Australia

Foreign ministers from Japan, the United States, Australia and India were committed Friday to advancing United Nations reform including an increase in permanent seats on its Security Council, as the world body faces challenges amid Russia's…

Construction firms from Japan and Australia have started work on a 182-meter-high skyscraper in central Sydney in a collaboration to build what will be the world's tallest hybrid-timber building using an eco-friendly wood product.…

The high cost of global travel right now is fueling Australia's worker shortage, the country's trade minister said, with the jobs market the tightest it's been in almost 50 years as the Covid-19 crisis eases. Pre-pandemic, foreign students…

Long Covid is costing the Australian economy the equivalent of A$5.2 billion (S$5 billion) a year in lost output, the Australian Financial Review reported. Based on data from the country's Treasury estimating some 31,000 workers called in…

Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have recovered strongly in the past year, with the highest levels of coral cover seen in nearly four decades, a government report said on Thursday (Aug 4). A marine heatwave that hit the reef…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled plans for a referendum on changing the Australian constitution to set up a representative indigenous body in parliament, moving a step closer to fulfilling a major part of his policy agenda. In a…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said China's sanctions on Australian goods, including coal, should be lifted immediately. "There is no justification for these sanctions on Australian products and they all should be lifted,"…

Australians are sharply divided over whether to join any military action to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, despite record-high levels of support for the US alliance and growing unease towards Beijing's intentions on the world…

Australia is battling its first serious influenza outbreak since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving the authorities struggling to persuade a vaccine-weary public to get flu shots. Official data showed there were 65,770 flu cases…

Australia welcomed reassurances from the Solomon Islands that it would not allow China to install a military base on its territory, helping to assuage concerns about Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific region. Australia's new…