australia

Gold Coast, Australia, March 8, 2025. Photo: AAP Image/Dave Hunt/via REUTERS
World+Biz

Thousands of Australians without power as storm Alfred lashes Queensland

Some 316,540 people were without power in Queensland's southeast, where the Gold Coast city was the worst-hit area with more than 112,000 without power due to the storm system

FILE PHOTO: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the Sydney Energy Forum in Sydney, Australia July 12, 2022. Brook Mitchell/Pool via REUTERS
World+Biz

Australia says would consider joining peacekeeping in Ukraine

Six passengers and six crew [12 total] on board sustained injuries after the aircraft experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey. File Photo: Collected
Offbeat

Australian couple traumatised after body placed next to them on flight

US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks at the White House, in Washington, US February 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
USA

Australia treasurer to meet US Treasury's Bessent amid push for tariff exemption

Telegram app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 27, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
World+Biz

Australia fines Telegram for delay in answering child abuse, terror questions

Australian Politician Clive Palmer is pictured during a dinner hosted for Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Parliament House in Canberra, July 8, 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo
Politics

Australian billionaire Palmer launches Trump-inspired political party

A giant excavator loads a mining truck at the Fortescue Solomon iron ore mine located in the Sheila Valley, around 400 km south of Port Hedland, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia December 2, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/David Gray/File photo
World+Biz

Aboriginal group seeks $1.1 billion from Western Australia in iron ore claim

The whales have beached in the north-west corner of Tasmania. Photo: Collected
Environment

Over 150 false killer whales stranded on remote Australian beach

At a dialogue on Bangladesh-Australia Climate Policy and Green Energy Transition, organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on 18 Feb. Photo: PID
Bangladesh

Bangladesh seeks Australia’s support for green energy transition

A general view of a construction site where many tall apartment buildings have been constructed in recent years, in Parramatta, Sydney, August 14, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Stella Qiu/File Photo
World+Biz

Australia to put two-year ban on foreigners buying existing homes amid housing crunch

Vessels are docked at the BlueScope steelworks, Port Kembla, Australia 9 February 2024. REUTERS/Lewis Jackson/File Photo
USA

Trump to consider exemption for Australia on steel, aluminium tariffs

A view of freshly cut slabs of steel at the BlueScope steelworks, Port Kembla, Australia February 9, 2024. REUTERS/Lewis Jackson/File Photo
World+Biz

Australia says its steel, aluminium exports create American jobs

Deepseek logo is seen in this illustration taken 27 January 2025. Photo: Reuters
Tech

Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices citing security concerns