The Latest Breaking News from Christmas Island

Zainal Abdul Majid remembers December 15 as a fateful day when over 50 asylum seekers died crashing onto Christmas Island as they sought refuge in Australia.

Cost of living bites Christmas Islanders particularly hard with all their food imported but a budding hydroponic farm could grow into a sustainable solution

Preserved by their remoteness, Christmas Island's Chinese cemeteries stand as a rare moment in time to long lost traditions.

Farzian Zainal, a fourth-generation Malay Muslim, is the first locally-born and bred Australian administrator of the Christmas and Cocos Islands.

Christmas Island features Andrew Walker in a new Countdown to Christmas 2023 movie. Here's everything we know about the new Hallmark Channel movie.

The new play will debut at The Street Theatre on November 10.

Exclusive: detention centre will remain open and advocates question why government isn’t heeding UN call to close it

When Australians vote on the Voice to Parliament referendum on October 14, ballots from the Northern Territory and the ACT will be treated differently from those of the states. The same goes for votes cast by residents of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

The rare footage was taken when filming the red crab migration on Christmas Island.

In September 2017, I interviewed a senior figure within the Australian Labor Party in his office in Canberra. At one point in our discussion he told me:

Parks authorities are on track to remove most cats from the island by the end of 2023, but first they needed to stop giant crabs messing with their traps.