A man was killed Saturday in a shark attack off Long Reef Beach in Sydney, police in New South Wales said.
Emergency services responded shortly after 10 a.m. (0000 GMT) after reports of a "large" shark attack.
The man's body was recovered from the (...)
The biggest online video game stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong — one of the most-anticipated games of the year.
Thousands of users reported they were unable to buy the game on PC store (...)
Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country's history. Known as "Robodebt", the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid (...)
An Australian man is facing theft charges after police uncovered a "significant" trove of Lego and toys worth $250,000 (£120,800; $163,400) allegedly stolen from department stores in Adelaide.
About 2,500 items, including 1,700 unopened boxes of (...)
A fugitive who allegedly murdered two officers in a small rural town in Australia's Victoria is being helped by some members of the community, police have said.
Dezi Freeman has been on the run since last Tuesday, when police arrived at his (...)
Australia says it will expel Iran's ambassador after alleging the country's government directed antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attacks were "extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression (...)
Tens of thousands of people marched through Australian cities and towns on Sunday, calling for urgent action to save Palestinians facing starvation in Gaza.
Protesters filled streets in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and more than a dozen other cities, (...)
Israel's prime minister accused his Australian counterpart of having "betrayed Israel" and "abandoned" Australia's Jewish community, after days of growing strain between the two countries.
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that history would (...)
An Australian court has fined airline giant Qantas A$90m (£43m; $59m) for illegally sacking more than 1,800 ground workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Australia's Transport Workers' Union said it welcomed the ruling, which it said marked the (...)
RIYADH — Under the patronage of Prince Bader bin Farhan, Minister of Culture and Chairman of the Music Commission's Board of Directors, the Saudi Music Commission announced that the "Marvels of Saudi Orchestra" concert will be held on Friday, Sept. (...)
Australia and Vanuatu have agreed to a 10-year deal, aimed at strengthening security and economic ties, worth A$500m ($328m; £241m).
The so-called Nakamal agreement - the result of months of negotiations - will transform Australia's relationship (...)
Australia has announced a plan to recognize a Palestinian state in September, following similar moves by the UK, France and Canada.
Australia's leader Anthony Albanese said the move will happen at the UN General Assembly and after it had received (...)
When Australia wants to put on a show, it turns to the sweeping expanse of Sydney Harbour, home to the Opera House and the iconic bridge that connects the city with its northern suburbs.
So, when organizers of usually small pro-Palestinian protests (...)
An Australian politician and convicted rapist has resigned from parliament moments before he was to be kicked out, after losing a legal challenge to remain.
Gareth Ward, 44, was last month found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men, aged 18 (...)
An Australian politician convicted of rape is fighting – from his jail cell – to remain a member of the New South Wales (NSW) state parliament.
Gareth Ward was last month found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men, aged 18 and 24, at his home (...)
Tens of thousands of people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday in a major pro-Palestinian demonstration, one day after the New South Wales Supreme Court authorised the event in what organisers called a "historic" decision.
Despite (...)
Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have won the right to sue Qatar Airways after an appeal.
The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found (...)
Australia will lift restrictions on the import of beef from the US, a trade barrier which had angered the Trump administration.
American beef has effectively been banned from the country — which has some of the strictest biosecurity laws in the (...)
An algal bloom catastrophe which has turned usually pristine South Australian waters toxic green and suffocated masses of marine life is a "natural disaster", the state premier has declared.
The algal bloom — a rapid increase in the population of (...)
The Australian government has won a landmark climate case against residents of islands under siege from the impacts of climate change.
In 2021, community elders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai launched legal action against the then-Liberal government for (...)
A court in Australia has found a mother-of-two guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband's relatives and attempting to murder a fourth after she served them a lunch containing poisonous mushrooms.
A 12-person jury unanimously decided on (...)
Two alleged fraudsters accused of swindling an elderly woman out of tens of thousands of dollars in cash have been arrested by Australian police investigating a spate of "Chinese blessing scams."
Chinese blessing scams have been reported worldwide (...)
British colonists committed genocide against Australia's Indigenous population in Victoria, a landmark Aboriginal-led inquiry has found.
The Yoorrook Justice Commission found violence and disease reduced the local Indigenous population by three (...)
Australian airline Qantas says a data hack on Monday exposed the personal information of six million customers and it expects the amount stolen to be "significant."
The hack penetrated a third-party customer service platform used by a Qantas contact (...)
American rapper Kanye West has been blocked from entering Australia over a song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Australia's home affairs minister Tony Burke revealed that his department had cancelled West's valid visa after the song Heil Hitler (...)
