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Australia's government said on Friday it plans to introduce new regulations targeting vehicle carbon emissions to boost the uptake of electric cars, as it looks to catch up with other developed economies.

Afghanistan's Olympic flag-bearer makes Australia home

Screen legend Olivia Newton-John will be honoured with a state memorial service in her adoptive homeland Australia.

With just a few events to go on Monday, Australia lead the way with 66 golds, 11 ahead of hosts England.

Australia lead the way in the overall medals tally with 46 golds, seven ahead of England, with Canada in third place on 16.

A little more than half of the properties being auctioned are selling in most main cities, down from three quarters as recently as March.

Australia said on Monday it will decide whether to curb exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after a watchdog urged restrictions.

Australian home prices slid for a third month in July and the pace quickened as Sydney suffered its worst decline in almost 40 years amid rising borrowing costs and a cost-of-living crisis.

Australia sees the world's climate emergency as an opportunity to create jobs.

The number of Australians admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 hit a record of about 5,450 on Monday, official data showed, as the spread of highly contagious new Omicron sub-variants strains the healthcare system nationwide.

An Australian man's cigarette break cost the life of his nine-month-old daughter in April last year.

Australian buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firm Zip Co Ltd dumped a buyout of U.S.

A baby seal was found almost 3 miles away from its home in the ocean at a farm in South Australia on Thursday.

The accord was the first free trade deal to be signed since Britain's formal departure from the European Union at the start of 2021.

Torrential rain is lashing Australia's southeast coast, forcing thousands of people from their homes because of the danger of floods and landslides in a region battered by major flooding four times in the past 18 months.

Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains triggered floods for the third time this year in some low-lying suburbs.

Australia has been at the sharp end of climate change, with droughts, deadly bushfires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change.

Uber Technologies Inc and Australia's main transport union agreed on Tuesday to back a federal body that enforces minimum pay for the company's drivers, joining a global thawing of relations between the ride-hailing giant and industrial bodies.

Australia's sex discrimination commissioner has called for urgent changes in the country's mining industry after a state government report found that sexual harassment and assault were rife in the sector.

Top liquefied natural gas exporter Australia is in the depths of a power crunch just as traditional buyers are scrambling to meet shortfalls of Russian gas and winter takes hold Down Under.

Neighbours, the Australian soap opera that launched the careers of Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce and all three Hemsworth brothers, shot its last episode on Friday, wrapping the country's longest-running television drama after four decades.

Europe's race to replace Russian gas supply has threatened Australia's plans for five gas import terminals as they compete for key infrastructure, raising the risk of a supply shortfall in Australia's populous southeast in the next two years.

A survey by a customer review and consumer news platform in the US has found that millennials love their pets more than their siblings.

India has developed close ties with Washington in recent years and is a vital part of the Quad grouping aimed at pushing back against China.

On the second leg of his first Asia trip as president, Biden is to meet with leaders of Japan, India and Australia

The police are carrying out an investigation into the death of a diver who was found unconscious in the water with nearly 50kg of cocaine floating around him in the New South Wales Port of Newcastle.

A 51-year-old Australian man has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for the 1988 homophobic murder of an American. The victim was 27 years old at the time of the incident.

Scores of headless penguin bodies washed up on beaches surrounding Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula in the month of April, leaving scientists and researchers shocked.

At least 54 reptiles, including crocodiles and pythons, perished in a fire that broke at the garage of a house they were being kept in by a reptile handler in Queensland, Australia.

Tourists from visa-waiver countries including the United States, Britain and Singapore will now be able to visit from May 1