Oceania

Australia

Dutch Olympian and child rapist van de Velde denied Australian visa

Netherlands' volleyball player Van de Velde was sentenced to four years in prison in the UK in 2016 after he was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl.

28/10/2025

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Severe winds batter New Zealand for second time in a week

Powerful winds swept across parts of New Zealand for the second time in a week on Thursday, disrupting flights, forcing school closures, and causing widespread transport delays.

23/10/2025

Nature

People use garden tools to protect millions of migrating red crabs

Up to 100 million crabs are expected to make their way from their forest burrows to the shoreline where they breed.

23/10/2025

Tech News

Denmark eyeing Australia’s under-16 social media ban as possible model

A Danish ambassador said the Nordic country 'will be looking at what Australia does' on its world-leading ban.

17/10/2025

Travel News

Qantas customers hit by hackers as millions affected by data leak

Travellers are being told to brace for an increase in airline scams after cyber criminals targeted millions of Qantas customers.

14/10/2025

Tech News

Australia’s social media ban under-16s hard to enforce, Google says

There’s two months to go before children under 16 will lose access to most social media accounts in Australia.

13/10/2025

Healthcare

New AI tool uses mammograms to predict women’s heart health risks

The researchers said the new tool could make it easier to detect heart health problems in areas with uneven access to medical care.

17/09/2025

Nature

Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

Researchers say the single-dose vaccine could reduce koala chlamydia deaths by up to 65 per cent.

12/09/2025

New Zealand

New Zealand fugitive killed by police, children found safe

Tom Phillips had been evading authorities for nearly four years with his three children. He was killed in a shoot-out with police officers, and his children found alive.

08/09/2025

Australia

Australian woman jailed for life after serving toxic mushroom lunch

Erin Patterson handed prison sentence after killing three relatives with beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.

08/09/2025

Health news

Men’s secondhand smoke exposure in childhood may affect their own kids

The Australian research team urged fathers to break the cycle by avoiding smoking around their children.

03/09/2025

Australia

Australian fugitive being helped by others, say police

Dezi Freeman, 56, allegedly killed two police officers at his rural property in Porepunkah last Tuesday, before escaping into the bush.

01/09/2025

Australia

The three Scottish brothers who set a world record for fastest row

Jamie, Ewan, and Lachlan Maclean on Saturday completed the journey, arriving in Cairns, Australia, after rowing over 14,000 kilometres nonstop from Peru, becoming the first team to achieve the full crossing from South America to Australia.

31/08/2025

Australia

Manhunt for gunman who killed two Australian police officers continues

Authorities said the suspect, identified as 56-year-old Dezi Freeman, is heavily armed and experienced in wilderness survival as a massive search entered its second day.

27/08/2025

Australia

Australia expels Iran ambassador over antisemitic attack accusations

The Australian government has cut diplomatic ties with Tehran and expelled its ambassador amid accusations the country organised two antisemitic attacks.

26/08/2025

Australia

Doctor accused of videoing in Australian hospital toilets out on bail

Cho was initially charged with six offences but another 127 charges were added on Thursday, including intentionally recording intimate images without permission.

22/08/2025

New Zealand

New Zealand to buy US helicopters in €1.3bn military spending package

New Zealand’s military spending has trailed that of its larger partners in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing group of countries, which includes the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia.

21/08/2025

New Zealand

New Zealand soldier admits spying in country's first such conviction

The soldier came to law enforcement attention as part of an operation after a 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, when a white supremacist opened fire on Muslim worshipers, killing 51.

19/08/2025

Business

Google to pay €30M fine for anti-competition deals in Australia

The tech giant signed deals with two major telcos to exclusively pre-install their search engine on phones—behaviour which is illegal in Australia.

18/08/2025

Australia

Australian lawyer apologises for AI-generated errors in murder case

The fake submissions included fabricated quotes from a speech to the state legislature and nonexistent case citations purportedly from the Supreme Court.

15/08/2025

Australia

Australia will recognise Palestine in September, PM Albanese says

Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting on Monday, Albanese said that Australia’s decision to recognise the Palestinian state will be formalised at the United Nations General Assembly in September.

11/08/2025

Climate

Australia’s reefs suffer worst coral decline on record

Some of the reefs surveyed lost as much as 70 per cent of their corals.

06/08/2025

Travel News

New Zealand to charge tourists to visit top natural attractions

The measure aims to generate revenue for conservation while boosting employment opportunities.

05/08/2025

Green News

WATCH: Weekend of wild weather brings rare snow to Australian towns

As much as 40 centimetres of snow fell in parts of New South Wales over the weekend, the most since the mid-1980s, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

04/08/2025

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WATCH: Pro-Palestinian protesters march across Sydney Harbour Bridge

Thousands of demonstrators took part in a pro-Palestinian march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday.

04/08/2025

New Zealand

FBI opens first office in New Zealand, sparking backlash in China

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said in June that China posed an imminent threat and urged Indo-Pacific countries to increase military spending to 5% of GDP.

01/08/2025