in the years ahead, while swift changes in weather patterns might result in more
October 30, 2024
Australia's biggest banks are expected to report lower annual earnings next week, with investors focused on whether intense competition in lending and the rising costs of
October 31, 2024
Australian golfer Jeffrey Guan vows to ‘be back’ after freak accident leaves him blind in one eye
October 31, 2024
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke took off his guitar and left the stage during his solo concert in Melbourne, Australia, after being heckled by a pro-Palestinian protester.
October 31, 2024
Australian household spending fell in September as consumers cut back on clothing and cars, data showed on Friday, further confirmation that billions of dollars in
November 01, 2024
An Australian judge has ruled that anti-immigration party leader Sen. Pauline Hanson breached a racial anti-discrimination law by crudely telling Pakistan-born Sen. Mehreen Faruqi to return to her homeland
November 01, 2024
Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween
November 01, 2024
A 5.48 metre (18 ft) Australian crocodile that held the world record as the largest crocodile in captivity has died, a wildlife sanctuary said on Saturday.
November 02, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that his government planned to cut student loans for around three million Australians by 20%, wiping off around A$16 billion
November 02, 2024
No.2 Australian mortgage lender Westpac said on Monday annual profit dipped as costs associated with a technology overhaul outweighed an improved loan
November 03, 2024
Sydney Marathon named as seventh major race in elite circuit
November 04, 2024
Australia has cancelled a multi-billion dollar military satellite project with Lockheed Martin, with a Department of Defence statement on Monday saying the military will instead
November 04, 2024
Australian police on Monday searched the PwC Australia office in Sydney as part of a probe into a former partner who leaked confidential government tax plans to the
November 04, 2024
Australia will spend A$600 million ($395 million) on defence reserve recruitment and extending a cash bonus to retain troops as the centre-left Albanese government
November 04, 2024
Chris Martin falls into hole in stage during Coldplay gig in Australia
November 04, 2024Australia and India's foreign ministers said on Tuesday they were confident the Quad group of the U.S., India, Australia and Japan would continue to cooperate in
November 05, 2024
Australia's defence minister said on Tuesday a defence satellite program was scrapped because of the threat of new technology that can "shoot satellites out of the
November 05, 2024
Australia’s foreign minister says she raised allegations with her Indian counterpart that India has targeted Sikh activists in Canada
November 05, 2024
Australian Rules umpire suspended after dressing up as Osama bin Laden at party
November 05, 2024Global stock markets rallied on Friday, with Wall Street crowning November with its biggest monthly gain in a year on post-election growth
November 29, 2024
A semi-submersible carrying 5 tons of cocaine from Colombia to Australia was seized in an international operation that netted six ‘narco subs’ and 1,400 metric tons of drugs in seven weeks.
November 28, 2024
Since Meta whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing the tech giant knew of social media's mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders
November 29, 2024
Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s
November 28, 2024
Big Tech corporations on Friday hit out at a landmark Australian law that bans youths under the age of 16 from accessing social media, saying the law was "rushed" through parliament
November 29, 2024
Australians reacted on Friday with a mixture of anger and relief to a social media ban on children under 16 that the government says is world-leading
November 28, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pivoted to election mode, hoping to win back voter confidence that his government can tackle high living costs,
November 29, 2024
Virgin Australia can start selling tickets for new Qatar Airways-operated flights between Doha and four Australian capital cities following an interim approval by the country's competition
November 29, 2024
A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off the coast of Samoa last month as a result of human error, a government-initiated inquiry found on Friday.
November 29, 2024A military investigation has found mistakes by members of the crew caused a New Zealand navy ship to plow into a Samoan reef and sink in October
November 29, 2024
Home prices in Australia will rise steadily over the coming two years, driven by tight supply and an expected modest easing cycle from the Reserve Bank of
November 29, 2024
Australia's central bank is finally getting a major shake-up of its policy-making process that adds extra uncertainty to when it might deliver interest rate relief to
November 28, 2024
Australia approved on Thursday a social media ban for children aged under 16 after an emotive debate that has gripped the nation, setting a benchmark
November 28, 2024
Software testers hired by Australia's government to determine how to enforce the world's first national teen social media ban have worked on defence
November 28, 2024
Australia has approved a social media ban for children aged under 16, one of the world's toughest regulations targeting Big Tech.
