Australia has the highest proportion of recreational drug users in the world, according to the United Nation's 2014 World Drug Report, local media reported Monday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived here on Monday to begin his four-day visit to Australia.
It would be "foolish" for Australia to let itself to be drawn into any kind of strategic alignment with Japan that would be directed against China, warned Hugh White, a renowned Australian strategist.
Indigenous Australia has remained a blind spot for successive governments and the drive for economic and social equality has come under renewed scrutiny in 2014.
The electricity sector in Australia is aging, inefficient and unprepared, which may lead to significant economic and environmental risks, according a report released on Tuesday by Climate Council, a non-profit climate policy advocating organization.
Australia's strategic and military alliance with the United States was more important now than any other time in the nation's history, according to Australian ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley.
Japan and Australia will hold their "two-plus-two" meeting Wednesday with an eye on enhancing bilateral defense cooperation.
Australia could become the world's nuclear waste dump, which would give the local economy a major boost, former prime minister Bob Hawke told reporters on Wednesday.
Australia could become the world's nuclear waste dump, which would give the local economy a major boost, former prime minister Bob Hawke told reporters on Wednesday.
Despite Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government's claiming victory over illegal migrants arriving by boat to Australia, opposition to the coalition's hardline refugee policies is coalescing around human rights concerns which was expressed Thursday night at a candlelight vigil in Sydney.
The legendary Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil came away from the star-studded awarded the Cannes Film Festival with the Best Actor Award -- capping off a career that has both amazed and suffered in the relative silence of Australian film.
Australian government on Monday said it has no information linking Kenya to last week's seizure of heroin with a street value of 290 million U.S. dollars.
Australia will be able to sell uranium to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between Australia and UAE, a press release by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said on Tuesday.
Australian end-to-end payments leader Cuscal has announced on Monday that an ATM access partnership has been established with UnionPay.
Australia's agriculture sector is beefing up for a new trade paradigm as urgent calls for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) coincide with a renewed vision for the role Australia's vast, and under-utilized food resources can play in the "Asian Century."
Australia's leading foreign policy think-tank, came out swinging, Wednesday, on the dormant debate over a "Big Australia" an Australia that seeks to assume a greater role in regional affairs through ambitious social, economic and eventually military growth.
While the once all-encompassing Australian miners were at the top of the trade food chain this time last year, another tough day of trading on the (Australia Stock Exchange) ASX is expected, after the iron ore price dropped its largest one-day fall in more than four years Monday on shivers over Chinese data.
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