Officials at an Australian immigration center in Papua New Guinea are increasing pressure on asylum seekers to return to their home countries voluntarily, including offering large sums of money, amid fears a deal for the United States to take refugees has fallen through.
Global terrorist organization the Islamic State (IS) called for its followers to kill three prominent Australian muslim clerics on Tuesday.
One of the heavyweights in the Australian financial industry, AMP has reported a full year 344 million (Australian dollar) net loss on Thursday, with an underlying profit of 486 million (Australian dollars).
Australian army chief Angus Campbell will meet Indonesian military leaders in Jakarta on Wednesday, after defense cooperation was suspended last month over "insulting" teaching material found at an Australian base.
Australian facilities management firm Spotless Group announced Tuesday it is in talks with U.S.-based Tesla to install thousands of electric car-charging stations across Australia.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an agreement of unprecedented scope and ambition, which the Australian government will continue to advocate strongly, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Steven Ciobo said on Sunday.
Vegemite, the salty yeast-based spread beloved by Australians, is returning Down Under after decades of US ownership.
Australian authorities have begun to clear homeless people out of Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open in late January.
Australia on Thursday rejected claims it tried to “recruit” Indonesia’s best soldiers as it worked to mend relations with Jakarta after military ties were suspended.
Critics within Turnbull’s own conservative Liberal Party have suggested his support for a republic would be damaging to the government
A majority of Australian MPs want to break ties with the British monarchy, the nation's republican lobby claims.
A majority in both the lower and upper houses of federal parliament support Australia becoming a republic, the republican movement has claimed.
Australia's coalition government continues to trail the Labor opposition in the latest public Newspoll, while a separate study showed almost a third of all Australians were overall dissatisfied with the nation's current parliamentary system.
The China Chamber of Commerce in Australia marked a decade of building business ties between the two countries with a banquet on Tuesday evening in Sydney that befitted the growing importance of bilateral trade and investment.
Camel milk, now hugely popular among Australians and claimed to help with autism, diabetes and cancer, could be nothing but a dodgy product with untrue health claims, An Australian consumer watchdog has said.
An international study has found has found that Australian children are not as fit as those from nations such as Tanzania, Iceland and Estonia, but are comfortably fitter than those from the United States and Mexico.
The Australian government is set to undertake a major review of the nation's six intelligence agencies, as a response to the changing face of terrorism as well as the growing threat posed by cyber-spying.
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