Australia

Melbourne history buffs might know of Cole’s Book Arcade, the magnificent three-storey bookshop that could be found in what is now the Bourke Street Mall from 1883 to 1929. A...

Tennis players arriving for tournaments in Australia may be able to compete during their mandatory two-week coronavirus quarantine, the country’s tennis chief has said. Australia’s strict virus border controls require...

Australia’s coronavirus hot spot Victoria state on Monday recorded its lowest number of new infections in more than three months as the nation’s second-largest city, Melbourne, further eased lockdown restrictions....

A decision by Australia’s cyber spy agency, the Australian Signals Directorate, to change the author of its partially written official history raises questions about the organisation’s purported desire for greater...

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An overnight curfew in Australia’s second-largest city will be lifted this week, officials said Sunday, even as the global coronavirus toll inched towards one million dead. Despite the number of...

More than a century since they were declared extinct in the Australian state of New South Wales, the bilby, a vulnerable marsupial with rabbit-like ears, has been reintroduced into a...

From last Friday, the more than one and a half million people on jobseeker had the coronavirus supplement cut from $550 a fortnight to $250. We know this will most...

SYDNEY, Australia — Wildlife officials in the Australian state of Tasmania began disposing of hundreds of dead pilot whales on Saturday after ending rescue attempts in one of the largest...

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s issue is written by Besha Rodell, a columnist with the Australia bureau. There are blossoms on the...