If Tourism Australia isn’t already preparing an extensive international advertising campaign called “The Australia Effect” I’d be very surprised. The Australia Effect is a phenomenon, and we should be ...

High-profile Australians celebrated alongside more than 600 civilians who have changed lives and the country Astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg named Australian of the Year for 2026 Follow our Australia ...

The superpower still plays a critical role in the Pacific, but there will be no going back to the liberal world order even after this presidential term ends, analysts agree Get our breaking news email ...

Australia banned social media apps for under 16s in December, and, a month later, there's been a mixed reaction from teens, experts and tech firms. As many teens find ways to circumvent the law, major ...

A Brazilian au pair testified that her employer planned a double murder using a man he lured from a BDSM website as a patsy to avoid a divorce, prosecutors alleged at the first day of his trial ...

The bushfires ignited as an intense heat wave swept southern Australia, creating the most dangerous conditions since the "Black Summer" blazes from late 2019 to early 2020. Bushfires across the ...

Three decades ago, almost 650,000 firearms − about one-third of all privately owned guns in Australia – were surrendered, loaded into trucks and destroyed. In exchange for these firearms, part of a ...

Australia already has some of the world’s toughest gun laws, but the Bondi mass shooting could lead to even tougher rules as the realization spreads that they aren’t strong enough to prevent bloodshed ...

When and how ancient humans reached what is now Australia and New Guinea has been a long – and hotly contested – discussion. Now, the results of a genetic study suggests it occurred at least 60,000 ...

Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday, joining the leaders of France, Britain and Canada in signaling they would do so. His remarks followed weeks ...

After similar announcements by France, Britain and Canada, Australia said it would act at the United Nations General Assembly session next month. By Victoria Kim Reporting from Sydney, Australia ...

Over the past two weeks, leaders from around the world headed to Southeast Asia for two prominent gatherings—the first trilateral summit between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ...