Australian police will use lightweight spy-type cameras to patrol Brisbane during the G20 world leaders' summit in November in an effort to be more transparent in controlling crowds, local media revealed on Friday.
Sri Lanka's military on Wednesday denied sending a boat to pick up 153 asylum seekers believed to have been on board a ship stranded in Australian waters, an official said.
Up to 75,000 Australian mining jobs will be lost in the next couple of years as the industry's 450 billion Australian dollar (427 billion U.S. dollar) investment on new capacity slows, according to research by the ANZ bank released on Wednesday.
Floating electrical devices are set to replace shark nets in an effort to protect Australian beachgoers, local media reported Sunday.
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.
The return of Chinese domestic iron ore producers to an already over-supplied market and a slowdown in China's residential property sector have contributed to the price of iron ore dipping below 100 U.S. dollars a tonne, according to Australian analysts.
Australia has woken to the toughest fiscal tightening in a generation with controversy over broken political promises overshadowed by the determination of the Coalition Government to reel in the national deficit.
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.
The Australian government will launch a new 13 million AU dollars (12.2 million U.S. dollars) instrument which help astronomers to explore the origins of the Milky Way at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) at Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane announced Wednesday.
About 10 planes and nine ships combed a broader swathe of sea in southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday but left searchers with no sign of the Malaysian MH370 jetliner more than three weeks after it vanished.
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean ended for Tuesday with "no significant developments," Australian maritime authorities said.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday refused to put a time limit on the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 although the multinational search efforts have turned out to be fruitless since the jetliner vanished in the southern Indian Ocean on March 8.
The search and recovery operation for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will continue Thursday, with six military aircraft, five civil aircraft and five ships in the Australian Search and Rescue Region, Australian Maritime Safety Agency said (AMSA).
Aircraft from six nations were taking off from the southwest Australian city of Perth in staggered schedule of departures to comb the southern Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday that the case of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has entered the phase of recovery and investigation.
An Australian P-3C Orion aircraft has returned to Perth after failing to locate objects possibly related to a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said on Thursday.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced on Thursday that objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 had been found in the southern Indian Ocean.
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