An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Vang Vieng, Laos, Australia’s prime minister said, and the U.S. State Department confirmed an American also died in the same party town, bringing the death toll to four in the poisoning incident
November 21, 2024
Australia's centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5
November 21, 2024
Legislation to create a world-first law banning children under 16 from social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament
November 21, 2024
Australia tables bill to limit under-16s from using social media with tech companies facing huge fines
November 21, 2024
Australian communications minister says the government won’t force social media users to hand over personal information to tech companies, as children younger than 16 are set to be banned from the platforms
November 20, 2024
Australia said it was concerned that one in ten cybersecurity incidents last year involved critical infrastructure, with state-sponsored actors targeting the country's government,
November 20, 2024
Major Australian banks have partnered with BioCatch in launching a pilot of an anti-scam project, aimed at reducing frauds in banking payments, the Israeli digital fraud detection startup
November 20, 2024
Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction
November 19, 2024
Australia's official statistician has been overestimating the cost of child care in its consumer price index for the past year, but the error will not result in any changes to
November 19, 2024
Australia and Turkey are in a standoff over which country is better suited to host United Nations climate change talks in 2026, with
November 19, 2024
Two 19-year-old Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning after apparently consuming tainted drinks in neighboring Laos
November 19, 2024
Australia's Sayona Mining will buy U.S.-based Piedmont Lithium in an all-stock deal that will consolidate its Canadian operations and
November 19, 2024
Wesfarmers-owned Bunnings, the country's biggest home improvement chain, breached the privacy of thousands of customers by using facial recognition technology without gaining
November 19, 2024
Singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is an icon in Australia but a cult figure in the rest of the world
November 18, 2024
China's relationship with Australia has achieved a turnaround and the two countries are maintaining a positive momentum of development, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Australian
November 18, 2024
Australia's central bank has found no evidence that monetary policy is more potent in the country than elsewhere given households have ways to manage interest rate risks, even
November 18, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met China's President Xi Jinping in Brazil on Monday, as Beijing seeks to promote Australia as a model for trading with
November 18, 2024
Australia's competition regulator said on Monday it is seeking views on the Macquarie-backed telecommunications group Vocus' A$5.25 billion ($3.39 billion) takeover of local telecom
November 18, 2024
Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month
November 18, 2024
Australia's corporate watchdog on Monday launched civil penalty proceedings against National Australia Bank, the country's second-largest lender, for failing to respond to hundreds of
November 17, 2024
Japanese troops will begin regular deployments in northern Australia as part of military cooperation with Australia and the U.S., Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on
November 17, 2024
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his relationship with U.S.
November 16, 2024
The defence ministers of Australia, Japan and the United States will meet in the Australian city of Darwin on Sunday to discuss continued
November 15, 2024
Why Australian zoo is asking Sydney residents to catch deadly funnel-web spiders
November 15, 2024
American and Australian tourists die, raising toll to 4 in Laos alcohol poisoning incident
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Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led force in Haiti to a UN peacekeeping mission
Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial
Percival Everett and Jason De León win National Book Awards
UConn’s Geno Auriemma sets all-time college basketball wins record