The Latest Breaking News from Australia

As I write this, five people are dead and at least 1,000 buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that have swept across Los Angeles. Around 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. We are not yet sure of the scale of the disaster, but maps show it is burning across many suburbs. That is shocking.…

Shares in Star Entertainment plunged by more than 19% to an all-time low of 10.5 cents

Medicare, Australia’s universal health insurance scheme, guarantees all Australians access to a wide range of health and hospital services at low or no cost.

The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain plants left some species susceptible to changes in climate.