All news on the topic: Australia

Ahead of the glittering Eurovision final in Liverpool, we look at the countries who aren't singing their hearts out to win this year - as well as the reason behind Australia and Israel taking part

Overcoming their anxiety, thousands of post-war Brits took the chance to move to Australia for a tenner, and a new BBC drama starring Michele Keegan tells the story of those who migrated Down Under

Rikki Leigh Mitchell vanished in the Australian bush wearing just a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops and had no phone, but managed to survive by drinking puddle water

A toddler in Australia's Northern Territory has become the third person this year in the country to die from the mosquito-borne virus Murray Valley encephalitis with health authorities issuing a warning

Single dad Martin Bongiorno, who lives in a rental property in Bateman's Bay in New South Wales, says he became strict with his personal finances after becoming dependent on compensation payments following a workplace accident.

Aspiring hip hop star Spencer Shumski, 20, from Sale in Australia's Victoria state, is accused of knifing Clint Allen to death in front of his wife and three pals in the early hours of Sunday morning, with the outdoorsy family man dying at the scene

Margaret Dale Hawke pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the family's Port Hedland home and has been given a minimum non-parole period of 25 years by the Supreme Court in Perth, Australia

A family in Sydney was left horrified after finding a naked baby - still covered in amniotic fluid and with its umbilical cord unsnipped - on a patio chair

Director of the South Eastern Sydney Public Health Unit Dr Vicky Sheppeard told gay, bisexual and other men to be cautious if they present with symptoms and to get vaccinated if they haven’t already

Kevin Darmody, 65, was fishing for barramundi on the Kennedy River in the far north of Queensland, Australia, when he suddenly vanished from the riverbank on Saturday

Jess and Jackie Morecroft bought a dream home at auction and after living in it for five years, a court ruled it still belonged to their previous owner on Australia's Gold Coast

Archie Blake had his leg torn into by a shark while snorkelling with his family on a "trip of a lifetime" in Australia that they had been waiting to take for four years

Three passengers - two men and a woman - were escorted from a Jetstar plane at Brisbane airport after causing chaos on board. The airline said their disruptive behaviour was 'completely unacceptable'

A boy who was swimming off Kurrajong Campground in Western Australia was attacked by a shark and then transported to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries

Margaret Dale Hawke killed her children aged 10, seven and four months, then set their house on fire and walked out. She appeared distraught in court and sobbed as details of the murders were revealed

Warwick Tollemache, 35, from Brisbane in Australia, was on the Quantum of the Seas cruise ship when he fell overboard around 870 miles south of Hawaii

Osman Shaptafaj killed his estranged daughter Lindita Musai and her husband Veton Musai on New Year's Eve in 2019. His lawyer argued his sentence was too harsh but an appeal to reduce it was refused

A passenger on board the Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas said: "A lady heard a scream, went out onto the balcony and saw him drop past, hit the tender below and fall into the water"

The driver and pedestrian were both assessed but they were pronounced dead at the scene, New South Wales Police said in a statement after the crash in Sydney, Australia

Experts say Simon Nellist's death was a "provoked incident" because sharks had been drawn to the area where he was swimming off the coast of Little Bay near Sydney

A disturbed shopper spotted the muscular man diving into the chicken straight out of the supermarket packaging at the shopping centre in Australia

Australian influencer Bianka Ismailovski sparked outrage after she posted a video of herself twerking to commemorate Anzac Day

Dean Holland was a veteran of Australia's horse racing circuit but was killed after being thrown from his ride during a race meeting in Donald, with the rest of the day's running cancelled

Trent Innes, the CEO of software company Compono, said his 'coffee cup test' can lead to a candidate being turned down as it proves whether they have the right attitude to work for his company

Sky gazers along the Exmouth Peninsular of Western Australia were amazed by the solar eclipse when the sun was completely covered by the moon, casting a 25-mile shadow