Australian police said on Tuesday they have arrested five men after seizing 70 kilograms of cocaine allegedly imported from South America into Australia from a yacht in Queensland's Gold Coast.
Honey bees around the world could soon be wearing small, electronic transmitter devices as part of an Australia-led study into the sharp rise in the insect's mortality rate.
Tony Abbott will on Monday become Australia's first Prime Minister to visit the grave site of prominent land rights campaigner Eddie Koiki Mabo during his week- long tour of the Torres Strait Islands.
A rise in Chinese travelers to Australia boosted earnings for Sydney Airport, according to local statistics authorities.
Australian port workers sacked last week via Internet will head back to work on Friday after winning a temporary reprieve, successfully arguing Hutchison Ports Australia failed in its workplace responsibilities.
The Australian state of Western Australia (WA) has witnessed a fall in economic growth since the decline of the decade-long mining and resource boom, but the state 's leader is still confident in a strong growth.
A lack of education and cultural understanding of the Asian region is prohibiting Australia's economic growth, a business leader said at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Sydney conference on Friday.
Australia's Foreign Minister has urged Russia against obstructing a United Nations (UN) Security Council move to further investigate the MH17 disaster.
Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott will meet with the nation's eight state territory leaders at a retreat in Sydney over Wednesday and Thursday to gain common ground on the future shape of Australia's federation.
The president of Australia's New South Wales Anti-Decimation Board said on Monday that racial cohesion is facing it's greatest threat in 30 years as violence marked anti-Islam and countering anti-racism protests at the weekend.
Indigenous suicide rates in Australia are a humanitarian crisis, a report released on Tuesday said.
Australian tourism landmark opens for new business
A minister in Australia's conservative government on Thursday said Australia should not legalize same-sex marriage because no Asian country has adopted it.
Development of Western Australia's biggest gold discovery in a decade is tipped to open up a new gold mining province in inland Australia.
A former Australian spy and star witness in East Timor's dispute with the Australian government over 30 billion U.S. dollars in oil and gas revenue is facing criminal prosecution, Australian media reported on Monday.
A large accounting firm has released a report, saying multinational corporations need to move fast to counter bad media publicity rather then pay more tax.
The Australian economy has been struggling a bit in the post mining boom environment, but with an FTA with China, Australia's major trading partner, "it just gives me confidence that we'll manage to get good growth going forward," Shane Oliver, chief economist at AMP Capital, said on Wednesday.
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