Australia’s prime minister has defended an obscure and longstanding protocol that bars the nation’s parliament from sitting for 15 days following a British monarch’s death

A second Australian state has banned public displays of Nazi symbols

Judith Durham, Australia’s folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died

The Sydney apartment where the bodies of two Saudi sisters were found in June is back on the rental market

Lawmakers considering a bill to lift a 25-year-old ban on legalizing euthanasia.

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia's largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people

Authorities in Austria have declared a civil emergency.

An Australian state has become the first in the country to pass a law banning the public display of Nazi swastikas, as concerns grow about the rate at which local young people are being radicalized

Australia’s new prime minister has held face-to-face meetings with the leaders of the United States, India, Japan and Indonesia during his hectic first two weeks in office

Australia’s central bank has lifted its benchmark interest rate for a second time in five weeks, changing the cash rate to 0.85% from 0.35%

Australia’s center-left Labor Party has secured enough seats to hold an outright majority in the House as vote counting from an election 10 days ago continues

Peter Dutton has been chosen to lead Australia’s conservative opposition.

China and Australia may be ready to thaw their diplomatic relations, which have been sitting in the deepfreeze for years

Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia

The debate over climate change policy may be changing the color of Australian politics

Australia’s defense minister described the move as an “aggressive act.”

He burst into an event that Prime Minister Scott Morrison was attending.

Early voting has begun in Australia’s election.

A man told police he killed American mathematician Scott Johnson in 1988 by pushing the 27-year-old off a Sydney cliff in what prosecutors describe as a gay hate crime

A senior Australian minister is suggesting that China deliberately announced its security pact with the Solomon Islands during an election campaign to undermine her government’s chances of reelection

Australia’s opposition leader has tested positive for COVID-19 in the second week of a campaign ahead of the May 21 federal election

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.

Australia’s government has presented a range of economic measures such as halving the tax on gasoline in a bid to help cushion the impact of rising prices and win votes at elections due by May

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

Australia’s prime minister says he will declare a national emergency following floods across large swathes of the east coast that have claimed 22 lives

Around 500,000 people in Sydney and its surrounding areas have been told to evacuate or prepare to flee floodwaters as torrential rain lashes an extraordinarily long stretch of the Australian east coast

Whole towns are underwater after floodwaters swamped parts of Australia's east coast, forcing people to shelter on roofs and prompting around 1,000 rescues.

Australia lifted its final travel restrictions for fully vaccinated passengers.

The Australian Defense Department says a Chinese navy ship fired a laser at one of its surveillance aircraft, putting the lives of the crew in danger

The No. 1 women's player in the world beat 28-year-old American Danielle Collins in straight sets in the final at Melbourne Park.

Australians have celebrated and protested the anniversary of British colonization of their country on a day officially known as Australia Day but considered by Indigenous activists to be Invasion Day

Lawyers say in court filings that the tennis star tested positive for COVID last month, giving him a vaccine exemption.

Heavy rain and damaging winds are battering the area, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning residents to expect flash flooding and large hailstones.

Strong waves triggered by a cyclone swept a man’s pickup truck into the waters off an Australian beach as locals embarked on a futile attempt to remove the vehicle.

A sixth child has died from his injuries following Thursday's bouncy castle tragedy at an Australian school.

Four people including two children have died after a light aircraft crashed into the sea near the coast of Australia’s Queensland state

"There's no doubt this incident will leave its mark."

Australia says it is sending police, troops and diplomats to the Solomon Islands to help after anti-government demonstrators defied lockdown orders and took to the streets for a second day in violent protests

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is spawning in an explosion of color as the World Heritage-listed natural wonder recovers from life-threatening coral bleaching episodes

Police said they received a tip about 4-year-old Cleo Smith that led to a home in Carnarvon, Australia.

Australian police rescued Cleo Smith, who was missing for 18 days, from a suburban home in Western Australia and a suspect is in custody for her disappearance.

Sydney’s international airport has come alive with tears, embraces and laughter as Australia’s border opened for the first time in 20 months

Australia still requires strict quarantine measures for residents who have been affected by lockdowns since the start of the pandemic.

Australia's second-largest city has endured 262 days, or nearly nine months, of restrictions during six separate lockdowns since March 2020.

The Daintree Rainforest is among four national parks to be handed back to traditional owners in a deal signed with an Australian state government

An Aboriginal man is taking Australia’s government to court.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected Chinese criticism of Australia’s new nuclear submarine alliance with the United States and says he doesn’t mind that President Joe Biden might have forgotten his name

The delta variant has caused a shift in strategy in Australia, which has so far adopted a zero-tolerance policy to coronavirus cases.

A 3-year-old who spent three nights lost in rugged Australian woodland is home.