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Team captain and two other players arrested over alleged soccer match-fixing in Australia
Australian professional soccer has been rocked by accusations that the captain of A-League club Macarthur FC paid two younger teammates up to 10,000 Australian dollars ($6,600) to deliberately receive yellow cards in a scheme set up by a South ...ABC News - Sports - Australia -
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Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait
NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira. Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of ...The Guardian - World - Australia -
Australian Government's Budget Bets On Rapid Fall In Inflation
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has framed the center-left Labor government’s 2024-2025 budget around the themes of cost of living relief, income tax cuts and the tantalizing prospect of a fall in mortgage interest rates by early next year.The Wall Street Journal - World - Australia -
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Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless Aukus laws changed, critics say
Labor-chaired inquiry calls for legislation to rule out accepting high-level nuclear waste from US and UK submarines among other recommendations. Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia risks becoming the ...The Guardian - World - Australia -
Musk’s X wins Australia court fight over censorship of church stabbing video
Billionaire’s social media platform said takedown request set ‘dangerous precedent’ for open internetFinancial Times - Business - Australia -
Australia tries to stop a violence against women 'epidemic', starting with schools
As the nation reels from the Bondi Junction stabbings, what can be done to shift behaviour?BBC News - Top stories - Australia -
Rwandans arrive in Australia after perilous journey to claim asylum
Hunters reportedly find five Rwandan men in mangroves on Saibai Island, a known crocodile habitat. As the UK government continues its push to forcibly remove asylum seekers to Rwanda, a group of Rwandan nationals has claimed asylum in Australia ...The Guardian - World - Australia -
Big Tech regulatory crackdown spreads to Asia and Australia
Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow EU and US in trying to rein in dominance of Apple and GoogleFinancial Times - World - Australia -
Australia and Tuvalu strike new security deal that eases the tiny nation's sovereignty concerns
Australia has struck a new security deal with Tuvalu after critics complained that a previous pact created an Australian veto power over any other agreement the tiny South Pacific island nation pursued with a third country, such as ChinaABC News - World - Australia -
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Australia poised to win race to host Rugby League World Cup in 2026
France 2025 was called off due to financial concernsAustralia understood to have won tender processAustralia are the frontrunners to win the race to host the next Rugby League World Cup in 2026, with an announcement expected about the rearranged ...The Guardian - World - Australia -
Australia’s central bank says higher inflation could push rate cuts to 2025
RBA raises forecast for price growth in hawkish shift as global central banks pivot to higher-for-longer ratesFinancial Times - World - Australia -
Five men in custody after ‘unauthorised’ crossing into Australia through Torres Strait
Australian Border Force officers picked up the men, believed to be Rwandan nationals, on Saibai Island, near Papua New Guinea. Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralian border authorities have picked up ...The Guardian - World - Australia -
Australian police shoot armed teenager after stabbing attack
The incident occurred in the parking lot of a hardware store in Willetton, a suburb in the west coast city of Perth, on Saturday night.CBS News - Top stories - Australia -
Australian police shoot boy armed with knife dead
Police say there were signs the boy was radicalised online.BBC News - Top stories - Australia -
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Pro-Palestinian protesters set up encampments at universities in Australia
Pro-Palestinian protesters are camped on university campuses across Australia, with some scuffling with pro-Israel protesters in Sydney, mirroring similar events in the United StatesABC News - World - Australia -
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Fearing Trump’s tariffs, one bank has ratcheted up rate forecasts — in Australia
In the world of finance everything’s connected, including the likelihood of President Donald Trump returning to office and Australian interest rates.MarketWatch - Business - Australia -
Australia expelled two Indian intelligence operatives in 2020 as part of ‘nest of spies’, reports claim
Asio director general Mike Burgess had referred to expulsion of foreign operatives in 2021 speech but did not name country behind threat . Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or ...The Guardian - World - Australia -
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Australia's Manufacturing PMI Shows Signs of Recovery
Activity across Australia’s manufacturing sector improved strongly in April but it is too soon to call an end to a cyclical downswing in the sector seen over the last year.The Wall Street Journal - World - Australia -
Australian Low-Cost Carrier Bonza Goes Into Administration
Bonza, a startup low-cost carrier in Australia that competed with local heavyweights Qantas and Virgin Australia on some routes, has gone into administration, a process similar to U.S. bankruptcy.The Wall Street Journal - Business - Australia -
Australia Shares Set to Build on Week-Opening Gains
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 looks set to edge higher at the open, building on its week-opening gains following a positive lead by U.S. equities.The Wall Street Journal - World - Australia -
Eye Opener: Australia beachgoers save whales washed up on shore
Beachgoers in Australia helped save a pod of whales that washed up on shore, with more than 100 volunteers helping out. Meanwhile, campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war are spreading internationally. All that and all that matters in today’s ...CBS News - Top stories - Australia -
Australia's Grace Kim opens 4-stroke lead in LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship
Grace Kim opened a four-stroke lead Friday in the LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship, shooting a 5-under 66 in tricky afternoon conditions at Wilshire Country ClubABC News - Sports - Australia -
100 Pilot Whales Are Rescued After Mass Stranding in Australia
Of the 160 whales stranded near the town of Dunsborough on Thursday morning, more than 100 were returned to the ocean. Twenty-nine others, however, died on the beach.The New York Times - World - Australia -
How Australia Struggled to Get Elon Musk's X to Remove Video of a Terrorist Attack
Musk argues that agreeing to hide footage of the stabbing of a bishop from users worldwide would risk allowing any country to control the entire internet.The Wall Street Journal - Tech - Australia -
NFL to open academy in Australia to identify and develop young prospects
The NFL will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy in rugby-mad Australia to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region into college and pro prospectsABC News - Sports - Australia -
More than 100 pilot whales are rescued after being stranded in Western Australia
More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast have returned to sea, while 31 died on the shore, a whale researcher said.NBC News - Top stories - Australia -
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Australian Journalist Says She Had No Choice But to Leave India
Avani Dias said that she had been denied a visa renewal for weeks because of her reporting on the Sikh separatist movement. Indian officials disputed her account.The New York Times - World - Australia -
Row erupts over portraits of Australia's richest woman
Gina Rinehart's campaign to have two portraits removed has sparked debate about art and censorship.BBC News - Top stories