WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Plastic soy sauce bottles shaped like fish are tiny, cute and beloved by many sushi eaters. But in the state of South Australia, the decorative containers swam into a growing net of outlawed plastics. Officials enacted an ...
Nicole Kidman Becomes The First Australian To Receive AFI Life Achievement Award...
Millions of Australians have been left without mobile and internet service after telecommunications giant Optus was hit by an outage. Optus is the country's second-largest provider, with more than 10 million individual customers and hundr...
The new owners of collapsed firm Britishvolt are planning to use the Northumberland site to supply batteries to the Australian military. Australian firm Recharge Industries bought Britishvolt after it went into administration earlier this...
Wholesale gas prices in Europe have fallen after a planned strike at Australia's largest liquefied natural gas plant looked to have been averted. The walkout at Woodside Energy's North West Shelf plant had threatened to disrupt global LNG...
Australian airline Qantas has relaxed its gender-based uniform rules, allowing male employees to wear makeup and have long hair. Its new style guide means female employees will no longer have to wear makeup and heels while on duty....
An Australian man has escaped with his life after being attacked by a saltwater crocodile while snorkelling at an exclusive Queensland resort. Marcus McGowan, 51, has detailed how he managed to prise the predator's jaws off his head, suff...
"It feels like Groundhog Day. I wake up and it's raining, dark and cold, over and over and over again." Rebecca Gray feels like it has rained all year in Sydney, Australia. She's not far off the mark. The city has seen...
In 2015, about 10% of Australia's vast mangrove forests in the Gulf of Carpentaria mysteriously died. Scientists have now figured out the cause - and warn the forests may struggle to recover in a changing climate....
An Australian state's health minister was giving a Covid update when a journalist pointed out she had a huntsman spider crawling on her. Yvette D'ath remained calm but was keen to get help. Huntsmans are large spiders with a leg span of up ...
Leading global coal and gas supplier Australia has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Prime Minister Scott Morrison however said the plan would not include ending Australia's fossil fuel sectors. The n...
The Australian city of Sydney has emerged from lockdown after almost four months, with locals celebrating a range of new freedoms. People queued for pubs and shops that opened at midnight on Monday specifically for the occasion....
Australia says it has secured an extra four million doses of the Pfizer vaccine from the UK in a swap deal. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the extra vaccines would help his country come out of its lockdowns sooner. A...
The Australian Olympic track and field team is going into quarantine after they had contact with someone on the U.S. team whotested positive for COVID-19, the Australian Olympic Committee confirmed early Thursday. \\"Members of Au...
Seven Australian cities are now in lockdown as authorities scramble to prevent the spread of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant. Officials reported a slight case rise on Wednesday, to more than 200 cases. Ne...
The border between Australia's two most populous states, Victoria and New South Wales (NSW), is to close after a spike in Covid-19 cases in Melbourne. The outbreak in Victoria's capital has seen hundreds of cases in the past two weeks - more...
With theCOVID-19outbreak getting more and more out of hand, more people are panic buying just in case the outbreak reaches a whole other level where we are all forced to stay home and all stores are closed. The situation became so bad ...
Graffiti artists have paid tribute to the firefighters tackling Australia's biggest wildfires in decades. A firefighting koala with a note of thanks for the country's rural fire services was among the murals painted in Hosier Lane, Melbourne...
"We're doing it because it's a passion. It's a brotherhood," says Daniel Knox. "When that photo was taken of me, I had done a 15-hour shift out there." He is one of thousands of Australians who've dropped their ordinary ...
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