November 28, 2024
By Ron Bousso and Marwa Rashad LONDON - Woodside Energy expects to bring several partners into its Louisiana liquefied natural gas development by the time the company gives the financial go-ahead to
November 28, 2024
‘Narco sub’ bound for Australia seized in massive international operation that netted 1,400 metric tons of drugs
November 28, 2024
Australia's top central banker said on Thursday that core inflation was too high to allow for rate cuts in the near term, all but ruling out relief for borrowers at
November 28, 2024
The head of Australia's national intelligence office said an "emerging axis" of countries providing support to Russia, including China, Iran and North Korea, was "
November 06, 2024Australia’s highest court has ruled that migrants can’t be forced by law to wear electronic tracking bracelets or to comply with curfews
November 06, 2024
Emperor penguin turns up on Australian beach, thousands of miles from home
November 06, 2024
Coty on Wednesday said it expects annual profit to come in at the low end of its forecast, as weak demand for beauty products in major markets such as the United States and Australia
November 06, 2024
The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what it calls a world-leading package
November 06, 2024
Australia's top central banker said on Thursday it was hard to judge the inflation implications of the U.S. election for Australia at this stage, but policymakers would be watching
November 06, 2024
The Australian government announced on Thursday what it described as world-leading legislation that would set an age limit of 16 years for children to start using social media, and hold platforms responsible for ensuring compliance
November 07, 2024
Mysterious black balls that washed up on Sydney beach were foul-smelling mini ‘fatbergs’
November 07, 2024
Australian telecom watchdog has fined Optus A$12 million ($7.99 million) for failing to provide emergency call services to thousands during a nationwide outage last year, the regulator
November 07, 2024
ANZ, Australia's No. 4 lender by mortgages, said annual profit tumbled as fierce competition ate away margins while late loan repayments surged,
November 07, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday his government would introduce this month the legislation to ban social media for children under 16 years.
November 08, 2024
A self-described Nazi has become the first person in Australia to be sentenced to prison for performing an outlawed salute when he was ordered by a magistrate to spend one month behind bars
November 08, 2024A technical outage crippled all of Australia's major airports on Friday, leading to long queues at international terminals after the disruption of automated kiosks for identity and
November 08, 2024
A Qantas Airways plane bound for Brisbane suffered an engine failure after take-off on Friday and circled for a short period of time before returning safely to Sydney Airport, the
November 08, 2024
Australia’s states and territories have unanimously backed a world-first national plan to ban children younger than 16 from most forms of social media
November 08, 2024
Greece's anti-drug authorities have arrested two Greek men suspected of being part of a transnational crime ring exporting crystal meth and MDMA to Australia, police said.
November 08, 2024Australia's world-beating labour market is one of the main obstacles stopping the country's central bank from joining global peers in reversing the most aggressive
November 28, 2024
Seaman rescued after more than 20 hours at sea off Australia’s east coast
November 09, 2024
Staff at Australia's parliament made 30 complaints of serious workplace offences such as sexual assault over nine months, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Sunday, as the
November 10, 2024
Members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) arrived on Sunday with their warship docking at Banyuwangi in East Java, Indonesia for a joint military exercise,
November 10, 2024Australian battery maker Novonix said on Monday it had signed a binding off-take agreement with automaker Stellantis to supply high-performance synthetic graphite material to its cell
November 10, 2024
Australia's HMC Capital will press ahead with the initial public offering (IPO) of its data centres business that would be worth $A4 billion ($2.64 billion),
November 11, 2024Australia is in the final stages of talks with ANZ Group over a deal to maintain the bank's branches across the Pacific, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Monday, a
November 11, 2024
Australian consumer sentiment rose sharply in November for a second straight month, reaching a 2-1/2-year high with the mood on the economy and finances finally turning optimistic,
November 11, 2024
The Australian government said on Tuesday it would provide up to A$80 million ($52.6 million) to airline Regional Express Holdings to keep its regional routes running
November 11, 2024Thousands in Australia line up to see stinking ‘corpse flower’ that only blooms once a decade
November 12, 2024
A top New Zealand central banker said on Thursday that U.S.
