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New Zealand will repeal on Tuesday a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could ...

A retired Roman Catholic bishop appeared in court in remote Western Australia on Thursday on charges of sexual offences against children, including two counts of rape. The charges against Christopher ...

Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach ...

Around 16,000 livestock remained in limbo aboard an export ship at an Australian port on Friday, having set sail for Israel exactly four weeks ago only to abandon a passage through ...

LATEST: EARTHQUAKE WITH INTENSITY OF UPPER 5 ON JAPAN’S EARTHQUAKE SCALE HITS ISHIKAWA At least 48 people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on New Year’s Day, with ...

Heavy rains lashed parts of Australia’s east on Monday, triggering flash flooding, inundating roads and bringing more pain for some residents reeling after the intense thunderstorms that hit the ...

Ten people were killed in Australia after severe thunderstorms battered the country’s east over the Christmas holidays, authorities said on Wednesday, with tens of thousands of properties still without ...

Large parts of Australia on Sunday sweated through heatwave conditions as authorities warned of a high bushfire risk in many parts of the country’s vast Western Australia state. The ...

A football fan who hit Melbourne City keeper Tom Glover in the face with a metal bucket during a pitch invasion last year had his jail term overturned on Friday. ...

Health and tobacco campaigners said on Monday that New Zealand’s plan to repeal laws that would ban tobacco sales for future generations threatened lives and put international efforts to ...

Australia will give cyber health checks for small businesses, increase cyber law enforcement funding and introduce mandatory reporting of ransomware attacks under a security overhaul announced last week after a ...

Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) Australia on Wednesday announced hundreds of job cuts citing a slowing economy and the after-effects of a national scandal over leaked tax documents as a major audit ...

Millions of Australians were left without a phone or internet connection on Wednesday after the country’s second-largest telecommunications provider experienced an unexplained nationwide outage. The outage crippled payment systems ...

Five people, including two children, were killed and several injured at a popular tourist town in rural Australia after a car crashed into a crowd of patrons on the front ...

Australian police said on Thursday they had arrested a 49-year-old woman over the deaths of three elderly people in August after they allegedly consumed mushrooms at a lunch hosted by ...

A suspected gunman has taken people hostage inside a post office in Japan after injuring two at a hospital, local authorities said on Tuesday. The government of the city of ...

Two people have been killed and dozens of homes destroyed in bushfires raging across Australia’s northern Queensland state, as firefighters travel from across the country and from New Zealand ...

Australia has rejected European Union proposals for a free trade agreement, and a deal is now unlikely to be reached for several years, Australian government ministers said on Monday. The ...

Australia’s central bank on Monday said tokenised money could help save billions of dollars in costs in domestic financial markets, as it studies whether and how to launch a ...

The Australian government said this week that it planned to introduce laws that would empower the central bank to regulate digital wallet providers including Apple Pay (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’...

Thousands of Australians joined pro-Palestinian rallies on Sunday, despite police threats to curb them amid tension after the bloody Hamas incursion into Israel eight days ago. Nations across the developed ...

Australia on Saturday decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country’s efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples. Australians ...

Pacific island countries will meet next week with US President Joe Biden for a second summit with his country, the secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum Henry Puna said on ...

The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels appeared at legal hearings at an international court in Germany on Monday, and seek ...