Australia aims to complete review of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021
Australia’s pharmaceutical regulator said on Thursday it is on course to review Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine...
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Leifer extradition appeal set for Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has already rejected several appeals by Leifer’s defense team on different aspects...
Mighty Ape online retailer sells to Australia’s Kogan
One of Australia’s leading online retailers, Kogan.com, has bought one of New Zealand’s biggest, Mighty...
New Zealand registers concern with China over official’s ‘unfactual’ tweet
New Zealand has weighed into the escalating row between China and Australia, formally registering its...
Australia PM seeks apology for ‘outrageous’ false image tweeted by the official of Chinese government
Warning: This story contains graphic content that some readers may find upsetting. Australian Prime Minister...
Sydney logs the hottest night of November on record
Sydney has reported its hottest November night on record, with the official start of summer...
Australia plans WTO action on tariffs against China: Jacinda Ardern is not yet taking sides:
The Australian government is giving its strongest indication so far that it will take action...
‘Trade War’: China hammers about 200pc tariff on Australian wine
The Chinese government has announced it will place tariffs on all Australian wine imports from...
Australia heatwave forecast with temperatures to top 40C
It is still a few days out from the official start of summer, but in...
Australia defence chief pledges changes after damning Afghanistan report
Australia’s top military official said on Sunday the country’s defence force must ‘own’ a recent...
Lies that led to a lockdown – South Australian police investigate
South Australian police have formed a taskforce to investigate all the information provided to the...
Australia’s Afghanistan war crimes report: 39 alleged unlawful killings
Australia’s Defence Chief says there is information to substantiate 23 incidents of alleged unlawful killing...
Australian officials respond angrily to fresh attacks from Chinese diplomats
Australian officials have responded angrily after a Chinese diplomat in Canberra launched a fresh attack...
New covid measures force SkyCity casino closure in Adelaide
SkyCity has been forced to close its Adelaide casino due to new Covid-19 restrictions in...
South Australia ordered into six-day lockdown amid Covid-19 outbreak
South Australia will be ordered into a major lockdown for six days in what the...
Seventeen new cases linked to Adelaide coronavirus cluster
Seventeen coronavirus cases have now been linked to a cluster in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, South...
Australia to spend $726 million underwriting country’s biggest vaccine plant
Australia will spend A$1 billion ($726.3 million) underwriting construction of a vaccine manufacturing plant under...
Australian police target online paedophile network with links in New Zealand
An investigation into a major online paedophile network has found 16 children from one NSW...
Melbourne Cup horse Anthony Van Dyck euthanised after race
One of the horses which competed in today’s Melbourne Cup, named Anthony Van Dyck, has...
Australia’s Reserve Bank cuts interest rates to record low of 0.1 percent
The Reserve Bank in Australia has cut interest rates to a record low of 0.1...
Australia records no new COVID-19 cases for first time in five months
Australia recorded no new daily coronavirus community infections on Sunday for the first time in...
Australia’s second-wave epicentre records zero new virus cases
Australia’s Victoria state has spent months under tight restrictions after becoming the epicentre of the...
Australia demands answers after passengers strip-searched at Doha airport
An Australian woman strip-searched by authorities at a Qatari airport after a premature baby was...
Australia withdraws Navy operations in Middle East to focus on Asia-Pacific, China
A three-decades-long Australian naval presence in the Middle East will come to an abrupt end...
South Australia opens borders to New Zealanders effective immediately
South Australia is joining New South Wales and Northern Territory in opening its borders to...
Woman charged with New Zealand firefighter’s murder in Australia
A second person has been charged with murder over the death of a New Zealand...
New Zealand travellers arrive in Adelaide, outside of trans-Tasman bubble
Five travellers from New Zealand have been forced into hotel quarantine in Adelaide after arriving...
Ship bound for Brisbane most likely source of Covid transmission – Ashley Bloomfield
The Director-General of Health says a ship now bound for Brisbane is believed to be...
Australia’s COVID-19 hotspot to partially lift lockdown restrictions
FILE PHOTO: A person wears a scarf as a protective face mask in Melbourne after...
Victoria reports one new Covid-19 infection
Victoria’s Health Department says the state has recorded one new coronavirus infection and no deaths....
17 travellers from NZ who landed in Sydney caught entering Melbourne
Seventeen passengers from New Zealand who travelled to Sydney under the trans-Tasman bubble arrangements have...
Victoria should ease lockdown, epidemiologist says
Victoria does not need to get down to just five cases a day to ease...
How Australia is coping with Covid-19
Investigative journalist Dr Norman Swan says the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia saw “superspreading social networks”...
Aussie ex-PM registers as foreign agent over UK role
Australia’s former prime minister Tony Abbott registered as an agent of foreign influence, after taking...
Australia’s COVID-19 hotspot cases inch up, but officials optimistic
New daily coronavirus infections in Australia’s hotspot of Victoria climbed back to double digits on...
Police increase patrolling in Australia’s COVID-19 hotspot
Police in Australia’s coronavirus hotspot state of Victoria stepped up patrolling on Saturday as hundreds...
Trans-Tasman bubble: ‘best news’ or ‘a big blow’?
Australian airline Qantas has welcomed the first stages of a trans-Tasman travel bubble but the...
Australia’s virus hotspot sees five new cases, on track for Christmas opening
Australia’s coronavirus hotspot Victoria recorded a single digit rise in new cases for the first...
New Zealanders may be able to travel to some Australian states before Christmas, Ardern says
Travel between New Zealand and some states of Australia is possible before the end of...
Australia’s Victoria state to ease COVID-19 restrictions as cases slow
Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state and the epicentre of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak, will...
Winston Peters optimistic about Australian travel bubble
Minister of foreign affairs Winston Peters is still optimistic there could be a travel bubble...
Susan Ryan, former Australian minister, age discrimination commissioner, dies aged 77
Susan Ryan, a trailblazing figure for women in politics who later served as Australia’s first...
Australia PM on not sharing vaccine: History will be ‘severe judge’
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, seen here in March 2020, has demanded universal sharing of...
Covid-19’s long-term effects: ‘You just don’t want to get this virus if you don’t have to’
It can be tempting to think of Covid-19 patients as falling into one of two...
Former Australian cricket great Dean Jones dies after heart attack
Jones, part of Australia’s World Cup-winning side in 1987, was one of the country’s most...
Crocodile attacks snorkeller off Australian island
A man is recovering in hospital after a crocodile attacked him while he was snorkelling...
70 pilot whales now returned to sea on Tasmania’s West Coast
Rescuers working to save the survivors of Australia’s largest ever mass whale stranding say more...
Australia’s Westpac to pay record fine for money-laundering
Westpac was accused in 2019 of breaching money-laundering and counter-terrorism regulations 23 million times William...
At least 90 whales dead in mass stranding off Tasmania
At least a third of 270 whales stranded off the coast of Australia’s Tasmania have...
Briton, Australian killed clearing WWII bomb in Solomons
WWII munitions and equipment, like these shown in a village near Honiara in 2005, are...
