Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has sounded a stark warning about the escalating costs of managing natural disasters in the country, which could reach multi-billion dollar levels, Bloomberg reported.

Australia's climate-driven disaster costs surge, signalling economic risk

Australia’s parliament convened on Tuesday (July 26) in Canberra for the first time since the Australian Labor Party took control, underlining people’s concerns about climate change amid worsening bushfires and floods.

Australian Labor Party to focus on ‘climate change’ setting a target of 43% cut in emissions by 2030

More than 1,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in Australia's biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne to protest against the government's climate policies and the strategies it offered at a UN climate summit in Glasgow.

Rallies held in Sydney, Melbourne against Australia's climate policy

The Australian government on Monday began its legal challenge to a Federal Court's landmark decision that it has a duty of care to protect children from future personal injury caused by climate change, according to media reports.

Australian govt takes up legal battle against Indian-origin teen’s climate change court case

After the bushfires catastrophe, Australia is now dealing with freak weather conditions, from hailstones to dust storms, the Islands worst fire-hit areas are now suffering from flash floods. More than 80 blazes are still burning across New South Wales and Victoria despite downpours. Watch report.

Thunderstorm unleashes hail in Australia, No refuge after bushfires