#Australia

Gunmen opened fire at a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian officials described as a targeted antisemitic attack. One ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday took aim at young people parading themselves on social media a day after a world-first ban on under-16s went live, saying the ...

Australia became on Wednesday the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access in a move welcomed by many parents and child advocates but criticised by major ...

Australian teenagers have taken to social media for the last time to farewell their followers and mourn the loss of the platforms that shaped much of their lives before a ...

A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first law is set ...

Australian far-right Senator Pauline Hanson wore a burqa to Parliament on Monday as a political prop in her push to ban the Muslim garment in public, sparking accusations of racism ...

England captain Ben Stokes declared himself shell-shocked by Travis Head’s incredible innings of 123 as Australia, seemingly on the ropes, roared back to crush England by eight wickets inside two ...

Online platforms will ping Australian teenagers through over a million accounts in coming days offering a choice: download data, freeze profiles or lose the lot when a world-first ban on ...

Australia and the United States will spend billions of dollars in coming years on critical mining projects, defense systems and other investments in a deal between the two nation’s ...

Mitchell Marsh scored a quickfire half-century as Australia crushed New Zealand by six wickets in the series-opening T20I despite a maiden century from home batter Tim Robinson in Mount ...

The world has been transfixed by the case of Erin Patterson: the Australian woman convicted of mass murder, having brutally killed three members of her family using death cap mushrooms, ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday his centre-left government would consider the recommendations of an independent report on Islamophobia, which suggests anti-Muslim sentiment in the country had hit “...

A man was arrested on Monday after ramming his car into the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney, Australian police said. The police diplomatic protection unit responded to a ...

Thousands of Australians joined anti-immigration rallies across the country on Sunday that the centre-left government condemned, saying they sought to spread hate and were linked to neo-Nazis. March for Australia ...

Australia’s Glenn Maxwell produced an unbeaten half-century in a tense chase to help the hosts edge out South Africa by two wickets in the third and final Twenty20 International ...

The British & Irish Lions stormed back from an 18-point deficit to overhaul Australia 29-26 in front a record crowd in Melbourne on Saturday and seal the series with a ...

Five Australian women who say they were pulled from a Qatar Airways flight by armed guards and strip-searched have won the right to sue the airline, after a court on ...

Australia will not commit troops in advance to any conflict, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said on Sunday, responding to a report that the Pentagon has pressed its ally to ...

Australia’s Connor Metcalfe has warned his teammates to avoid reacting to Saudi Arabia’s gamesmanship when the nations face off in Jeddah on Tuesday with automatic qualification for next ...

Australian Cypriot footballer Aziz Behich on Thursday night scored a last-minute winner for Australia’s national team against Japan to all but secure the Socceroos’ place at next year’s ...

An Australian woman accused of murder denied measuring out a “fatal dose” of poisonous mushrooms on her kitchen scales to kill three elderly relatives of her estranged husband, as she ...

Flash flooding on Australia’s southeast coast has killed three people and cut off towns, isolating tens of thousands of residents, as officials on Thursday warned more downpours were expected ...

Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, a 104-year-old second world war veteran, will lead the Cypriot contingent at Friday’s march to mark Anzac Day in Sydney. Mouxouris was born in Morphou in 1921 and ...