Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, left, and Canada’s Secretary of State Stephen Fuhr speak to the media after signing an agreement on export of an Over-the-Horizon Radar system at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, June 22, 2026. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
The deadly strain of bird flu that arrived in Australia last week would threaten a list of 100 native animal species, including birds, land and sea mammals, that state and federal government agencies are scrambling to spare from mass deaths.
Parents at a rapidly growing Brisbane state primary school are asking the Queensland government to carve a chunk out of a nearby 7.1-hectare land parcel for a second school that they say has been long promised.
The foreign investment firm which owns half of a troubled central Queensland coal-fired power station has sued its state-owned partner for more than a billion dollars.
A victim of appalling sexual abuse at a Catholic girls school in Essendon has reached a $1 million settlement just a day before the case was due to proceed to trial, but says the protracted legal negotiations have exacerbated her trauma.
One of Solomon Islands’ most senior ministers has called for security and policing co-operation with China to be sidelined in a boost for Australia’s efforts to counter Beijing’s influence in the Pacific.
Queensland has ruled out offering a coal royalties holiday to woo large investments in new mines, refusing to budge on the tax setting under intense pressure from industry heavyweights.
Australia’s medical watchdog is facing a backlash from more than 1400 health workers after adopting a controversial definition of antisemitism to assess complaints against practitioners.
Gateway Mining has bagged a new high-grade gold discovery at its sprawling Yandal gold project in Western Australia, with maiden drilling at its Cowza prospect hitting a previously untested and highly prospective geological contact.
In this photo provided by the Australian Federal Police, a man, center, is arrested by police in Londonderry in western Sydney, Friday, June 19, 2026. (Australian Federal Police via AP)
Colleen Harkin was facing potential expulsion from the Liberal Party for attending a One Nation fundraiser before the perennial candidate announced her resignation at the weekend.
Powerhouse sprinter Eddie Nketia will represent Australia for the first time at the Commonwealth Games after he was named in the track and field team for Glasgow on Monday.
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A first home buyer renting locally paid $725,000 for a one-bedroom Redfern unit sold by an investor at auction on Saturday, as Sydney’s preliminary auction clearance rate fell to 47 per cent.
Fears are growing a deadly avian flu strain discovered in Australia’s largest state is spreading, with 16 sick or dead birds reported, although the government is calling for calm.
Brooke Tindall is a rural reporter for North Queensland. She grew up in the region and completed her bachelor of communication studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. She has now moved back closer to home and works from the Townsville bureau. She is interested in farming and stories about the loc…
El lanzador de los Cerveceros de Milwaukee, Robert Gasser (54), lanza durante la primera entrada de un partido de béisbol contra los Bravos de Atlanta, el domingo 21 de junio de 2026, en Atlanta. (Foto AP/Erik Rank)
More than 2½ tonnes of cocaine has been found in underground bunkers at a western Sydney property in what police allege is the largest seizure of the drug in Australia.
Two new free mental health support centres have opened in Bunbury and Kalamunda, after new federal government figures revealed just one clinic in Perth’s east had delivered more than 25,000 appointments since it opened.