SYDNEY, September 8 (Reuters): Two Australian foreign correspondents were rushed out of China for their safety with the help of Australian consular officials after being questioned by China's Ministry
CANBERRA, SEPTEMBER 7 (IANS): Australian conservation groups warned on Monday that the country's World Heritage-listed wilderness areas were at risk of being tarnished, including the Great Barrier Reef
MELBOURNE, August 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Queensland has become the first state in Australia to criminalise so-called gay conversion therapy after regional lawmakers voted on Thursday to make the
SYDNEY, August 4 (Reuters): Australia has closed the national park home to its revered indigenous site of Uluru after some in the community blocked an access route for fear that visitors could carry in cor
MELBOURNE, August 2 (Reuters): Australia's second-most populous state of Victoria declared a state of disaster on Sunday and imposed a nightly curfew for the capital Melbourne as part of its harshest m
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters): The United States and close ally Australia held high-level talks on China and agreed on the need to uphold a rules-based global order, but the Australian foreign minister str
SYDNEY, July 9 (Reuters): Australia said on Thursday it was suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in response to a new security law imposed there and announced measures to attract businesses fro
SYDNEY, July 8 (Reuters): Five million Australians face a heavy police clampdown from midnight on Wednesday to contain a flare-up of coronavirus cases, with checkpoints to be set up around Melbourne to ens
SYDNEY, June 11 (Reuters): Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday he would not be intimidated by "coercion" after China restricted some Australian exports and urged Chinese tourists and s
SYDNEY, JUNE 7 (IANS): A 10 foot-long great white shark on Sunday killed a surfer in Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state, police said.
The attack took place off Salt Beach, 800 km north of
SYDNEY, June 3 (Reuters): Learning Australian bush survival skills is becoming popular as city folk turn to nature with the easing of the coronavirus lockdown, organisers of a course outside Sydney said.