The Latest Breaking News from Christmas Island

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.

The population of the pelagic Indian Ocean red-tailed tropicbird, or silver bosun, has fallen sharply as individuals deal with predation by feral cats and a changing climate.

Following the death of Squadron Leader Terry Gledhill in 2015, his daughter Jane O’Connor found his account of Operation Grapple, a series of nine bombs that led to a thermonuclear weapon

Red crab migration season has kicked off on Christmas Island — and experts say it could be one of the biggest in years, with up to 65 million crustaceans making the journey.

A disabled Bangladeshi refugee and an Iraqi refugee caring for her disabled daughter have criticised gaps in services to diverse communities with special needs.

A BLINDING flash, intense heat, the spectre of a mushroom cloud creeping skywards – mercifully few of us have seen the full horror of a nuclear…

Australia has lost more mammal species than any other continent and has one of the worst rates of species decline among the world's richest countries, a five-yearly environmental report card released by the government on Tuesday said. Some animals such as the blue-tailed skink are now only known to exist…

Gump was the last lizard of her kind when she died in 2014, and her demise should be ‘a scar on our conscience’