Australia

Authorities are searching for a missing swimmer at a popular Sydney swimming spot after the body of a woman swept out to sea was retrieved at a nearby beach.

Australia’s meat industry will lobby China after being slapped with enormous new year tariffs.

There is record-breaking rainfall across Queensland’s north, with emergency crews racing to reconnect cut-off communities.

Respectful revellers have welcomed the new year at largely trouble-free celebrations across the nation, as a highly visible police presence deterred violence.

One of Melbourne’s most iconic streets became the scene of a horror New Year’s Eve attack that left two people seriously injured.

John Howard’s Defence and foreign affairs ministers told him not to return Australian special forces to Afghanistan in 2005, new Cabinet papers reveal.

A driver was shocked to find their usual path across a bridge was being stalked by a huge crocodile.

Safety agencies are assessing if a cruise ship that ran aground off PNG is seaworthy after it was refloated and its 80 passengers flown back to Australia.

Police are now urgently searching for a 14-year-old boy who may have been a passenger on the boat.

Police hold concerns for the welfare of six-year-old Charlie.

The former TV chef has spoken out after years of anti-Semitic hate forced him to close down his Jewish bakery.

It was a Happy New Year and a Happily Ever After for Matildas star Sam Kerr as she tied the knot with US soccer player Kristie Mewis in her home town.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has declared anti-Semitism needs to be purged from the Labor Party, as an influential Jewish group called for Federal Labor ministers to be barred from Jewish events.

Fantasising about a ‘job at Bunnings’ after a stressful year at the office? You’re not alone.

A cut to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme co-payment will slash the cost of medicines but Australians face higher power bills in the new year.