Australia

The Australian government conveyed its profound dismay on Saturday regarding the 13-year penal colony sentence handed down by a Russian-controlled court to an Australian citizen captured while serving in the Ukrainian armed forces. Oscar Jenkins, a...

One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers on Friday lost a legal bid to overturn bombshell court findings that implicated him in war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. Former SAS commando Ben Roberts-Smith has been fighting to...

Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt conceded the loss of his own parliamentary seat Thursday, blaming a flood of votes that swept to the triumphant Labor Party. People who “hate” right-leaning opposition leader Peter Dutton had flocked...

Australia’s left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese basked Sunday in his landslide election win, promising a “disciplined, orderly” government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil. Residents clapped as the 62-year-old and his fiancee Jodie Haydon visited...

Ahead of a fiercely contested general election on May 3, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged Sunday to abolish supermarket price gouging and impose steep fines. Voters frequently list the cost of living as their top...

Australia will fortify its economy against damaging US tariffs in a government budget to be unveiled Tuesday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said as he touted plans to boost homegrown “green” manufacturing. The annual budget sets the scene...

Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury was contacted by Australian Home Minister Tony Burke today by telephone to advise him that Australia would now handle visa applications for citizens of Bangladesh from its High...

Scientists said Wednesday that they have discovered a cache of fossilized dinosaur footprints on a rock slab that was collecting dust inside an Australian school. Before the school in the rural Banana shire of Queensland requested...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared Wednesday that Washington’s impending steel and aluminum tariffs are “entirely unjustified” after he was unable to obtain a last-minute exemption. “This is not a friendly act,” Albanese told reporters, after...

On Tuesday, a densely populated area of Australia’s east coast braced itself for what might be the first tropical cyclone to hit the area in half a century. Tropical Cyclone About 550 kilometers (340 miles) east...