The Latest Breaking News from Australia

Tasmania set to bid for 2026 Commonwealth Games

Hobart and Launceston could host the 2026 Commonwealth Games under a bold bid to take the athletic showpiece to Tasmania.

ABC News · Feb 10, 2022

Australia’s Pine Gap ‘hugely important’ to western monitoring of China, says former British spy chief

Richard Dearlove discusses facility’s role in monitoring China’s ‘rather alarming’ activities

The Guardian - AU · Feb 10, 2022

Coalition shelves religious discrimination bill after Christian lobby says changes do ‘more harm than good’

Equality Australia says mess is of Coalition’s own making and could have been avoided ‘if government had fulfilled its commitment’ to protect students

The Guardian - AU · Feb 10, 2022

I grew up in a Christian school – and the religious discrimination bill must be scrapped to protect our children

The message pushed at some of Australia’s religious schools can be a suicide risk factor for some children – how can our law empower that?

The Guardian - AU · Feb 10, 2022

Will the government's $2.2bn, 10-year plan get a better return on Australian research? It all depends on changing the culture

Over the past few years, the Morrison government has made A$2 billion funding commitments to everything from the critical minerals and rare earths industry to bushfire recovery. Now the government has made yet another $2 billion announcement of an “action plan to supercharge research commercialisation”. It’s a longstanding challenge, one…

The Conversation · Feb 10, 2022

Chinese visitors unlikely to return to Australia in large numbers, despite border reopening

Chinese tourists used to spend three times as much as Americans in Australia, but several factors mean they are unlikely to come back in significant numbers any time soon.

ABC News · Feb 10, 2022

Winter Olympics day six – as it happened

Day six of XXIV Olympic Winter Games

The Guardian - US · Feb 10, 2022

Scotty James, Valentino Guseli aim to soar in snowboard halfpipe final at Beijing Winter Olympics

The Australian teenage snowboarding star's maturity is on full show as he joins medal hope Scotty James in Friday's halfpipe final.

ABC News · Feb 10, 2022

AGL brings forward closure date of two largest coal-fired power plants as market shifts to renewables

Climate groups dismiss energy giant’s amended schedule for Loy Yang A and Bayswater as a ‘token effort’ that is ‘next to meaningless’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 9, 2022

Five Great Reads: Tame and Higgins speak, frog eats dart, and screamo Sheeran

Guardian Australia’s weekday wrap of good writing and compelling stories, selected by Rafqa Touma

The Guardian - AU · Feb 9, 2022