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Prominent Australians Urge India’s Adani To Abandon Giant Mine

A group of prominent Australians Thursday urged India's Adani Enterprises to abandon a giant coal mine project near the...

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Kidnapped Australian Woman Released In Afghanistan

An Australian woman kidnapped in Afghanistan last year has been released, officials said Thursday. The Australian...

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Aussie Beer Boycott Over Christian Gay Marriage Video

Leading Australian brewery Coopers apologised Wednesday after pubs vowed a boycott over its links to a Christian...

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Gold Coast Prepared To Host Commonwealth Games Twice

Australia's Gold Coast is prepared to host back-to-back Commonwealth Games, the city's mayor said Wednesday, after...

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Bra Parachute Wins Australia Flying Contest

An actor tethered to a homemade parachute made out of bras on Sunday flew his way to the top of a quirky Australian...

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French, Irish Sailors Rescued From ‘enormous’ Australia Seas

An Irishman and a French woman on Thursday told of "waves the size of buildings" after being rescued from a terrifying...

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Female Traffic Lights To Promote Gender Equality In Australia

Pedestrian traffic lights showing female figures rather than male have been installed in Melbourne to reduce...

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Great Barrier Reef At Risk of WORST-EVER Coral Bleaching This Year

The Great Barrier Reef could be struck by its worst-ever blast of coral bleaching as early as this year, experts have...

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Plan To Save Great Barrier Reef Set Back Decades

Australia's plan to rescue the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef has been set back at least two decades after the fragile...

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Pilot Had ‘near Collision’ In 2015

An Australian pilot who died in a Melbourne plane crash had been investigated before over a "near collision" in 2015,...

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Five Dead As Plane Crashes Into Melbourne Shopping Centre

A light aircraft exploded Tuesday in a "massive fireball" with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as...

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Lealiifano In Cancer Remission, Plans Playing Return

Wallaby back Christian Lealiifano says he is determined to return to rugby after revealing his successful bone marrow...

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Friends Save Spearfisherman From Shark Mauling Off Australia

A shark badly mauled a man spearfishing Saturday in northern Queensland leaving him in serious condition after friends...

International

Australia Post Boss Paid 10 Times More Than PM

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the country's state postal operator to reconsider the pay...

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President Trump and Australia PM Have ‘worst Call’

A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee...

International

President Trump and Australia PM Have ‘worst Call’

A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee...

International

Australian PM Reveals He Gave A$1.75m To Own Campaign

Australia's prime minister has revealed he donated A$1.75m (£1m; $1.3m) towards his re-election campaign in 2016....

International

Australia and New Zealand To Pursue ‘TPP 12 Minus One’

Australia and New Zealand say they are hopeful of pressing ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, despite...

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Police Say Lorry Crash ‘probably Terror Attack’

German police are investigating a “probable terrorist attack” after a man ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market...