Australasia and the small Pacific states.
South China Morning Post reported on 24 July 2026 that Australia has earmarked A$3.2 billion (US$3.2 billion) for the Osborne Naval Shipyard. Without the underlying article text, that figure is harder to read than it looks.
Australia is moving to require the largest AI data centres to add at least as much electricity to the grid as they consume. The rule, still taking…
Australia name Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon for the Bangladesh Test, reinforcing a three-format pace-stock that has carried the side…
Canberra moved first with a hard age-verified block on under-16s. Paris and several UK provinces are now drafting in the same shape, and the…
After a decade of policy drift, exploration interest in New Zealand's onshore basins is stirring again. The majors are not yet back, but smaller…
After a decade in which only a handful of wells were drilled, exploration interest in New Zealand's offshore basins is quietly rebuilding, with…
Australia is now spending more than A$9m a year for each asylum seeker held on Nauru. A new survey shows many of them skipping meals to make ends…
A 19-second video of a Melbourne man confronting piles of illegally dumped rubbish has crossed into the meme economy. The case tells a smaller story…
Ryan Fox's closing birdie at Royal Troon on 19 July 2026 hands New Zealand its first Open Championship since 1963 and confirms a late-career surge…
Former attorney general Mark Dreyfus urges a royal commission to weigh banning protests outside synagogues and Jewish schools, citing personal abuse…
A 34-year-old Brisbane mother with four children already at home has delivered identical quadruplets, a configuration so rare that obstetric…
An ABC 7.30 grilling over Pauline Hanson's podcast hosting Britain's Tommy Robinson has put Barnaby Joyce on the defensive, and, briefly, on the…
Canberra moves from voluntary principles to mandatory AI rules and a new regulator, betting that early standards-buying buys it leverage in a market…
Applications for the eight-spot Startup Battlefield close at midnight Sunday AEST, putting Sydney's startup ecosystem on a global stage for the first…
A police pursuit started on the Gold Coast ended with a man's death in the NSW northern rivers on 19 July 2026, renewing scrutiny of how neighbouring…
A widely-circulated claim that Kazakhstan has banned Russian wheat imports misreads the measure. What Astana has actually done is narrower, and more…
A new India-Australia agreement lands as Indian nuclear planners concede that domestic ore cannot keep pace with a fast-rising reactor pipeline.
A major Australian shale gas project is set to come online in September, with Japan as the anchor customer, in a deal that reframes the regional LNG…
The prime minister says One Nation’s leader should not ‘talk Australia down’ on foreign soil, hours after formally opening a multinational air combat…
An estimated A$700m paper profit Hancock Prospecting's Gina Rinehart booked on Elon Musk's SpaceX debut has been wiped out after the share price slid…
A Polymarket dispatch confirms New Zealand and Switzerland will begin talks on a trade deal in September, putting Wellington and Bern in the same…
At CPAC London on 18 July 2026, Pauline Hanson told the crowd she was 'sick of hearing about white privilege' and 'fears for England', while Nigel…
The Indian board moved within hours of social-media speculation that the third ODI at Lord's would be the captain's farewell, calling the talk…
A major Australian shale gas project is set to begin production in September, with its operator pointing squarely at Japan as the anchor customer.…
A major Australian shale gas project is set to begin production in September, with operators already pitching cargoes to Japanese buyers as Asia's…