Firefighters were desperately trying to stop a cluster of fast-moving blazes in southeast Australia on Tuesday, as thousands ...

Voluntary assisted dying is lawful in all Australian states. This allows terminally ill adults who are suffering and have decision-making capacity to choose to receive help to die. Victoria’s law was ...

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show prisoner numbers are growing in every Australian state and territory — ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Australian police are investigating whether explosives found in a caravan days ago in Sydney, the capital city of Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW), were intended ...

Australia's southeast sweltered in a heatwave on Monday, raising the bushfire risk and prompting authorities to issue fire bans for several parts of Victoria state. The extreme temperatures brought ...

The seat of North Sydney, held by independent MP Kylea Tink, has been abolished, as has the Labor-held Melbourne seat of ...

Grampians and Little Desert Rock National Parks Under Fire Siege As Weather Conditions Set to Worsen and Increase Wildfire ...

SYDNEY: Australia's southeast sweltered in a heatwave ... that the temperature could reach 41 degrees Celsius in Victoria's capital Melbourne, more than 14 degrees Celsius above the city's mean ...

Thousands of people are gathering at Invasion Day rallies across the country, backing calls to abolish or change the date of ...

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield on Wednesday — ...

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of ...