The Latest Breaking News from Australia

With concussion-related injuries among professional athletes often taking an unwanted spotlight, researchers in Australia are asking for help to study the impacts of potential long-term brain injuries to the younger generation — one contact sport at a time

Steve Irwin's father says authorities should "throw the book" at an influencer over his treatment of crocodiles in Australia, describing it as disgusting.

Anthropic, an AI startup founded in 2021, has reached a groundbreaking US$1.5 billion settlement (AU$2.28 billion) in a class-action copyright lawsuit. The case was initiated in 2024 by novelist Andrea Bartz and non-fiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson.

INTERVIEW: The Australian actor has developed a cult fanbase from her appearances in gory movies including ‘Ready or Not’, ‘Scream VI’ and ‘The Babysitter’. As she plays a stalked pop star in ‘Borderline’, she tells Adam White about soap opera fame, being directed by her husband, and the wonder of…

One of the gorier fates meted out in Patrick Marlborough’s revenge comedy is allotted to an unnamed journalist, a minor character who appears in only a single sentence. The journalist arrives at his untimely end after penning a profile of George Bodkin. Also known as “The Nutter King”, Bodkin is…

The extra-large autonomous undersea vehicles (XL-AUV) have a ‘very long range’, can be deployed from warships or launched off the coast

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles says large underwater attack drones have ‘very long range’ of operations.

Australia plans to spend $1.1 billion on building dozens of locally developed underwater attack drones

Dozens of submarine drones called Ghost Sharks will join the navy's arsenal as it works to project long-range firepower further from Australia's shores.

Bob Irwin and animal rights organisations say Mike Holston – AKA ‘The Real Tarzann’ – should be deported from Australia

Australia's exchange-traded fund industry has grown by more than a third over the past 12 months and is nearing a milestone figure.