Sources: News Limited
The Papua New Guinean Cabinet approves a bilateral defense treaty with Australia, which will increase integration of military equipment and personnel between the two countries. 2025-10-2
Australian flag carrier Qantas announces the closure of its Singapore-based, partly owned low-cost airline Jetstar Asia due to rising costs and regional competition. 2025-06-11
A worker at Auckland Airport tests positive a day after the country restarted reciprocal travel to Australia. 2021-04-20
Australia suspends its quarantine-free travel bubble arrangement with New Zealand after the discovery of three new community cases in Auckland. 2021-02-15
Australia closes its borders to all non-Australian residents. 2020-03-19
Thousands of people are reported stranded on a local beach awaiting evacuation near Mallacoota, Victoria, Australia, as bushfires enter the coastal town. Four people are reported missing. Elsewhere, a volunteer Fire and Rescue NSW firefighter died battling a bushfire near the town of Jingellic. 2019-12-30
Myanmar tops the 2015 Charities Aid Foundation's World Giving Index which measures each country's charitable behavior. Individuals indicate whether they have donated money, volunteered, or helped a stranger in the past month. The United States, which tied with Myanmar last year, is second, followed by New Zealand, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Ireland, and Malaysia. 2015-11-10
People in North America, Australia, western South America and parts of East Asia will be able to see a lunar eclipse today. 2014-10-8
The Australian town of Yenda, New South Wales, is flooded as floodwaters move through the Murray–Darling Basin. 2012-03-7
Australian climate change activists close down the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, New South Wales. 2010-09-26