Australia

The federal government is clamping down on foreign interference at Australian universities, a senior member of parliament announced on Aug. 28. Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan announced the formation of ...

Transgender Victorians will now have the freedom to choose the gender on their birth certificates without invasive reassignment ...

China has warned Australia not to interfere in the case of a dual citizen charged with espionage in ...

The U.S. Department of Defense is in talks with Australia to host a facility that would process rare ...

SYDNEY—Hong Kong buying enquiries for expensive Australian and New Zealand homes have ramped up due to anti-government protests ...

Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan wants Australia to target India as a key market for thermal coal exports ...

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says he is very disappointed the Labor state conference degenerated into chaos due ...

The Morrison government has declared that Australian citizen and writer Dr. Yang Hengjun has not been spying for ...

A Queensland mother of three has been banned from owning a pet after neglecting a two-year-old American bulldog ...

SYDNEY—A global trade war was a "significant risk" to the world economy though Australia's shrinking current account deficit ...

Australian writer and former China diplomat Yang Hengjun has been formally charged with espionage by Chinese authorities. His ...

President Donald Trump has dismissed a new Australian study suggesting that the Chinese military has presented “an unprecedented ...

The state's corruption watchdog is investigating whether now-banned Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo was the true source of $100,000 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia—Tibetan community leaders in Melbourne, including religious and pro-democracy community leaders, rallied on the steps of Victoria’s ...

A Pakistani man who set himself on fire while in an asylum detention centre on Nauru is in ...

HANOI—New allies Vietnam and Australia expressed concern on Aug. 23 about China's activities in the South China Sea, ...

Australia's most populous state is expelling China's state-sponsored Confucius Institute from its education department, and scrapping the Confucius Classrooms ...

The developer of an apartment block neighbouring the beleaguered Mascot Towers in Sydney has hit back at fresh ...

The parents who fed their daughter a diet so lacking in nutrients that she became severely malnourished got ...

SYDNEY—Australia is seeing an increase in interest in its millionaires-only visa program from wealthy Hong Kong residents who ...

SYDNEY—Former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer has died aged 73. Fischer was the quintessential, laconic rural Australian, ...

The Sydney parents of a baby girl fed a vegan diet which left her severely malnourished have avoided ...

Sudden outages of old coal-fired power stations is expected to cause more blackouts this summer, according to an ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will increase his efforts to rid the internet of violent, extremist content during the ...

Scott Morrison has pledged to bolster economic and security ties with Vietnam during an official visit to the ...

As residents in countries around the world hold solidarity protests in support of Hong Kong protesters, many pro-China ...

Opponents of a bill to decriminalise abortion gathered in their thousands near the NSW parliament for a rally ...