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 (...)
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 (...)
