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June 8, 2023, 5:24 AM

Australia plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols in legislation coming next week

Australia's government plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide except for religious, educational and certain other uses
June 8, 2023, 5:24 AM
Australia plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols in legislation next week
June 5, 2023, 4:14 AM

Australian mother imprisoned 20 years pardoned and freed because of doubt she killed her 4 children

An Australian prosecutor says there's reasonable doubt she killed her children.
June 5, 2023, 4:14 AM
May 25, 2023, 11:08 AM

Fire engulfs multi-story building in Sydney

Firefighters warned the blaze was at risk of spreading to nearby buildings.
May 25, 2023, 11:08 AM
Fire engulfs multi-story building in Sydney
May 25, 2023, 1:10 AM

95-year-old Australian woman dies after police shoot her with stun gun; officer faces charges

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
May 25, 2023, 1:10 AM
Australian police officer faces charges for shocking 95-year-old woman with stun gun
May 19, 2023, 4:06 AM

88-year-old Australian doctor freed 7 years after kidnapping by Islamic extremists in West Africa

An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed
May 19, 2023, 4:06 AM
88-year-old Australian free 7 years after kidnapping in West Africa
May 17, 2023, 1:58 AM

7 children battling serious injuries after truck crashes into school bus in Australia

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
May 17, 2023, 1:58 AM
6 children seriously injured when school bus, truck collide in Australia
1 month ago

Woman survives 5 days in Australian bush with just wine and lollipops

A woman in Australia said she survived five days in the wilderness on the only things she had in her car: wine and lollipops.
1 month ago
Woman survives 5 days in Australian bush with just wine and lollipops
1 month ago

Australian government cracks down on smoking and vaping

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
1 month ago
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Australian central bank hikes interest rate to 3.85%

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
1 month ago
Australian central bank hikes interest rate to 3.85%
1 month ago

Search on for Australian overboard on cruise ship in Pacific

The U.S. Coast Guard says it's searching for a cruise ship passenger from Australia in waters south of Hawaii
1 month ago
Search on for Australian overboard on cruise ship in Pacific
1 month ago

Australia plans major overhaul of defenses as China rises

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
1 month ago
Australia plans major overhaul of defenses as China rises
2 months ago

Dame Edna actor Barry Humphries stable in Sydney hospital

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
2 months ago
2 months ago

Australia's most powerful cyclone in 8 years to cross coast

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
2 months ago
Category 4 Cyclone Ilsa lashes northwest Australian coast
2 months ago

Residents flee as cyclone approaches northwest Australia

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

Australia suspends WTO case against China on barley tariffs

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
2 months ago
Australia suspends WTO case against China on barley tariffs
2 months ago

Australian lawmaker breaks ranks to support Indigenous Voice

A senior lawmaker has split from Australia’s opposition party leadership by supporting a proposal to create a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament
2 months ago
Australian lawmaker breaks ranks to support Indigenous Voice
3 months ago

Millions of dead fish wash up amid heat wave in Australia

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
3 months ago
Millions of dead fish wash up amid heat wave in Australia
3 months ago

Australia to buy up to 220 Tomahawk missiles from the US

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
3 months ago
Australia to buy up to 220 Tomahawk missiles from the US
3 months ago

Biden announces nuclear-powered submarines for Australia

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
3 months ago
Biden to announce Australia submarine deal in San Diego
3 months ago

Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines made in the US

Australia will purchase U.S.-manufactured, nuclear-powered attack submarines to modernize its fleet
3 months ago
Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines made in the US
3 months ago

Australia will allow prescription MDMA and magic mushrooms for some people with mental illness

Australia is the first nation to approve the legal use of MDMA and psilocybin, as medication for certain mental health conditions.
3 months ago
What to know about Australia allowing MDMA for some treatment
4 months ago

Australia quietly expels major Russian spy ring, report says

A newspaper says Australia has quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats
4 months ago
Australia quietly expels major Russian spy ring, report says
4 months ago

Australian spy boss details unprecedented espionage danger

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
4 months ago
Australian spy boss details unprecedented espionage danger
4 months ago

