#Australia

An Australian woman accused of murder denied measuring out a “fatal dose” of poisonous mushrooms on her kitchen scales to kill three elderly relatives of her estranged husband, as she ...

Flash flooding on Australia’s southeast coast has killed three people and cut off towns, isolating tens of thousands of residents, as officials on Thursday warned more downpours were expected ...

Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, a 104-year-old second world war veteran, will lead the Cypriot contingent at Friday’s march to mark Anzac Day in Sydney. Mouxouris was born in Morphou in 1921 and ...

Australian politicians were gifted about A$245,000 ($147,000) in match tickets over nearly two years by the country’s most popular sporting leagues as part of a lobbying campaign against a proposed ...

An Australian woman has given birth to a stranger’s baby after a fertility doctor accidentally implanted the wrong embryo, the clinic owner said in its apology letter while blaming ...

New Zealand and Australia said on Thursday they are each working with other nations on a possible joint response to shore up free trade against a barrage of U.S. ...

Hackers targeting Australia’s major pension funds in a series of coordinated attacks have stolen savings from some members at the biggest fund, according to a source with knowledge of ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose a 10% tariff on its ally was “not the act of a friend,” ...

More than 150 false killer whales have been stranded on an isolated beach in the Australian state of Tasmania, with rescue crews trying to save the majority of the large dolphins ...

Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws on Thursday, including mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences and displaying hate symbols, in a bid to tackle a recent surge in antisemitism. The ...

Australia on Monday launched an antisemitism task force following an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne which police say was likely terrorism. The fire early on Friday at the ...

By Byron Kaye Since Meta  whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing the tech giant knew of social media’s mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders have agonised ...

Australia’s centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for ...

People leaving Lebanon continued to arrive in Cyprus on Thursday, with flights landing at Larnaca airport and boats continuing to dock at the marinas in Larnaca and Ayia Napa as ...

A recent slump in sales means Sydney liquor store owner Louise Dowling has to work an additional 40 hours a week to make up for the staff she had to let ...

Australia’s swimming heroes Mollie O’Callaghan and Kaylee McKeown will take some time off after the Olympics and skip the World Cup legs later this year after an emotional ...

By Theo Theophanous On July 21, 2024, Melbourne’s Federation Square was filled with more than 2,000 Greeks and Greek Cypriots and their supporters. The event was to commemorate the beginning of the ...

One of the world’s youngest air forces is taking part in war games alongside cutting-edge stealth fighter jets as the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea boosts defence ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar left Cyprus for Australia on Tuesday. He is travelling to Australia to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the presence of Turkish Cypriots in the country. ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, the oldest Cypriot veteran in Australia at 103 years old, will lead the march on Anzac Day this Thursday. Originally from Morphou village, Mouxouris moved to Sydney after the 1974 ...

Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country ...

The man who fatally stabbed six people at a mall in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bondi may have targeted women, police said on Monday, as the attacker’s father ...

Australia’s Northern Territory on Wednesday imposed a two-week youth curfew in the tourist town of Alice Springs, a day after a mass brawl involving 150 people, many of them armed ...