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Australia’s Victoria logs 5 local Covid cases amid lockdown, vaccination demand surges

Reuters News ServiceMay 29, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 29, 20210590

Australia’s Victoria state reported five new local COVID-19 cases on Saturday amid a strict lockdown, as people rushed to vaccination centres, causing long lines and...

Environment Oceania World

Australian students strike against government funding for gas industry

Reuters News ServiceMay 21, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 21, 20210175

Thousands of Australian students skipped school on Friday and gathered with climate activists to call on the government to stop funding the gas industry, taking aim...

Oceania World

Australia makes it a criminal offence for its citizens to return home from India

Reuters News ServiceMay 1, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 1, 202102133

Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as...

Oceania World

Australia reports first blood clot death ‘likely’ linked to AZ jab

Reuters News ServiceApril 16, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 16, 20210948

Australia on Friday reported its first fatality from blood clots in a recipient of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot, and its regulator said there was a likely...

Oceania

Australia probes if blood clot case linked to AstraZeneca vaccine

Reuters News ServiceApril 2, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 2, 202101264

Australia is investigating whether a blood clotting case recorded on Friday is related to the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a health official said, raising concern in...

Oceania World

Thousands evacuated in Australia’s worst floods in nearly half a century

Reuters News ServiceMarch 23, 2021March 23, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 23, 2021March 23, 20210237

Australian authorities issued fresh flood warnings and evacuation orders on Tuesday as torrential rains again pummelled several parts of the country, sweeping away homes, roads...

Oceania World

Australia unveils $928 mln stimulus package for tourism industry

Reuters News ServiceMarch 11, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 11, 20210165

The Australian government unveiled a A$1.2 billion ($928 million) tourism support package on Thursday, aimed at boosting local travel while international routes remain closed because of...

Oceania World

NZ livestream catches albatross in awkward faceplant (Video)

Reuters News ServiceMarch 10, 2021March 10, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 10, 2021March 10, 20210282

A livestream camera at a New Zealand nature reserve has caught a Royal Albatross making an awkward landing, with the video of the faceplanting now propelling the bird...

Oceania World

Huge quakes hit near New Zealand, tsunami threat passes

Reuters News ServiceMarch 5, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 5, 20210593

A powerful series of undersea quakes struck north-east of New Zealand on Friday, but tsunami waves that forced many people on the country’s North Island...

Oceania World

Strong 7.2 magnitude earthquake shakes NZ, tsunami warning issued

Reuters News ServiceMarch 4, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 4, 20210537

A severe 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the east of New Zealand’s North Island on Friday, prompting a tsunami warning, and authorities advised people in...

Oceania World

Auckland back to lockdown after one Covid case detected

Reuters News ServiceFebruary 27, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceFebruary 27, 20210615

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that the country’s biggest city, Auckland, will be put into a seven-day lockdown from Sunday after...

Oceania Tech & Science World

The Digital War: Australian lawmakers expected to pass amendments to Facebook, Google law

CyprusMailFebruary 24, 2021February 24, 2021

By CyprusMailFebruary 24, 2021February 24, 20210130

The architect of Australian media reforms being watched around the world claimed victory on Wednesday, even as critics said concessions to the laws forcing Big...

Oceania Tech & Science World

Facebook has ‘tentatively friended’ us again, Australia says

Reuters News ServiceFebruary 20, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceFebruary 20, 20210171

Facebook Inc is back at the negotiating table, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday after the tech giant this week blocked news on...

Oceania World

NZ PM urges Australia to ‘do the right thing’ over terror suspect’s citizenship

Reuters News ServiceFebruary 16, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceFebruary 16, 20210303

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday accused Australia of abdicating its responsibilities by “unilaterally” cancelling the citizenship of a woman detained in Turkey...

Oceania World

Covid vaccines touch down in Australia, New Zealand, inoculations to start

Reuters News ServiceFebruary 15, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceFebruary 15, 20210267

Australia and New Zealand have received their first COVID-19 vaccine deliveries and will begin rolling out inoculations in the coming week, while populous cities of Melbourne...

Europe Oceania World

Melbourne enters new lockdown, Portugal’s lockdown extended till March

Reuters News ServiceFebruary 12, 2021February 12, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceFebruary 12, 2021February 12, 202101066

Australia’s second-most populous city will enter a five-day snap coronavirus lockdown, authorities said on Friday, barring spectators for much of the Australian Open tennis tournament....

Oceania World

Australia tells thousands to leave homes as bushfire threatens Perth

Reuters News ServiceFebruary 3, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceFebruary 3, 20210363

Strong winds threatening to fan a bushfire prompted Australia on Wednesday to urge thousands of people to leave their homes in the provincial capital of...

Oceania Tech & Science

Google says to block search engine in Australia if forced to pay for news

Reuters News ServiceJanuary 22, 2021January 22, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceJanuary 22, 2021January 22, 20210212

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and...

Oceania World

Australia calls out Google for “experiment” blocking some news sites

Reuters News ServiceJanuary 14, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceJanuary 14, 20210232

Australia urged Google on Thursday to “focus on paying for original content, not blocking it” after the internet giant said it was running tests that...