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Unidentified ball-shaped debris found washed ashore at Manly Beach and eight other beaches in Sydney, Australia. Photo: Northern Beaches Council/Northern Beaches Council/dpa

Mysterious balls wash ashore in Australia, spoiling bathers’ fun, closing beaches

Authorities are investigating the debris and working to clear nine Sydney beaches.

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Australian state premier calls synagogue attack an escalation in antisemitism

12 Jan 2025 - 2:32PM

Court nullifies marriage after Australian bride thought it was Instagram ‘prank’

11 Jan 2025 - 12:27PM

Feeling the heat: bungling Australia arsonist sets trousers on fire

CCTV video shows a person in Melbourne engulfed in flames, who removes their burning clothes before running off.

11 Jan 2025 - 3:07AM

Australian police have released CCTV video of a bungling arsonist who set their own trousers alight and had to hot-foot it from the scene without them. Photo: Victoria Police

Australian hiker survives 2 weeks in the wild on berries and creek water

Hadi Nazari, a 23-year-old university student from Melbourne, went missing from his group of friends on December 26.

8 Jan 2025 - 7:19PM

Explainer | Why isn’t there a tunnel connecting New Zealand’s main islands?

A Cook Strait tunnel would dramatically reduce travel times. But unlike in Britain and Japan, New Zealand has not seriously considered it.

8 Jan 2025 - 3:26PM

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Scientists in Australia breed mosquitoes with ‘toxic’ semen to curb diseases

The ‘toxic male technique’ aims to breed male mosquitoes that kill disease-spreading females through the act of mating.

8 Jan 2025 - 10:42AMvideocam

Researchers say the mosquitoes would need to be genetically modified so they only expressed the toxic semen once they were released into the wild. Photo: Shutterstock

‘Everyone owns the beach,’ says Australian PM as cabana debate heats up

Portable cabanas used to reserve spots on Australian beaches are ‘un-Australian’, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

7 Jan 2025 - 11:45AM

2 Virgin Australia crew members allegedly raped, robbed in Fiji

Fiji police were investigating the incidents that happened outside a nightclub in Nadi.

2 Jan 2025 - 12:52PM

Man charged after New Zealand police officer killed in car-ramming attack

Two other officers were also injured in the incident in Nelson that a minister called ‘a very cowardly attack’.

1 Jan 2025 - 12:15PM

Police forensic officers at the scene of the car-ramming attack in Nelson, New Zealand, on Wednesday. Photo: Stuff via AP

Is Australia taking myopic approach in wooing Pacific nations to counter China?

Australia has signed deals with the Solomon Islands, Nauru and Papua New Guinea in moves seen as securing its clout as the Pacific leader.

30 Dec 2024 - 6:23PM

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele of the Solomon Islands in Beijing on July 12. Photo: Xinhua

China launches investigation into beef imports as local price of the meat falls

Imports have surged, with China representing a hugely important market for countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Australia.

28 Dec 2024 - 3:59AM

‘Devastating’: 2 dead after being struck by sail booms during Sydney-Hobart race

Race organisers say both crew members were hit by the horizontal pole that holds down the sails and swings depending on the wind’s direction.

27 Dec 2024 - 3:10PM

Australia’s South Asians hail anti-racism framework for including caste

The framework will help fight caste discrimination by enhancing legal protections in areas such as housing, education and culture.

23 Dec 2024 - 8:21PM

Melbourne-based documentary filmmaker Vikrant Kishore. Photo: Vikrant Kishore

Australia approves extradition of ex-US Marine accused of training Chinese aviators

Daniel Duggan faces charges of breaking US arms law, but his lawyers say there’s no evidence he trained Chinese military.

23 Dec 2024 - 2:27PM

A undated photo of Daniel Duggan. File photo: Saffrine Duggan via AP

Australia strikes US$118 million policing deal with China-friendly Solomons

Australian PM Albanese called the pact a ‘new foundation’ for Canberra’s security ties with Honiara as Beijing’s clout in the Pacific grows.

20 Dec 2024 - 1:40PMvideocam

US-China relations

Aukus, other China-related priorities likely to survive Trump: top US envoy

‘We will see more areas of continuity in the Indo-Pacific’ than perhaps any other region, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell says.

20 Dec 2024 - 6:45AMvideocam

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Pacific nations

Death toll from Vanuatu earthquake rises to 14, including 2 Chinese

An embassy official said the two Chinese victims were from Fujian province. More than 200 people were injured in the quake.

18 Dec 2024 - 3:01PM

Rescuers inspect a collapsed building in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila after a powerful earthquake hit the Pacific nation. Photo: Michael Thompson via AFP

Australia’s mega-hit kids show Bluey is becoming a film

The Walt Disney Company says a feature-length outing of the popular animated series will hit cinemas in 2027.

18 Dec 2024 - 11:26AM

Aggressive Japanese shrimp that packs a punch shocks New Zealand

The discovery of Japanese mantis shrimp – nicknamed ‘thumb splitters’ – in the Bay of Plenty ‘is not something to celebrate’, officials say.

18 Dec 2024 - 10:47AM

Pacific nations

Buildings ‘pancaked’ in Vanuatu as 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocks Pacific nation

Footage posted on social media showed buckled windows and collapsed concrete pillars on a building hosting foreign missions in the capital.

17 Dec 2024 - 9:25PM

A severely damaged building housing the embassies of the US, Britain and New Zealand is seen after a powerful earthquake struck Port Vila, the capital city of Vanuatu, on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

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