Australia will soon establish a travel bubble with Singapore, with details of the plan to be revealed next week, says Prime Minister Scott Morrison, BBC reported.
Singapore will be only the second travel corridor for Australia, which has closed its (...)
Australia is hoping it has said goodbye to lockdowns after its second-largest city, Melbourne, became the final state capital to reopen, BBC reported.
More than five million people are celebrating new freedoms, such as visits to cafes and other (...)
A total of 43 police staff in the Australian state of Victoria have been stood down from duty and could face being fired after they failed to comply with a Covid-19 vaccine mandate, CNN reported on Tuesday.
Under Victorian state law, all emergency (...)
Parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents will be classified as immediate family, allowing them to travel to Australia in states and territories that have reached 80 percent double dose vaccination targets.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison (...)
New South Wales could ease more restrictions in Sydney a week earlier than planned on Oct. 18 as Australia's most populous state races towards its 80% double-dose vaccination target, the government said on Wednesday.
The southeastern state is (...)
The Australian city of Sydney has emerged from lockdown after almost four months, with locals celebrating a range of new freedoms.
People queued for pubs and shops that opened at midnight on Monday specifically for the occasion.
Many others have (...)
Sydney is set to reopen after months in lockdown, officials said on Sunday, with businesses reading themselves to welcome fully vaccinated residents from Monday.
New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, reported 477 new coronavirus cases (...)
New Zealand will begin to move away from a zero-Covid strategy toward living with the virus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday, becoming the latest country to abandon its elimination attempts in the face of the highly-contagious Delta (...)
Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives. Australians will very soon be able to jet off overseas with the plan for lifting the ban on outbound travel (...)
MELBOURNE: A 5.8 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of Melbourne, BBC reported.
The earthquake happened about 09:15 local time (23:15 GMT) on Wednesday at Mansfield, not far from the Victorian state (...)
MELBOURNE: Australia's Victoria state has shut construction sites across Melbourne following a violent protest against mandatory Covid-19 vaccines.
The protest on Monday was against a requirement for staff to prove they had received a vaccine dose (...)
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison hinted at an end to the country's zero COVID-19 infections strategy in an opinion piece published Sunday, warning Australians to expect a rise in infections as restrictions relax.
Morrison's article comes as (...)
A year and a half since the first COVID-19 cases were identified, many countries in Asia-Pacific feel right back where they started.
While Britons hit the nightclubs after a long winter of coronavirus restrictions, millions of people in Australia (...)
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales has become the UK's newest UNESCO World Heritage Site, having been granted the accolade on Wednesday, at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee.
The landscape has become the UK's 32nd UNESCO World (...)
Thousands of people took to the streets of cities in Australia on Saturday to protest against lockdown restrictions, amid a surge in coronavirus cases.
Police made several arrests in Sydney and other cities after crowds broke through barriers and (...)
Quarantine-free travel from all Australian states and territories to New Zealand has been suspended, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins announced on Friday.
The news comes as Australia continues to (...)
A two-way travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand opened on Monday, allowing passengers to move quarantine-free between both countries for the first time in more than a year.
Australia had previously allowed New Zealand travelers to enter (...)
People in parts of Sydney's northwest were ordered to flee their houses in the middle of the night as heavy rains continued to batter Australia's east coast Sunday with fast-moving waters causing widespread destruction throughout the region, Reuters (...)
People in parts of Sydney's northwest were ordered to flee their houses in the middle of the night as heavy rains continued to batter Australia's east coast today with fast-moving waters causing widespread destruction throughout the region, Reuters (...)
A British-Australian academic said she suffered "psychological torture" while jailed in Iran and claims Tehran tried to recruit her as a spy, in her first interview since she was released last year.
In comments aired by Sky News Australia on (...)
Australia's government announced on Tuesday that Facebook has agreed to lift its ban on Australians sharing news after a deal was struck on legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalism.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Facebook (...)
Parts of Western Australia went into a five-day lockdown on Sunday, after a hotel security guard tested positive for coronavirus.
The Perth metropolitan area and the Peel and southwest regions of the Australian state are now under "full lockdown," (...)
New Zealand has rung in 2021 with a spectacular fireworks display and light show in Auckland.
Thousands gathered in the harbor foreshore to celebrate the New Year - with crowds free to mingle as the country enjoys an absence of coronavirus (...)
Bahrain and the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh have been named among the world's top FinTech ecosystems to watch, according to a major new report.
Research organization Startup Genome analyzed dozens of countries across the globe based on factors (...)
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic detained by Iran for more than two years on espionage charges, has been freed in an apparent prisoner exchange for three Iranians.
Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer on Middle Eastern studies at the (...)
