Australia offered pathways to permanent residency for thousands of people from Hong Kong on Thursday in response to China’s crackdown on dissent, drawing a furious reply from Beijing.
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Australia warned its citizens on Tuesday they could face “arbitrary detention” if they travel to China, the latest sign of growing tensions between the two nations.
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The hard-hit Australian state of Victoria recorded two deaths and its highest-ever daily increase in coronavirus cases Monday as authorities prepare to close its border with New South Wales.
Read moreAustralia’s prime minister revealed Friday his country was under a broad cyberattack from a “state-based actor” targeting government, public services and businesses, with suspicions falling on China.
Read moreAustralia’s conservative government announced plans Friday to double university fees for humanities students, in a bid to push people into more useful, “job-relevant” courses such as math and science.
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Mining giant BHP has been given government approval to destroy up to 40 indigenous heritage sites, Australia’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister said Thursday, just days after Rio Tinto sparked outrage by damaging ancient rock shelters nearby.
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An Australian court sided with police in ruling Friday that a Black Lives Matter protest planned for Sydney poses too much risk for spreading the coronavirus and cannot be held.
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Aboriginal teenagers were illegally tear gassed in an Australian juvenile jail, a court ruled Wednesday amid renewed public condemnation over police abuse of indigenous citizens in custody.
Read moreAustralia is investigating a U.S. police attack on two Australian television journalists outside the White House, the foreign minister said Tuesday, expressing “strong concerns” about the assault caught live on camera.
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A knife-toting Australian hired to break into another man’s home, tie him up and stroke him with a broom has been cleared of intimidation after accidentally entering the wrong house.
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Australia’s highest court ruled on Friday to make public letters between Queen Elizabeth II and her representative that would reveal what knowledge she had, if any, of the dismissal of an Australian government in 1975.
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University researchers have developed and recorded the fastest internet data speed in the world from a single optical chip, holding the capacity to download 1,000 high-definition movies in a split second, according to new research revealed Friday.
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Australia is getting down and dirty to combat the coronavirus pandemic, unrolling a vast program of sewage testing this week in the hope of finding hidden clusters of the virus.
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A church in Australia has been fined for unlawfully advertising a purported “miracle” coronavirus cure that contains bleach, the Therapeutic Goods Administration said Wednesday.
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France and Spain, two of the worst-hit countries in the coronavirus pandemic, were laying out separate roadmaps Tuesday for lifting their lockdowns, while signs emerged the virus has been all but vanquished in New Zealand and Australia.
Read moreNearly 2 million Australians have downloaded a new smartphone app designed to make coronavirus contact tracing easier, the government said Monday, overlooking privacy concerns in the hope of speeding up the end of social-distancing lockdowns.
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Australia’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that a search warrant at the center of a national storm over press freedom was invalid.
Read moreCardinal George Pell welcomed Australia’s highest court clearing him of child sex crimes Tuesday and said his trial had not been a referendum on the Catholic Church’s handling of the clergy abuse crisis.
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Hard-drinking Australians were told Tuesday to limit themselves to buying just 12 bottles of wine and two cases of beer a day as a coronavirus lockdown saw panic buying of alcohol.
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered “very widespread” damage after rising sea temperatures caused the third mass coral bleaching events in five years, authorities said Thursday.
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