Australia adds $300 million in funding for Indigenous pledge

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
4 months ago
Australia adds $300 million in funding for Indigenous pledge
4 months ago

Australia rejects open-pit coal mine near Great Barrier Reef

Australia has rejected a coal mining application based on environmental law for the first time
4 months ago
Australia rejects new coal mine on environmental grounds
4 months ago

Israeli principal on trial in Australia in child sex abuse

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
4 months ago
Israeli principal on trial in Australia in child sex abuse
4 months ago

Teenage girl killed by shark while jet skiing in Australia

Police in Western Australia say a teenage girl was killed in a suspected shark attack in Perth after she jumped from her jet ski
4 months ago
Teenage girl killed by shark while jet skiing in Australia
4 months ago

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

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

Radioactive capsule found in Australia could have been deadly with prolonged exposure, expert says

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.
4 months ago
How found radioactive capsule in Australia posed potentially dangerous threat
4 months ago

Potentially deadly radioactive capsule found in Australia

Radioactive coin-sized capsule could have been deadly with prolonged exposure, expert says.
4 months ago
Potentially deadly radioactive capsule found in Australia
4 months ago

Search continues for missing radioactive capsule in Australia

The health effects of coming into contact with a radioactive capsule could be severe, according to experts.
4 months ago
Search continues for missing radioactive capsule in Australia
4 months ago

Australia mining company sorry for losing radioactive device

A mining corporation has apologized for losing a highly radioactive capsule over a 870-mile stretch of Western Australia
4 months ago
Australia mining company sorry for losing radioactive device
5 months ago

Australia 'deeply troubled' by Chinese espionage case

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun faces espionage allegations in China.
5 months ago
Australia 'deeply troubled' by Chinese espionage case
5 months ago

Australian boy wakes from coma after helicopter collision

Four people died in the helicopter collision.
5 months ago
Australian boy wakes from coma after helicopter collision
5 months ago

Helicopters collide over Australian beach, 4 people dead

One helicopter appeared to have been taking off and the other landing.
5 months ago
Helicopters collide over Australian beach, 4 passengers dead
6 months ago

Australian vandals destroy 30,000-year-old rock art

Australian authorities say vandals have destroyed rock art believed to be some 30,000 years old
6 months ago
Australian vandals destroy 30,000-year-old rock art
6 months ago

Lizards wrestle in Australia's Northern Territory

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.
6 months ago
Lizards wrestle in Australia's Northern Territory
6 months ago

Woman, 23, dies in Australia after falling from cruise ship

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

6 killed, including 2 officers, in Australian ambush, siege

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
6 months ago
2 Australia police, bystander killed in ambush in rural area
6 months ago

Australian jailed in Myanmar applauded in Parliament

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

UK minister says Australian submarines will assure neighbors

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
6 months ago
UK minister says Australian submarines will assure neighbors
6 months ago

Australia reduces national terrorism threat to 'possible'

Australia spy agency says the country has downgraded its terrorism threat level.
6 months ago
7 months ago

Australia ratifies free trade deals with India and Britain

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

Australia to block former military pilots flying for China

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
7 months ago
Australia to block former military pilots flying for China
7 months ago

Australia plays down US B-52 bomber plan that angers China

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
7 months ago
Australia plays down US B-52 bomber plan that angers China
8 months ago

Australia flags new corporate penalties for privacy breaches

Australia has proposed tougher penalties for companies that fail to protect customers’ personal data after two major cybersecurity breaches left millions vulnerable to criminals
8 months ago
Australia flags new corporate penalties for privacy breaches
8 months ago

Australia drops recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Australia has reversed a previous government’s recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
8 months ago
1 year ago

Australian PM gets confronted by local

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is berated by a pensioner during a visit to the pub in front of reporters.
1 year ago
Australian PM gets confronted by local
1 year ago

Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach disappears under big swell

Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach disappeared beneath the waves as a storm system moved through, just after floods battered other parts of Australia.
1 year ago
Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach disappears under big swell
1 year ago

Owl interrupts press conference in Australia

An Australian sign language interpreter got an unexpected gift from an owl—but he removed his jacket and kept going like a pro.
1 year ago
Owl interrupts press conference in Australia