President Joe Biden has signed an executive order overturning Donald Trump’s controversial ban on transgender people joining the US military. Key points: Former president Barack Obama...
You could not get a more symbolic portrait of Australia in 2021 than Daniel Theophanou — the drag queen son of a Greek immigrant, resplendent in...
A Papua New Guinean governor has criticised Australia’s response to a plan to establish a Chinese fisheries park on PNG’s border, saying Australia wants the “status...
Amongst the celebrations, discussions and debates that are taking place this Australia Day, there will be a certain group marking the 40th anniversary of the Australian...
Balladhu Wiradjuri gibir. Dyiramadalinya badhu Wiradjuri. This is who I am. Before anything else, I am a Wiradjuri man. I am a proud Wiradjuri man. This...
Heat is more dangerous than the cold in most Australian regions. About 2 per cent of deaths in Australia between 2006 and 2017 were associated with the heat, and...
Australia has paused quarantine-free travel from New Zealand for at least three days. All it took was one case of a highly transmissible COVID-19 variant in...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for “an open world economy” in an address to the World Economic Forum, saying that excellence rather than “wrestling” should...
Indian and Chinese troops have clashed again at a disputed stretch of their shared border. Key points: The latest flare up came in the Indian state...
Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10, officials have said. Key...