The Australian government has announced plans to make it tougher for foreigners to obtain citizenship with applicants now having to undergo an “Australian values” test and take...
An approaching cyclone prompted New Zealand to declare regional states of emergency, evacuate coastal areas and close airports and schools on Thursday. Cyclone Cook was heading...
Cyclone Debbie has made landfall in northeast Australia, with lashing rain and howling winds battering the area and towns going into lockdown. The category four storm...
Lawmakers have passed legislation that removes a controversial “gay panic” defense from the criminal code in an Australian state. The code previously enabled the measure to...
A Perth father who horrifically doused two of his children with petrol and set one alight had been drinking and smoking cannabis, a court has heard....
A small plane crashed into a shopping mall in Australia on Monday afternoon, killing five people on board, four of whom were U.S. citizens, the State...
Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse said 7 percent of Australian priests were accused of sexually abusing children between 1950 and 1975....
A phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Australian prime minister ended in disagreement, senior U.S. officials said. Sources told The Washington Post the...
A woman who died in an Australia Day plane crash on Perth’s Swan River uploaded footage of her final moments from inside the aircraft to social...
What the future brings is one of those things that have been puzzling people since the dawn of time. And, just as it has ever been,...
Millions of people across Australia have partied into the New Year, after farewelling 2016 beneath night skies set ablaze with colour by stunning fireworks displays. More...