Australias

Key PointsAustralia is the driest of all inhabited continents, periods of drought are common which bring hot weather and the risk of bushfires.There are many different climate zones across Australia, classified by variations in…

Key PointsAbout 43,000 new dwellings are being built in Australia per quarter. The federal government has said 1.2 million new residential builds will be compete by 2029.According to BuildSkills Australia, 90,000 more workers need to be…

At times one wrong move can have a cascading effect that can be felt for several decades. A standing example of this can be seen in Australia where wild rabbits of European origin by eating up the…

Judith Durham, Australia's folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died. She was 79. Durham died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on Friday night after suffering complications from a long-standing…

The sepia lithograph in the National Library was irresistible to the novelist in Robert Drewe. Painted in 1866, a tiny boy in red shorts leans against a milestone on a winding English country road. On the milestone is a winner’s sash.…

"China has lived without Australia for thousands of years and could no doubt do so again."This quote, by a high-ranking Chinese minister, seems to capture the current state of Australia-China relations.But the quote isn't recent. Far…

The NEM interconnects power markets in the Australian states of Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), South Australia and Tasmania. Drivers of the volatility being seen are outages at coal power plants, the impacts of natural…

Australia’s treatment of its original inhabitants has been and is abominable. The original English settlers who arrived around 1800 expelled them forcibly from the Eastern Crescent, which contains every major city except Perth, and the…

The descendants of Australian wool pioneer John Macarthur have been embroiled in a dispute over multimillion-dollar propertiesA bitter family feud between descendants of Australia's most prosperous colonial settler has exposed…