Qantas Airways will function a direct flight from New York to Sydney on Friday. At almost 20 hours lengthy, it's set to turn out to be the longest continuous flight on this planet. ...

An Australian farmer has launched a authorized motion in opposition to Bayer agricultural chemical substances unit Monsanto after being identified with a kind of leukemia. ...

Following Washington's lead, the Aussie opposition is pressuring Canberra to launch particulars of a name it had with Donald Trump. Are non-public talks between world leaders threatened with extinction? ...

US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison are anticipated to disclose a plan on Friday aimed toward securing the provision of uncommon earth minerals. ...

Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct group of Australian megafauna, had unusual our bodies and existence not like any dwelling species.

With the vacation season nonetheless three months away, the town council of Perth is gearing as much as make this Christmas a extra “culturally various expertise,” which is simply woke code for watered down, irrelevant and irreligious. ...

For the primary time in 13 years, a USA group stocked with gamers from the NBA has been defeated, as Australia pulled off a nail-biting 98-94 win in Melbourne, snapping the USA’s 78-game successful streak courting again to 2006. ...

Ridesharing large Uber plans to start out trials of its flying automobiles subsequent yr in Melbourne. The town is the third flagged by Uber for the brand new taxi service, whereas it's working to create “first ...

Actor Geoffrey Rush has been awarded the most important ever defamation payout to a single particular person in Australia. The Oscar-winner was final month awarded A$ 2.9m (£1.57m; US$ 1.99m) after successful the case towards Nationwide Information, which publishes Australia's Every day Telegraph. The Sydney newspaper had revealed ...

After 20 years of fast will increase in life expectancy at delivery, the speed of progress in Australia is now falling behind most different high-income nations, which means higher management of well being danger elements reminiscent of weight problems will probably be wanted if additional life expectancy will increase are ...