Browsing: Australian

Merrilees Ritchie describes it as an “out of body experience”. It felt as if she was watching from above her kitchen table in Albany, Western Australia,…

Stargazers and night owls in Australia will be in prime position to catch a glimpse of two spectacular meteor showers this week as they pass through…

Tim Winton knows what it’s like to be the first in a family to go to university – “what a breakthrough that is, the kind of…

The legal drama surrounding The Deb, Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut, has made landfall in Australia, with one of the production companies behind the venture filing a…

The boss of Australia’s human rights commission has questioned Labor’s moves to make Asio’s powers for compulsory questioning permanent, warning a planned expansion of the 9/11-era…

Labor’s move to lift restrictions on imports of US beef is not related to Donald Trump’s escalating tariff war, the agriculture minister has claimed, despite coming…

The Australian government faces having to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the American oil and gas company Chevron to help it clean up oil…

Walter Sofronoff was fully aware of the “destructive” potential of leaking confidential documents relating to his inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann to journalists, the…

The thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza from Israel’s bombing campaign are “indefensible”, minister Tony Burke has said, after Australia joined 27 other countries condemning Israel…

Fixing the nation’s broken environment protection laws is the most important reform the Albanese government can pursue to boost productivity, and holds the key to meeting…