Australia's opposition has on Wednesday called on the immigration minister to allow family members of a dying Pakistani student to come and visit their terminally ill son.
Australia's first cyclone of the season could batter the country's remote northeast next week as monsoon conditions develop, meteorologists said on Tuesday.
An Australian state government has outlined its plan to increase the smoking age well above the national standard of 18.
For the first time in years Glenn Stevens probably won’t be asking for a weaker Australian dollar for Christmas.
Australia's government has won its case against tobacco giant Phillip Morris, fighting off an investor-state dispute challenge to its controversial tobacco plain packaging laws.
Serious and organized crime is costing Australia more than 26 billion U.S dollars every year, according to Justice Minister Michael Keenan on Friday.
More Australians than ever before are reaching the milestone of turning 100 years of age, according to new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday.
The number of Australians who have funded international terrorist organisations, including Islamic State, has tripled in the past 12 months.
Australia's budget deficit will blow out to 37.4 billion Australian dollars in the year to June in what is set to be a struggling economy for the island nation over the next few years.
The Australian city of Melbourne is bracing for its hottest December day in five years, with the mercury tipped to climb as high as 40 degrees Celsius at the weekend, heightening fears of a more damaging bushfires.
Australia's state and territory leaders have agreed with a proposal for indefinite detention of convicted terrorists, a similar measure used for convicted paedophiles unless they can prove they have reformed.
Australia's largest oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum on Friday announced it had approved a 2 billion U.S. dollars gas development on Australia's north west shelf.
Australia's Prime Minister has on Friday pushed state and territory leaders to back indefinite detention for convicted terrorists, under new laws proposed at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting.
Australia's unemployment rate has dropped to an almost two-year low, according to new data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.
Australian road signs could soon be translated into Mandarin in a move to attract more Chinese tourists, and make it easier for the growing number of "self-drive" Chinese tourists to find their way around the country.
The term "sharing economy" has been chosen as Australia's word of the year 2015, the Australian National Dictionary Center announced on Wednesday.
A billionaire Indian businessman has reportedly met with Australia's prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, seeking new laws that prohibit court actions against controversial environmental approvals for major projects.
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