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Australias Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday his centre-left government would soon legislate changes to planned tax cuts set to trim benefits to the wealthy while giving low-income... -January 26, 2024 at 08:20 pm EST - MarketScreener

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousand's marked Australia's national day on Friday with "Invasion Day" rallies in support of the country's Indigenous community, many of whom oppose celebrating the day a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788.

Parts of Western Australia on Saturday were set to swelter through an "extreme" heatwave, raising the risk of bushfires in the vast state, the nation's weather forecaster said. The Bureau of Meteorology on Saturday had an "extreme heatwave warning" in place for the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne areas of Australia's largest state, warning temperatures there could hit high forties degrees Celsius on the weekend. In the Pilbara mining town of Paraburdoo, about 1,500 km (...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday battled an out-of-control bushfire near Western Australias capital Perth, prompting authorities ...

New Zealand's former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern married her longtime partner Clarke Gayford in a private ceremony on Saturday, finally tying the knot after cancelling ceremonies during strict COVID-19 controls she imposed on the country.

Residents in the state of Western Australia were urged to evacuate their homes on Saturday, as a bushfire burned out of control near the states capital Perth, amid soaring temperatures.... -January 12, 2024 at 11:03 pm EST - MarketScreener

SYDNEY -Emergency teams pulled three bodies from the rubble of Papua New Guineas massive landslide, the U.N. said on Sunday, warning the death toll would likely rise in the disaster... -May 25, 2024 at 11:35 pm EDT - MarketScreener

SYDNEY : Large swaths of Australia on Sunday sweated through heat wave conditions as authorities warned of a high bushfire risk in many parts of the country's vast Western Australia state.The nation's weather forecaster on Sunday issued heat wave alerts for the state and neighbouring Northern Territory, w

Nearly 70 toys have been removed from store shelves as part of a pre-Christmas blitz on shops selling dangerous products to unsuspecting customers.

Australian Federal Police will roll out high-visibility patrols at the nation's airports as part of a festive season operation to clamp down on bad behaviour.