Australia's government plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide except for religious, educational and certain other uses

An Australian prosecutor says there's reasonable doubt she killed her children.

Firefighters warned the blaze was at risk of spreading to nearby buildings.

A 95-year-old Australian woman has died a week after a police officer shot her with a stun gun in a nursing home as she moved toward him using a walker and carrying a steak knife, in a tragedy that has outraged many Australians

An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed

Seven children remain hospitalized with serious injuries after a truck hit the rear of a school bus on the outskirts of Melbourne in southeastern Australia

A woman in Australia said she survived five days in the wilderness on the only things she had in her car: wine and lollipops.

Australia’s tobacco tax will be increased by billions of dollars over the next four years as the government cracks down on smoking and vaping

Australia’s central bank has surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.85% despite pausing its climb last month and new evidence that inflation is slowing

The U.S. Coast Guard says it's searching for a cruise ship passenger from Australia in waters south of Hawaii

A government-commissioned report says Australia needs to spend more on defense and develop the ability to strike longer-range targets as China’s military buildup challenges regional security

Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, is in a Sydney hospital with complications following hip surgery

Meteorologists say Tropical Cyclone Ilsa is forecast to be the most powerful storm to hit Australia in eight years, bringing wind gusts of up to 196 miles per hour as it crosses the northwest coast

Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals are evacuating from Australia’s remote northwest coast as an intensifying tropical cyclone approaches

Australia has suspended a complaint to the World Trade Organization in a bid to reopen the Chinese market to Australian barley for the first time in three years

A senior lawmaker has split from Australia’s opposition party leadership by supporting a proposal to create a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by depleted oxygen levels in the river after recent floods and hot weather

Australia said it’s planning to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the U.S. State Department approved the sale Friday

President Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia and the United Kingdom have announced that Australia will buy nuclear-powered attack submarines from the U.S. to modernize its fleet

Australia will purchase U.S.-manufactured, nuclear-powered attack submarines to modernize its fleet

Australia is the first nation to approve the legal use of MDMA and psilocybin, as medication for certain mental health conditions.

A newspaper says Australia has quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats

The head of Australia's domestic spy agency says the nation faces an unprecedented threat of espionage and foreign interference with more Australians being targeted by agents than ever before

Fifteen years after the Australian Parliament’s historic apology to its Indigenous people for past wrongs, the government is announcing roughly $300 million in new funding to improve the lives of Australia’s original inhabitants

Australia has rejected a coal mining application based on environmental law for the first time

A former principal at a Jewish girls’ school in the Australian city of Melbourne will go on trial Wednesday on 29 charges of child sex abuse

Police in Western Australia say a teenage girl was killed in a suspected shark attack in Perth after she jumped from her jet ski

Australia phasing out monarchy from bank notes; King Charles III won't appear on $5 bill but expected on coins

The health effects of coming into contact with a radioactive capsule no bigger than a coin that was found in Western Australia could have been severe.

Radioactive coin-sized capsule could have been deadly with prolonged exposure, expert says.

The health effects of coming into contact with a radioactive capsule could be severe, according to experts.

A mining corporation has apologized for losing a highly radioactive capsule over a 870-mile stretch of Western Australia

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun faces espionage allegations in China.

Four people died in the helicopter collision.

One helicopter appeared to have been taking off and the other landing.

Australian authorities say vandals have destroyed rock art believed to be some 30,000 years old

Two grappling sand goannas, a type of lizard, wrestled through an office in Australia's Northern Territory, tumbling out of the doorway and scurrying off.

The body of a 23-year-old woman has been found in the ocean off Australia after she fell overboard from a cruise ship

Six people, including two police officers, were shot and killed after the officers responded to a call at a property in rural Australia and were ambushed

An Australian economist who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar has received a hero’s welcome at Australia’s Parliament House

Britain's top envoy for the Indo-Pacific says Australia’s shift to nuclear-powered submarines will assure its South Pacific neighbors of the UK's commitment to regional security

Australia spy agency says the country has downgraded its terrorism threat level.

Australia’s Parliament has passed bilateral free trade agreements with India and Britain, leaving those partner nations to bring the deals into force

Australia’s defense minister says he has told told the military to review secrecy safeguards in response to concerns that Beijing is recruiting pilots to train the Chinese People’s Liberation Army

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles has played down the significance of a major upgrade of U.S. B-52 bomber facilities planned for northern Australia that has raised China’s ire

Australia has proposed tougher penalties for companies that fail to protect customers’ personal data after two major cybersecurity breaches left millions vulnerable to criminals

Australia has reversed a previous government’s recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is berated by a pensioner during a visit to the pub in front of reporters.

Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach disappeared beneath the waves as a storm system moved through, just after floods battered other parts of Australia.

An Australian sign language interpreter got an unexpected gift from an owl—but he removed his jacket and kept going like a pro.