Australia

Australia’s beef industry fears an almost $1 billion hit after China slapped new trade restrictions on meat producers across the globe in a move the Albanese Government branded ‘very disappointing’.

One suspect allegedly bolted onto a roof after encountering a naked resident.

Australian officials are trying to confirm reports that Russell Allen Wilson was killed by Russian forces near Pokrovsk, in Ukraine’s eastern region, in early December.

It’s the second controversy the Coral Adventurer has been involved in within a few months.

A teenager has been charged over the blaze raging in Perth’s east, allegedly throwing a firecracker into bushland in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

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.