The Latest Breaking News from Australia

Public relations and marketing firm Third Hemisphere has launched a new venture investment arm and made its first investment in Western Australia’s Fremantle Seaweed, signalling a significant move in the commercial scaling of climate technology solutions.

The Australian medicines regulator has issued a mental health safety warning for a drug widely used for weight loss.

Climate activists from the Rising Tide organisation have stopped coal ships from reaching Newcastle port – for a day or two. What’s their real objective?

YouTube, Reddit, Kick and X are yet to reveal compliance measures with Australia's social media ban, with kids expected to experience withdrawal symptoms.

Biggest changes to defence bureaucracy since the 1970s aim to tackle budget and timeline blowouts, government says

More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding in decades, accompanied by landslides. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia have been hit hardest. The death toll…

Dozens of departmental staff were sent to Brazil for the United Nations climate conference, costing the government almost two million dollars.

Clinton Fernandes has established himself as one of the most original and insightful analysts of Australian security policy. An early career with the Australian Army Intelligence Corps no doubt gave him an inside view of the ideas that influence security policy in this country.

Rising interest rates in the world's third-largest bond market have investors weighing the benefits of fixed interest against fading growth in equities.