A drastic proposal to merge inner-city municipalities into a single mega-council has been floated as a “last resort” option as mayors entertain redrawing boundaries to cope with crushing financial pressures.
The Australian government has told dependents of Australian diplomats in Israel and Lebanon to leave the two Middle East countries, citing a deteriorating security situation in the region, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
18-year-old Arvid Lindblad is about to become Britain's youngest ever Formula 1 driver when he makes his debut this season. BBC Sport's Andrew Benson met with him ahead of the opening race in Australia.
A former broadcaster at BBC, CNN and ESPN, Jason began his career at The Sydney Morning Herald. He spent two decades in Asia where he was a columnist for South China Morning Post and presented his own show on Singapore's Money FM. Jason is a digital producer for ABC News, while working as a TV presenter for APAC Net…
The medical and education records of more than 4000 children aged 10 to 16 will be monitored for more than two years as part of a major study evaluating the impact of Australia’s world-first under-16s social media ban on young people and their families.
MANILA, Philippines — Converge rookie Juan Gomez De Liano made the final 12, while his teammate Justine Baltazar, along with Ginebra’s Troy Rosario and RJ Abarrientos were left out as Gilas coach Tim Cone opted to put premium on familiarity of the team system as the Philippines go to war against New Zealand and Aust…
MANILA, Philippines — Converge rookie Juan Gomez De Liano made the final 12, while his teammate Justine Baltazar, along with Ginebra’s Troy Rosario and RJ Abarrientos were left out as Gilas coach Tim Cone opted to put premium on familiarity of the team system as the Philippines go to war against New Zealand and Aust…
Khaled Sabsabi, the Lebanese Australian artist who was controversially axed then reinstated as Australia's representative at the Venice Biennale, will now bring two works to the event. (ABC News: Teresa Tan)
Dependents of officials posted in Israel and Lebanon have been directed to leave by the Australian government, as tensions in the Middle East heighten again.
Western Australia’s government is facing legal action from an Aboriginal corporation which wants the Federal Court to force it to clean up asbestos contamination from the Wittenoom mine.
The Queensland government has brushed aside a call to introduce a needle-exchange program in the state’s prisons, after reports hundreds of former prisoners may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis C by sharing injecting equipment.
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A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.
Israel’s peripatetic President Isaac Herzog is on the move again. Barely two weeks after his return from Australia, Herzog began a two-day state visit to Ethiopia on Tuesday.