The Latest Breaking News from Australia

Australia’s embassy in Brussels swiftly deletes some posts after questions from Crikey.

Australia has been unique in the anglosphere for decades, as its independent publishers have resisted the forces of conglomeration and remained privately owned – often by their founders. But this week the third independent publisher in less than six months has merged with a multinational.

Woodside wasted no time in embracing Donald Trump’s energy policy, dumping renewables projects and gearing up to pump gas.

Australia's Hockeyroos will return to action for the first time since the Olympics to face the Chinese side responsible for their controversial Games exit.

‘Changing the date’ has little to do with why we march on 26 January. In taking to the streets, we honour those who kept the fires of resistance burning before us

Nearly a decade after calling time on his remarkable career, former captain Michael Clarke has been inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

With each new cataclysmic blaze around the world comes ever-worsening fake news and misinformation, left to fester and spread by the right-wing ‘broligarchy’.

Many of the nation's coal power generators are more than four decades old and posing reliability risks, analysis suggests.

Donald Trump is starting (to talk about, at least) his promised rollout of tariffs and sanctions, and Alex de Minaur has bowed out of the Australian Open.

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Last year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued at least nine recall notices on products that didn’t comply with the mandatory standard for nightwear for children. All of these items posed a fire hazard, but didn’t have the required labelling.