Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia’s deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer. Mr Joyce said he would step down on...
Australia's cricketers have been warned this year's Ashes series could be scrapped, even if a new pay deal is reached with the game's governing body, reports said on Saturday. Australian Cricketers...
Disgraced All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams was accused of costing the All Blacks the second Test against the British and Irish Lions as New Zealanders weighed up the impact of his red card. In...
A Chinese state-run newspaper accused Australia of spying on China and stealing its technology on Thursday, weeks after Beijing rejected allegations of interference in Australian politics. An...
Cricket Australia has sent a formal letter to warring players officially informing them they will be unemployed if a deal is not reached this week in their protracted pay dispute. Amid reports that...
A bodyboarder swimming close to shore survived a close encounter with a large shark Sunday after being bumped by the marine predator off Western Australia. The man, named by local media as Paul Goff,...
Australia must be alert to foreign government interference in its democratic systems, former top US intelligence official James Clapper warned Wednesday, after China was accused of meddling in the...
Australia has ordered an inquiry into espionage laws and foreign government interference amid growing concerns about Chinese influence in the country's politics, it emerged Tuesday. The move follows...
Vice-captain David Warner has attacked Cricket Australia's handling of a pay dispute and once again raised the spectre of an Ashes series boycott by players later this year. The feisty opener has not...
Former New Zealand prime minister John Key and rugby great Michael Jones were honoured with knighthoods on Monday. Key, who led New Zealand for eight years before stepping down last December, has...
Convicted paedophiles will have their passports cancelled to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again under tough new laws which Australia Tuesday hailed as a "world first". Legislation will...
Australia's role as a testing ground for global media giants such as the New York Times, Daily Mail and the Guardian could hasten the decline of embattled local players as they fight for eyeballs and...
American investment firm Hellman & Friedman has kicked off a bidding war for Australia's Fairfax Media by making a multi-billion-dollar offer to rival private equity company TPG Capital's proposal,...
A consortium led by private equity giant TPG Capital upped its offer for troubled Fairfax Media Monday and now wants to buy out the entire firm. Last week TPG and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan...
Former New Zealand coach Graham Henry has weighed in on the ongoing debate over the crippling tackle on Brian O'Driscoll in the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour, saying it "helped galvanise" the All...
Staff at Australia's Fairfax Media walked off the job for a week on Wednesday in protest at more hefty job cuts as the leading publisher struggles to cope with slumping revenues. The strike action by...
A merger of New Zealand's two largest media companies was rejected Wednesday as the country's competition watchdog warned it would create a dominant news giant and threaten democracy. NZME and...
Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar has bought a Sydney waterfront mansion for an Australian record Aus$75 million (US$56 million), a report said Monday, after the owners resisted selling the 1863-built...
The All Blacks were Sunday sweating on the availability of captain Kieran Read for the looming British and Irish Lions series after the backrower suffered a broken thumb. Read left the field just...
Powerful Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates is facing a crisis as he seeks re-election, with the organisation rocked by claims of bullying in a bitter push to oust him after 27 years....
