Australia

Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffered a "catastrophic die-off" of coral during an extended heatwave in 2016, threatening a broader range...

Boasting a green, punk hairdo and the unusual ability to breathe through its backside, an Australian turtle has become famous...

An export ship due to carry more than 50,000 sheep to the Middle East has been blocked from leaving Australia...

Many Australians see the Commonwealth Games as a sporting celebration, but for some Aboriginal activists they symbolise invasion, dispossession and...

Former Test vice-captain David Warner said he realised he may never play for his country again as he tearfully apologised...

All indigenous languages in Australia descend from a single common tongue, a study revealed Wednesday in findings that shed new...

An ultra-fine biodegradable film some 50,000 times thinner than a human hair could be enlisted to protect the Great Barrier...

Sports-loving Australia is in uproar over the ball-tampering scandal that has ensnared the national cricket team in South Africa with...

Twenty-three members of the same family have been removed from a cruise ship near Sydney after a brawl that left...

Australia's parliamentary sex scandal opened a rift in the governing coalition on Friday as deputy leader Barnaby Joyce described Prime...