November 27, 2024
Australia's employment growth slowed in October after a strong run, but the jobless rate stayed low and underlying trends remained relatively healthy, suggesting there
November 14, 2024
Australia's corporate watchdog said on Thursday its focus next year will be on protecting consumers bearing the brunt of rising cost-of-living pressures by clamping down on wrongdoing
November 14, 2024
An Australian consumer protection law firm has launched a class action lawsuit against the country's top two supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, alleging the retailers promoted misleading
November 14, 2024
Any move by the Trump administration to change U.S. climate policy could benefit Australia's ambitions to attract greater investment to its critical minerals and
November 15, 2024
Australian grocers Woolworths and Coles said on Friday they would defend class action proceedings commenced by a law firm in federal court over alleged misleading
November 14, 2024
Commonwealth Bank of Australia reported first-quarter cash earnings slightly ahead of market consensus on Wednesday, helped by improved volumes in its home lending and
November 12, 2024
The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach
November 22, 2024
A rugby player called Harry Potter is set to make his debut for Australia on Sunday
November 22, 2024
The defence ministers of Australia, Japan and the United States will meet in the Australian city of Darwin on Sunday to discuss continued
November 15, 2024
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his relationship with U.S.
November 16, 2024
Japanese troops will begin regular deployments in northern Australia as part of military cooperation with Australia and the U.S., Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on
November 17, 2024
The Australian Senate is debating a ban on children younger than 16 from social media after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly supported the age restriction
November 27, 2024
Australia's corporate watchdog on Monday launched civil penalty proceedings against National Australia Bank, the country's second-largest lender, for failing to respond to hundreds of
November 17, 2024
Australia's Senate on Monday censured an Indigenous woman parliamentarian over her protest against King Charles during his visit to the parliament last month when she
November 18, 2024
Australia's central bank has found no evidence that monetary policy is more potent in the country than elsewhere given households have ways to manage interest rate risks, even
November 18, 2024
Australian police on Monday charged former radio show host Alan Jones with 24 assault and sexual touching offences, indictments that followed
November 17, 2024A police officer who shocked a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a Taser was found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court
November 27, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he told U.S.
November 13, 2024
China's relationship with Australia has achieved a turnaround and the two countries are maintaining a positive momentum of development, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Australian
November 18, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met China's President Xi Jinping in Brazil on Monday, as Beijing seeks to promote Australia as a model for trading with
November 18, 2024
Australia's competition regulator said on Monday it is seeking views on the Macquarie-backed telecommunications group Vocus' A$5.25 billion ($3.39 billion) takeover of local telecom
November 18, 2024
The United Nations' annual climate conference continued Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small
November 13, 2024
Australia's Sayona Mining will buy U.S.-based Piedmont Lithium in an all-stock deal that will consolidate its Canadian operations and
November 19, 2024
Australia and Turkey are in a standoff over which country is better suited to host United Nations climate change talks in 2026, with
November 19, 2024
Wesfarmers-owned Bunnings, the country's biggest home improvement chain, breached the privacy of thousands of customers by using facial recognition technology without gaining
November 19, 2024
Australia's official statistician has been overestimating the cost of child care in its consumer price index for the past year, but the error will not result in any changes to
November 19, 2024
The mandate for Australia's sovereign wealth fund will grow to include domestic housing, energy and infrastructure in a major revamp unveiled on Wednesday that
November 20, 2024China has regained its place as the second-biggest bilateral donor to the Pacific Islands, displacing the United States and targeting its spending to win influence, a Lowy Institute
November 20, 2024Australia said it was concerned that one in ten cybersecurity incidents last year involved critical infrastructure, with state-sponsored actors targeting the country's government,
November 20, 2024
Major Australian banks have partnered with BioCatch in launching a pilot of an anti-scam project, aimed at reducing frauds in banking payments, the Israeli digital fraud detection startup
November 20, 2024
Australia's HMC Capital on Thursday unveiled plans to launch DigiCo REIT, a new digital infrastructure real estate trust focused on data centers, in the country's largest
November 20, 2024Australia's centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5
November 21, 2024
GQG Partners, which has a near 20% stake in India's Adani Group, saw its Australia-listed shares plunge 23% on Thursday after Gautam Adani, the conglomerate's chair, was indicted in the
November 21, 2024
An Australian teenager died on Thursday after drinking alcohol contaminated with methanol in Laos, Thai police and Australian Prime
November 21, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will visit Tuvalu, Palau and Marshall Islands in the Pacific, the presidential office said on Friday.
November 22, 2024
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, has criticised Australia's proposed law to ban social media for children under 16 and fine social media platforms of up
November 21, 2024
India's Adani Group, whose billionaire chairman has been indicted for fraud by U.S. prosecutors, is facing accusations of racism at its Australian coal unit
November 22, 2024
Australian police said they arrested three climate change activists on Saturday when protesters tried to disrupt the movement of vessels at the country's biggest coal port.
