Tag: Australia
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…