Tag: Australia
Australia, China ties deteriorate over Twitter post
Relations between Australia and China have deteriorated, hitting another low ebb on Monday, over a Twitter post by a top…
COVID-19: Australians spend $100,000 to bring stranded pets home
Pet owners who fled back to Australia before the peak of the coronavirus pandemic have chartered a 100,000-dollar (70,000 dollars)…
Aussie man Mark Rapley attacks white shark to save his wife
An Australian man Mark Rapley jumped onto a great white shark and punched it to save his wife when it…
Australia orders Google, Facebook to pay domestic media
Australia Government has ordered Facebook Inc and Google's Alphabet Inc to share advertising revenue with local media firms, as the…
Australia extends coronavirus restrictions
Australia will keep in place restrictions implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus for at least four more weeks.
Australia shuts ports against COVID-19 stricken cruise ships
Australia insisted Friday it would not let the crew of multiple virus-stricken cruise ships into the country, slapping aside suggestions…
Australia, New Zealand shut borders
Australia and New Zealand have both closed their borders to all visitors except for citizens and permanent residents and their…
Australia upgrades travel ban to Level 4
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, on Wednesday, announced that the government had issued an advisory banning international travel for all…
Australia’s mega forest fires tamed after one billion animals killed
Exhausted Australian firefighters said on Monday they had finally brought the country's largest "megablaze" under control, as wet weather promised…
U.S sends experienced firefighters to Australia
A group of 20 experienced Californian firefighters were due to travel to Australia on Monday to help combat the wildfires…
Extreme weather worsens Australian fires
Extreme weather conditions have taken hold in fire-ravaged south-eastern Australia with temperatures hitting 48 degrees Celsius in parts of Sydney…
Ecologist estimates 480m animals perished in Australian bushfires
Four hundred and eighty million animals could have died in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) since the…
Evacuations continue in eastern Australia as bushfires intensify
Evacuations have continued across the lower half of Australia's eastern coast due to devastating bushfires, with potentially catastrophic conditions expected…
Australia orders evacuations from fire-ravaged towns
Australia has given thousands of tourists less than 48 hours to evacuate fire-ravaged coastal communities as the country braces for…
Australia braces for extreme heatwave
Australia was bracing for days of extremely hot conditions on Saturday as a heatwave advanced on its east coast.
Australian fires intensify, heatwave advances
Firefighters in the hills east of Adelaide in South Australia raced against time to contain bushfires on Thursday.
Australia braces for severe heat and drought
Several thousand firefighters are battling dozens of out-of-control bushfires in four of Australia’s six states amid record-breaking heat and months…
Australia recovers US$327 million from Google
Google agreed to pay Australian tax authorities Aus$482 million (US$327 million) to settle a long-running dispute over the tech giant’s…
Heatwave warnings as bushfires continue blazing across Australia
Temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius for a third consecutive day in Western Australia on Sunday as fires blazed out-of-control north…
Fires across Australian state, over 350,000 hectares of land engulfed
Some 2,800 firefighters have been battling more than 100 bush fires across the state of New South Wales (NSW) in…
Chinese spy sings like canary in Australia
A Chinese spy, who defected to Australia, with his family, has been singing like a canary to the authorities as…
Golden Eaglets frustrated by Australia’s keeper lose last match
Australia's Joeys edged Nigeria's Golden Eaglets 2-1 at the Estadio Bezerrão in Brasilia in the teams' final Group B encounter…
Iran releases detained Australian travel-blogging couple
Australian travel bloggers, Jolie King and Mark Firkin, held in detention in Iran since July, have been released and all…
Thousands turn out for school climate strikes in Australia
School pupils went on strike in their tens of thousands across Australia on Friday to protest against a lack of…
Climate change: Australia announces 338m dollars funding
Australia has announced 500 million Australian dollars (338 million U.S. dollars) in funding for the Pacific region to tackle climate…
Australian ambulance assists dying patients get final wishes fulfilled
Inspired by an Australian ambulance crew who took a dying woman to the beach on her way to hospital, officials…
Video: Van packed with drugs worth $200 million rammed into police car
A van packed with drugs has been uncovered after the driver rammed into Police car in Sydney, Australia.
Flu kills over 200 in Australia
The death toll from Australia’s flu season has passed 200, with the authorities warning that the worst is yet to…
Monster earthquake hits Australia’s north coast
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck near Australia's north coast - sparking panic and an evacuation of schools, offices and…
Norway edge Australia in shootout to reach last 8
Norway beat Australia 4-1 on penalties to reach the women’s World Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2007 following…