November 23, 2024Indonesia has agreed to return to Australia the five remaining members of the so-called Bali Nine drug smuggling ring who are currently serving life sentences in the Southeast
November 23, 2024Australia's government said on Sunday it had dropped plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online.
November 23, 2024Australia's banking regulator on Monday said it would retain a 3% serviceability buffer for home loan lending because of high household debt, persistent cost-of-living pressures, a
November 24, 2024
Hundreds of nurses and midwives across Ramsay Health Care's 17 hospitals in Australia's New South Wales will go on a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, demanding a pay hike and
November 25, 2024Anglo American agreed on Monday to sell its remaining Australian steelmaking coal mines to Peabody Energy for up to $3.78 billion in
November 25, 2024
Australia plans to require social media platforms to act to prevent online harms to users such as bullying, predatory behavior and algorithms pushing destructive content
November 14, 2024
‘Only in Australia’: Couple comes home to find koala in bed
November 14, 2024
The Australian government's plan to ban children from social media to protect them from harm has won almost universal political support
November 15, 2024
Why Australian zoo is asking Sydney residents to catch deadly funnel-web spiders
November 15, 2024
Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month
November 18, 2024
An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase has appeared in a Japanese court nearly two years after her arrest and said she was tricked into carrying them as part of an online romance scam
November 18, 2024Retired Sydney radio broadcaster and former Australian national rugby coach Alan Jones has been charged with multiple sex crimes against males over two decades
November 18, 2024Singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is an icon in Australia but a cult figure in the rest of the world
November 18, 2024
Two 19-year-old Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning after apparently consuming tainted drinks in neighboring Laos
November 19, 2024
Deputy injured, 3-year-old and suspect found dead after domestic violence incident in Lawson
November 19, 2024Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction
November 19, 2024
Australian communications minister says the government won’t force social media users to hand over personal information to tech companies, as children younger than 16 are set to be banned from the platforms
November 20, 2024
Australia introduces bill to limit under-16s from using social media with tech companies facing huge fines
November 21, 2024
Legislation for the world's first legal ban on children under 16 using social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament
November 21, 2024
A ban on New Zealanders wearing or displaying symbols of gang affiliation in public has taken effect, with police officers arresting a man for breaking the law three minutes later
November 21, 2024
An Australian teenager and a British woman have died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister said was every parent’s nightmare
November 21, 2024
An Australian Cabinet minister has rejected X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s allegation that the government intends to control all Australians' access to the internet through legislation that would ban young children from social media
November 22, 2024
The Australian government has proposed a ban on children under 16 from using social media. The ban is expected to apply to services including TikTok, X, Instagram and Snapchat, though a full list has not been released. The legislation follows several high-profile cases of children taking their own lives citing online bullying and complaints from parents about the pressure their children face to be online. Many parents and pro-ban campaigners have lauded the bill as a long-overdue measure to hold tech companies accountable for the tools Australian children use online. However, critics say the proposed ban is a blunt instrument that will reduce teens’ access to support networks and create greater risks for those who defy the ban. CNN's Hanako Montgomery has the report.
November 22, 2024
Australia moved closer on Wednesday to banning social media for children under 16 after the parliament's lower house passed a bill even as Alphabet's
November 26, 2024
Kayaker’s leg amputated in 20-hour ordeal trapped between rocks on Australia river
November 23, 2024
Top-ranked Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini won their singles matches to lift defending champion Italy past Australia 2-0 and back into the Davis Cup final
November 23, 2024
Australia’s government has withdrawn a bill that would give a media watchdog power to monitor digital platforms and require them to keep records about misinformation and disinformation on their networks
November 24, 2024An advocate for major social media platforms has told Australia's Parliament that a plan to ban children younger than 16 from the sites should be delayed rather than being rushed to approval this week
November 25, 2024
Reporting by The Associated Press about abusive culture in Oregon State’s volleyball program led to an outpouring of similar stories from the coach’s homeland of Australia
November 25, 2024
China's Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian said on Tuesday the United States' policy on trade with China and other countries will have an impact on relations between
November 26, 2024Google and Facebook-owner Meta Platforms urged the Australian government on Tuesday to delay a bill that will ban most forms of social media for children under 16,
November 26, 2024
Australia's consumer price inflation rate stayed at a three-year low in October as government rebates drove electricity and rent prices down, though core inflation picked up in a
November 27, 2024
An Australian police officer who fatally shocked a 95-year-old care home resident with a Taser gun was found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday.
November 27, 2024Australia’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years from social media
November 26, 2024
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