The Latest Breaking News from Australia

Greenberg makes long-term call on pink-ball Tests

Brisbane could continue to host some day-night Tests instead of Adelaide, but the pink-ball fixtures are staying on Australia's calendar until at least 2031.

AAP · Dec 17, 2025

Solar, onshore wind and gas backup is (still) the cheapest way to power Australia: new report

What’s the cheapest way to power Australia? Every year, CSIRO researchers and modellers seek to answer this very large question in their GenCost report.

The Conversation · Dec 17, 2025

How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater

Indigenous people have coexisted with Australia’s vast and ancient groundwater systems for thousands of generations. Their knowledge extends back through deep time, before our current climate and waterways. It offers insights that Western science is only beginning to quantify.

The Conversation · Dec 17, 2025

Elon Musk’s X wins appeal to lift block on Australians seeing Charlie Kirk shooting footage

In successful challenge, X argued the video wasn’t excessively offensive and was an objective record of a ‘public event of historical and political significance’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 17, 2025

The long journeys of Sydney to Hobart's exotic yachts

For some of the Sydney to Hobart's international entrants, the trip to Constitution Dock pales in comparison to the journey to the starting line.

AAP · Dec 17, 2025

Heartbreaking tribute from father of youngest Bondi attack victim: ‘Remember her’

The father of the youngest victim of Australia’s Bondi Beach mass shooting gave an emotional tribute to his 10-year-old daughter, Matilda, at a vigil for victims on Tuesday December 16.

The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2025

Funeral of British-born Bondi attack victim Rabbi Eli Schlanger takes place

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese said he expected the surviving suspect following the Bondi terror attack to be charged soon.

Evening Standard · Dec 17, 2025

Grief, tears and anger as funerals for people slain in Australian antisemitic mass shooting begin

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims of an antisemitic mass shooting

The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2025

Trump opens White House Hanukkah celebration with ‘love and prayers’ to people of Australia over antisemitic terrorist attack

Trump began the ceremony on the third night of the Jewish holiday by paying tribute to the victims of the mass shooting in Sydney

The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2025

'Australian heroes': more tales of Bondi victim bravery

A retired mechanic and an Australia Post worker tried to stop the Bondi terror attack as it began, in another tale of heroism that led to their murder.

AAP · Dec 17, 2025