From soon after its acquisition by Britain during the Napoleonic wars, the southern tip of Africa had been shared between British colonies and independent republics of Dutch–Afrikaner settlers, known ...

On 3 September 1939 Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Second World War on every national and commercial radio station in Australia. Almost ...

Will 2025 prove to be the year of the dragon? Or is "beetle-mania" set to make a return? A spectacularly patterned dragonfly and two very different beetles will vie with a slender-but-deadly mantis, a ...

Australian Capital Equity Pty Ltd is Perth business magnate Kerry Stokes' main private company. Through ACE and other private companies including Wroxby Pty Ltd, Mr Stokes controls an expansive ...

As Universities Australia prepares to take its biggest post-­pandemic delegation of university leaders to China this month, the on-campus concentration of international students at almost every ...

MELBOURNE, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has offered to buy equity in Australian critical minerals companies as part of a funding package to expand its supply and cut its reliance on China, ...

The first of the Australian Army's newest attack helicopters have taken to the sky in the country's north. Two new AH-64E Apache helicopters, acquired as part of a $4.5-billion dollar deal with United ...

New Zealand scrum-half Cam Roigard made a brilliant return from injury as the All Blacks beat Australia 33-24 in the Rugby Championship to retain the Bledisloe Cup at Eden Park. Caleb Clarke, Leroy ...

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) will see its first jet landing at the end of the month as part of an emergency response test. The NSW Rural Fire Service’s (RFS) 737 Large Air Tanker, N138CG ...

Australian artists say they could be wiped out by AI within a decade as Liberal and Greens senators lambasted the Productivity Commission for suggesting companies should be allowed free access to ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has been named chief executive at 185-year-old mutual Australian Unity, in her first major move since resigning ...

Australia lifted the Netball World Youth Cup after defeating defending champions New Zealand. In a tightly contested and physical match, Australia came from five goals down early to turn the tables ...