The glowing algae were spotted in Jervis Bay, New South Wales.

He became the leader of the government in the Senate in 2017.

Hundreds of police have disrupted plans for an anti-racism rally in downtown Sydney, but protest organizers vow that other rallies will continue around Australia over the weekend despite warnings of the coronavirus risk

Australia’s national news agency will continue with new owners, the board confirmed Friday, just weeks before it was due to be shut down

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses have lost power, buildings have been battered, roofs were torn off and trees uprooted as a vast stretch of the west Australian coast was whipped or a second day by a severe storm

A man has been charged with the death in an apparent gay hate crime.

The government has been forced to delay the 2021 budget.

Australia would be the first country to force tech giants to pay for its news.

The Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, bring a spectacular light show to homebound residents of Hobart, Tasmania.

George Pell is the most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse.

An Israeli teacher is wanted for the alleged abuse of children in Australia.

Authorities in Australia are asking for the public's help in investigating the death of a teacher they believe was tied to a chair before being hit and killed by a truck.

An allegedly drunken driver has been charged with 20 offenses including manslaughter after a SUV struck seven children on a Sydney sidewalk, killing four and seriously injuring a fifth

The combination of rain clouds and dust storm resulted in brown rain in Victoria.

The death toll jumped to at least 18 as the fire spreads to areas as large as Connecticut and New Jersey combined.

Tens of thousands of residents and tourists across Australia have been urged to evacuate because of massive bushfires.

Thousands of koalas are feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney, further diminishing Australia's iconic marsupial, while the fire danger increased in the country’s east as temperatures soared

A quick-thinking police sergeant rushed to the aid of a choking toddler in a dramatic Christmas Eve rescue that was captured on surveillance video.

SMore than a dozen were injured after shoppers were trampled as balloons filled with free gifts dropped from the ceiling.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized for family vacation in Hawaii.

Australia has experienced its hottest day on record and temperatures are expected to soar even higher as heatwave conditions embrace most of the country

The rock is sacred to Australian Aboriginals.

Cardinal George Pell, 78, was sentenced to six years in prison in March.

Wildfires have left a firefighter seriously injured and destroyed several homes in an early start to the fire danger season in southeast Australia

The report finds the greatest threat to the reef remains climate change.

A task force has been formed to curb foreign influence at universities.

Video shows that people pinned the suspect, accused of killing one woman and injuring another, to the pavement and put a plastic milk crate over his head.

Raids on journalists' offices and a home in June sparked outrage.

"This would be one of the easiest drugs busts the New South Wales Police has ever made," a police official said.

The van contained methamphetamine valued at more than $140 million.

Police are negotiating with inmates and hoped the standoff could be resolved.

The raid was related to leaked military documents.

A 45-year-old man was in custody following Tuesday's shooting.

Cardinal George Pell is the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse.

A jubilant Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed to get straight back to work after his conservative government's shock election victory that many didn't see coming

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defied pre-election polls.

Christian beliefs rose to prominence in the last days of an election campaign.

A radio station posted an image of the microscopic error on social media.

Political parties have cut loose or chastised several of their own candidates.

Four previous trials were aborted and the fifth jury could not reach a verdict.

Khaled Khayat faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.

A candidate in Australia's looming general election has quit his anti-Muslim political party after video of him groping and propositioning dancers in a U.S. strip club was broadcast on national television

Australian police have charged a man extradited from the United States with murder in the death of a Thai national, whose body was found bound and gagged on the side of a Sydney road

Shooting outside a Melbourne nightclub has left at least two critically wounded.

May 18 appears as the most likely date for Australia's next election at which the conservative government faces an uphill battle to win a third three-year term

Sen. Fraser Anning blamed Muslim immigration for a mass shooting in New Zealand.

Australian police say a British drug suspect was thwarted in his attempt to flee the country for Papua New Guinea on a motorized personal watercraft

A documentary showed Australian politicians meeting with NRA officials.

High-profile Australian journalists face possible prison sentences after being ordered to appear in court next month for allegedly breaching a gag order on reporting about Cardinal George Pell's convictions on charges of sexually molesting two choirboys

Cyclones are frequent in Australia's tropical north and rarely claim lives.