Australia

Only after taking their final year history exam did some high school students realise a serious mishap can be caused by a trivial error. Because until then, they didn't know ...

SYDNEY/BEIJING—When Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill flagged the possibility of China bankrolling a port development off ...

WELLINGTON/SYDNEY—Chinese leader Xi Jinping will showcase China's "One Belt, One Road" (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road) ...

MELBOURNE—An Australian man who drove a car into dozens of pedestrians on a busy shopping street in central ...

SYDNEY—Australia's chief cyber security chief said on Nov. 13 an investigation into the hacking of defense contractor Austal ...

SYDNEY—An Australian court refused on Nov. 13 to approve a record $35 million fine imposed on Westpac Banking ...

Victoria’s incumbent Labor government has released the details of the controversial Belt and Road Initiative agreement it signed ...

SYDNEY—An Australian court on Monday, Nov. 12, ordered a 50-year-old farm supervisor charged in a strawberry needle contamination ...

SYDNEY—Future "lone wolf" attacks in Australia will be difficult to stop despite heightened security in the aftermath of ...

MELBOURNE—An empty iron ore train has derailed in Western Australia after poor weather eroded part of the track, ...

SYDNEY—A homeless man who used a shopping trolley to fend off a knife-wielding attacker as he stabbed at ...

SYDNEY—Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Nov. 8 he has secured support for his minority government after ...

Customers of a cafe credited with pioneering Melbourne's famous coffee culture piled flowers and condolences outside on Saturday, ...

A politician in Australia's most populous state was replaced on Saturday, Nov. 10 after he resigned over alleged ...

MELBOURNE—An Australian man who set fire to a truck laden with gas cylinders in the center of Melbourne ...

An attacker who stabbed a man to death in Melbourne, Australia, has died after being shot by police ...

UPDATE: Victoria Police said that the attack in the Melbourne CBD is now being treated as a terrorism ...

CANBERRA—Australia's prime minister on Nov. 7 outlined plans to increase investments in infrastructure in the South Pacific as ...

Three big recent developments threaten the federal government’s control over its most difficult strategic policy challenge: the direction ...

SYDNEY—Australia's bank regulator said on Nov. 8 it wants to raise the amount of spare cash banks carry ...

CANBERRA, Australia—Australia's competition watchdog on Nov. 8 approved the proposed merger of television network Nine Entertainment and newspaper ...

SYDNEY—Australia will create a $2 billion fund to provide loans to Pacific nations to build infrastructure, Prime Minister ...

CANBERRA—The Australian government on Nov. 7 warned it intends to block a Hong Kong and Chinese consortium's $9 ...

Buildings at Australia's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre were set alight on Nov. 6 after inmates tried to ...

The Irish racehorse The Cliffsofmoher has died after being injured in Australia's most feted thoroughbred competition, dubbed "the ...

A man died after he was attacked by a shark in waters off Australia's tropical northeast coast on ...

Before he grabbed the listless body of the 18-month-old baby from the sea, fisherman Gus Hutt thought it was ...