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Premier Chris Minns
Oysters sit on a silver tray ready for sale. The molluscs are a staple of brunch menus and seafood buffets across Australia. Photo: Shutterstock
Australia

Shellfish thieves in Australia make off with 400,000 oysters worth US$250,000

The oyster farm, which lost a third of its stock, says it will not be able to replenish in time for Christmas.

Australia

Albanese: Canberra to join Australia’s gun buy-back programme after Bondi attack

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong survivors push to close ‘consent loophole’ in reforms to sex crime laws

Australia

YouTube says Sydney massacre ‘crisis actor’ video can stay online

The video calls an Isis-inspired attack that left 15 dead a ‘false flag operation’, an Australian inquiry heard.

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Police patrol in the early morning of December 15 at Sydney’s Bondi Beach following the previous day’s shooting. Photo: AP
China exports

What fuels global trade imbalances: China’s overcapacity or US failure to adapt?

Economists highlight the potential for China’s green manufacturing capacity to support the global energy transition, despite overcapacity fears.

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Australia

Australia makes record cocaine bust after 2.7 tonnes found buried in Sydney

The largest cocaine haul in Australian history was found stored in plastic tubs and hidden in underground bunkers in a Greater Sydney suburb.

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Australia

Beachgoers in Australia rescue woman after shark attack at Sydney’s Coogee Beach

Australia averages around 20 shark attacks a year, two or three of which are fatal.

Emergency personnel attend the scene of a shark attack at Coogee Beach in Sydneyon Saturday. Photo: Reuters
China manufacturing

Boring China: how Chinese firms are creating a new breed of tunnelling machine

Huge machine is the largest of its kind exported by China and will cut through a complex environment to create a 6.5km six-lane tunnel.

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Australia

2 rescue volunteers die as boat capsizes off Australia’s New South Wales

The crew were helping a yacht in distress when their boat rolled over in ‘treacherous’ conditions. A third body was found on shore.

Australia

Australian man who sent lizards in popcorn bags jailed record 8 years

Investigators recovered 101 Australian reptiles from seized parcels destined for Hong Kong, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Romania.

One of the reptiles rescued from being mailed in a package. Photo: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Australia

Sydney stabbing: man killed in ‘random’ attack on busy shopping street

Emergency services rushed to the Merrylands shopping strip after reports that a man had stabbed multiple people before fleeing on foot.

Emergency services respond to an incident in the Merrylands neighbourhood of Sydney in 2016. Police were called to the suburb in Sydney’s west on Tuesday after reports of a “random” stabbing. Photo: AFP
Australia

Israeli president’s visit to Australia met with protests

While Isaac Herzog comforts a community reeling from the Bondi massacre, his arrival has sparked protests and a massive security operation.

Australia

Video | Snake-panic thwarted at Australian railway station

One passenger courageously threw the snake off the platform.

Australia

Record heat in Australia, as temperatures near 50 degrees Celsius

Authorities urge caution as temperatures soar, fuelling out of control fires.

A man shades himself from the heat with a fan in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. Victorians are sweating through what could be the state’s most severe heatwave in nearly two decades. Photo: EPA
Australia

Australian shark attack victim, 12, dies in hospital

Nico Antic was pulled from the water by friends and taken to hospital with severe injuries to both legs.

Authorities close a popular rock jumping point near Shark Beach in Vaucluse, Sydney, after a 12-year-old biy is attacked by a shark on Sunday. Photo: EPA
Australia

Manhunt under way after deadly shooting in Australia leaves 3 dead

Shooting comes on a National Day of Mourning as Australia remembers 15 people shot dead in Sydney at a Hanukkah celebration on December 14.

Australia

Australia approves gun buy-back, hate crime reforms after Bondi attack

New legislation limits firearm access, sets up a gun buy-back programme, and tackles hate speech.

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Australia

Boy, 12, ‘fighting for life’ after Sydney Harbour shark attack

‘It was a horrendous scene … We believe it was something like a bull shark that attacked’ the boy, said a New South Wales police spokesman.

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Shark Beach in Sydney, Australia. On Sunday, a 12-year-old boy was attacked by a bull shark while swimming off the beach. Photo: Reuters
Australia

Australia faces record guns as Bondi massacre prompts reform

There were more than 4 million guns in Australia in 2025, more than at the time of a 1996 shooting that killed 35 and prompted a gun buy-back scheme.

Australia

‘Not cowed’: Australia sees defiant start to 2026 after mass shooting

Many police officers openly carried rapid-fire rifles, a first for the popular annual fireworks display over Sydney’s Harbour Bridge.

Australia

Increased police presence in Sydney for New Year’s Eve following Bondi attack

New South Wales’ premier Chris Minns urged people to ‘show defiance to these evil terrorists’ by celebrating the event at Sydney Harbour.

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Preparations at Sydney Opera House on Tuesday ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations. Photo: AAP / dpa
World of performing arts

6 young artists are reshaping Australia’s iconic cultural institutions

Six diverse artists, including Dylan Goh and Vivian Pham, have been appointed to director positions at Australia’s top cultural institutions.

Six new members, aged 18 to 28, have been appointed to director positions at prestigious cultural institutions in Australia. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Australia

‘Almost daily surgery’: policeman hurt in Bondi attack wakes from coma

Scott Dyson, 25, woke on the day New South Wales, where the December 14 attack took place, was set to approve new laws cracking down on guns.

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Australia

Australian PM Albanese booed as Bondi Beach attack victims honoured

Tens of thousands attended Sunday’s memorial. The Sydney event was heavily guarded by police, including snipers on rooftops and police boats.

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The Philippines

Bondi shooter visited Philippine gun shop before attack: police

Police retrace Sydney shooters’ steps in Davao City as CCTV shows Sajid Akram at a gun shop, but officials deny ample time for extremist training.

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People add to a floral tribute outside Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Thursday. Photo: AP
Australia

Australia’s Albanese faces battle over gun laws after Bondi Beach shooting

The prime minister’s call for tighter gun controls is meeting resistance from right-wing populists and mainstream conservatives.

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A wooden Star of David stands in a makeshift memorial to pay tribute to the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting on Bondi Beach. Photo: Reuters
The Philippines

Is Philippines being unfairly named in Australia’s Bondi Beach shooting?

Australian police are looking into a trip the two suspects made to Davao City, but Philippine officials say it is not connected to the shooting.

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Australia

Millions raised for ‘hero of Australia’ who stopped gunman at Bondi Beach

Over 40,000 people have donated about US$1.5 million to Ahmed al Ahmed, the Syrian-Australian Muslim hero who saved Jewish lives.

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