The Australian should expect weaker growth over the coming months as the outlook for the local economy in the first half of 2016 has declined, new figures show.
Campers in the north of Australia have been left shocked after a 17-foot-long snake was found eating a kangaroo only meters away from where they were sleeping.
Undertaking freedom of navigation exercises at the United States' beck and call would send a terrible signal to Australia's closest trading partner that the operations are a plan of containment and not a matter of international law, an Australian expert has told Xinhua.
Churches around Australia on Thursday announced they will be bringing back the age-old concept of sanctuary in order to provide protection for asylum seekers who are to be sent to detention on Nauru.
Australia has the world's highest diversity of parrots but is the third worst performing country when it comes to the risks of parrot extinction, researchers said Thursday.
Australia's Trade Minister Andrew Robb has on Thursday signed the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but rejected calls it needed an independent cost-benefit analysis.
A man who has organized a series of meetings promoting the legalization of rape could be barred from entering Australia, after Immigration Minister Peter Dutton announced he would personally look into the matter.
The Australian government on Tuesday committed to improving the rate of organ donation after a report found there were not enough donated organs to meet demands.
Australia's northern states are in the process of safeguarding themselves against the spread of the Zika virus, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a "global health emergency."
Australian counter-terrorism police have conducted raids on two homes with suspected links to a supposed doctor who appeared in an Islamic State (IS) propaganda video last year, local media reported on Monday.
Australia needs to increase economic engagement with its closest Asian neighbour or miss losing one of the most important economic opportunities over the next decade, Australia's opposition treasurer believes.
Bushfires engulfing Australian Tasmania could have detrimental long-term effects on the state's unique world heritage forests, according to conservationists.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is no longer Australia's richest person after Forbes Australia announced Australian resident Blair Parry-Okeden has ended her five year reign.
One of Australia's most prominent businessmen has called on the Australian government to almost triple its Syrian refugee intake, from 12,000 up to 30,000.
Newly-appointed Australian of the Year David Morrison has said that "unfair" religious, racial and gender-based discrimination is still rife throughout Australia, using his Australia Day speech to call for greater acceptance.
Australia's highest-ranking state politicians have united behind Prime Minister (PM) Malcolm Turnbull in a bold new campaign to become a republic.
The push to make Australia a republic has gathered pace after all but one of Australia's state and territory leaders signed a historic declaration calling for an Australian head of state.
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