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 (...)
A journalist has won her case against Australia's national broadcaster, with a court ruling she was unfairly sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza.
Antoinette Lattouf said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) cut short her (...)
Norway's Princess Ingrid Alexandra is moving to Australia for her university studies, enrolling in a degree program at the University of Sydney.
Alexandra, who is second in line to Norway's throne, will join her classmates from August and will study (...)
A British ultra-endurance athlete has broken the world record for running across the width of Australia, after a grueling 35-day journey.
William Goodge, 31, started the 3,800km (2,361 miles) run from Cottesloe Beach in Perth on 15 April, and (...)
Australia's conservative Liberal-National coalition — the nation's main opposition political party — has split after a partnership lasting almost 80 years.
The move marks a seismic change in the country's political landscape and comes just weeks (...)
Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.
A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered (...)
Australia's Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election loss.
Ley, from the moderate faction of the party, beat Angus Taylor - who (...)
Early vote counts in Australia's general election on Saturday indicate the ruling Labor Party is on track to secure a second consecutive term — a feat not achieved in the country since 2004.
With 33.5% of the vote counted, Labor was leading with (...)
In Western Sydney, an audience of Stetson-wearing Australians are sitting in their fold-up camping chairs, swigging beers and eating a spiraled fried potato on a skewer known as a 'chip on a stick'.
People here are enjoying bull rides, barrel racing (...)
A teenager has been charged after Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton's office was vandalized for the third time during the election campaign.
The Liberal Party leader's office in Arana Hills, Brisbane was splattered in red paint, and covered (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Music Commission will host the Saudi Orchestra Masterpieces concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House on Monday, May 12.
The concert will be under the patronage of Minister of Culture and Chairman of the Music Commission Prince (...)
Five people have drowned and two remain missing after powerful waves struck Australia's eastern coastline at the start of the Easter weekend, prompting safety warnings from authorities.
On Saturday, emergency services recovered the body of a man (...)
Nora Aunor, one of the Philippines' most celebrated film stars, has died at the age of 71.
Aunor's death on Wednesday was announced by her children on social media, but no further details were provided about her cause of death.
"She touched (...)
Sudan's paramilitaries have declared the formation of a rival government to the country's armed forces, two years into a war that has become the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
The leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan (...)
Move over, Golden Gate and Sydney Harbour. China is set to open the world's tallest bridge in June, the latest feat of engineering from the infrastructure-focused country.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge is currently nearing the end of construction (...)
Relatives of a nine-year-old boy who was killed by an accidental gunshot in Australia have been charged over his death.
Paramedics treated the child for serious neck injuries at a farm in Windellama — near Goulburn in New South Wales (NSW) — on (...)
Australia has swiftly turned down China's offer to "join hands" against Donald Trump's tariffs, as Washington escalates its trade war with Beijing.
The White House recently imposed an import tax of 10% on Australian goods, but for China — (...)
A faulty radio antenna contributed to a deadly mid-air helicopter collision at an Australian theme park and resort, transport safety officials say.
Four people died — including two British tourists — and several more were seriously injured when the (...)
The US Commerce Secretary has defended the country's decision to impose tariffs on a group of uninhabited islands, which are populated only by penguins and seals.
The imposition of tariffs on the Heard and McDonald islands were meant to close (...)
Australia will head to the polls on May 3 for a federal election that could reshape the country's political landscape.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whose center-left Labor Party holds a narrow majority, confirmed the date on Friday after (...)
An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.
The patient, a man in his 40s who declined to be identified, received the implant (...)
Police in Australia have charged a 17-year-old who got on a plane with a shotgun and ammunition.
He was filmed being wrestled to the ground by passengers and crew as the aircraft prepared to take off from Avalon Airport, near Melbourne, carrying 160 (...)
An adventurer who tried to row across the Pacific Ocean from the United States to Australia has been rescued just days before he reached his final destination.
Lithuanian rower Aurimas Mockus sounded a distress signal late on Friday after he was (...)
