Four people were killed and three were seriously injured after two helicopters collided in mid-air. The incident happened near a popular tourist site in Australia's Gold Coast region on Monday.

Four killed, three injured after two helicopters collide mid-air in Australia

Amid the rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific region, The united States is likely to deploy more ships and submarines in Australia. Both the countries have teamed up to counter China.

U.S. likely to deploy more submarines in Australia

Amid the rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific region, The united States is likely to deploy more ships and submarines to Australia. Both the countries have teamed up to counter China.

Agreeing to disagree: Another blow to U.S.- China ties?

An Australian court fined U.S. ride-sharing app Uber as it broke consumer law by misleading customers with warnings they would be charged for cancelling some rides from 2017 to 2021.

World Business Watch | Australia fines Uber $14 million for misleading on fares

The health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms up the waters in which it lies.

The World Heritage-listed site off Australia's northeastern coast is all but doomed, with between 70 and 99 per cent of corals set for destruction unless immediate “transformative action” is taken to reverse global warming, according to a new report.

The Australian Academy of Science says the more ambitious target of the Paris Climate Agreement of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees has now slipped out of reach and is “virtually impossible”.

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If 1.5 degrees of warming was sustained, the Great Barrier Reef would cease to exist as we know it, says one of the authors, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a biologist and climate scientist specialising in coral reefs.

Great Barrier Reef is made up of corals that support rich and bio-diverse marine life. The reef is 2300 km long.

Great Barrier Reef was an estimated USD 4 billion in revenue from tourism before the coronavirus pandemic.

The reef is at risk of losing its coveted world heritage status because of ocean warming -- fuelled by climate change -- damaging its health.

Changes in ocean temperatures stress healthy corals, causing them to expel algae living in their tissues -- draining them of their vibrant colours in a process known as bleaching.

(With inputs from agencies)

The health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms up the waters in which it lies. The World Heritage-listed site off Australia's northeastern coast is all but doomed, with between 70 and 99 per cent of corals set for destruction unless immediate “transformative action” is taken to reverse global warming, according to a new report.

The health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms up the waters in which it lies. The World Heritage-listed site off Australia's northeastern coast is all but doomed, with between 70 and 99 per cent of corals set for destruction unless immediate “transformative action” is taken to reverse global warming, according to a new report. The Australian Academy of Science says the more ambitious target of the Paris Climate Agreement of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees has now slipped out of reach and is “virtually impossible”. WATCH | 'We need to rethink our role on planet if corals cannot be saved' × If 1.5 degrees of warming was sustained, the Great Barrier Reef would cease to exist as we know it, says one of the authors, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a biologist and climate scientist specialising in coral reefs. Great Barrier Reef is made up of corals that support rich and bio-diverse marine life. The reef is 2300 km long. Great Barrier Reef was an estimated USD 4 billion in revenue from tourism before the coronavirus pandemic. The reef is at risk of losing its coveted world heritage status because of ocean warming -- fuelled by climate change -- damaging its health. Changes in ocean temperatures stress healthy corals, causing them to expel algae living in their tissues -- draining them of their vibrant colours in a process known as bleaching. (With inputs from agencies)

The Great Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds

Australia accuses China of 'act of intimidation' after laser aimed at aircraft. Let's unravel the reasons and purpose behind this act.

China attacked Australia with Laser! .. but why does that matter?

In Australia, the dream of owning a farm has become challenging for many. In recent years foreign ownership of agriculture has made ownership difficult, but locals are now being given a fresh opportunity to buy back the family property.

Australia: Tasmanian locals get fresh opportunity to buy back land

After a full week of controversy, the world's biggest tennis star Novak Djokovic is challenging the Australian government's decision to cancel his visa. The hearing of the case is currently underway and, here is a rundown of all the latest updates.

Australia: World number 1 tennis star locked in a dispute over vaccination status

Omicron cases continue to spread virtually as a wildfire. Australia has now said that it has surpassed the grim milestone of a million Covid 19 infections with more than half of them having been recorded in just the last week.

Australia has now surpassed the milestone of million Covid 19 infections, more than half of them recorded in last week

Australia has now surpassed the milestone of a million Covid 19 infections

After a week-long saga, the world's biggest tennis superstar Novak Djokovic has now won his appeal against being deported from Australia after the government revoked his visa as soon as he had landed in Australia last week. Now in the latest, an Australian judge has ruled in favor of Djokovic.

Australia: Novak Djokovic wins court case challenging deportation

These government-facilitated flights will be focused on returning Australian citizens, residents and families who have registered with our High Commission and consular offices within India

Australia resumes repatriation flights from India for stranded citizens

Australia's federal court found Alphabet Inc's Google misled consumers about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices, the country's competition regulator said on Friday.

The tech giant has been embroiled in legal action in the country in recent months as the government mulled and later passed a law to make Google and Facebook pay media companies for content on their platforms.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the court found Google wrongly claimed it could only collect information from the location history setting on user devices between January 2017 and December 2018.&nbsp;

A setting to control web and application activity, when turned on, also enabled Google to collect, store and use the data and was turned on by default on the devices, according to the ACCC.

Users were also not informed that turning off location history but leaving the "Web &amp; App Activity" setting on would allow Google to continue to collect data, the court found.

The regulator said it would seek penalties, but did not specify the amount.

A Google spokesman said that while the court had rejected many of ACCC's claims, the company disagreed with the remaining findings and was reviewing its options, including a possible appeal.

(With input from agencies)

Australia's federal court found Alphabet Inc's Google misled consumers about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices, the country's competition regulator said on Friday.

Australia's federal court found Alphabet Inc's Google misled consumers about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices, the country's competition regulator said on Friday. The tech giant has been embroiled in legal action in the country in recent months as the government mulled and later passed a law to make Google and Facebook pay media companies for content on their platforms. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the court found Google wrongly claimed it could only collect information from the location history setting on user devices between January 2017 and December 2018. A setting to control web and application activity, when turned on, also enabled Google to collect, store and use the data and was turned on by default on the devices, according to the ACCC. Users were also not informed that turning off location history but leaving the "Web & App Activity" setting on would allow Google to continue to collect data, the court found. The regulator said it would seek penalties, but did not specify the amount. A Google spokesman said that while the court had rejected many of ACCC's claims, the company disagreed with the remaining findings and was reviewing its options, including a possible appeal. (With input from agencies)

Australia finds Google misled customers over data collection

Australian PM Scott Morrison has demoted two of his cabinet ministers amid rising controversies over sexual misconduct at the workplace.

Australian PM Scott Morrison demotes two ministers

Australia is facing out-of-season floods that are worst in a century, with tens of thousands of people evacuated, dams overflowing and livestock stranded.

Once-in-a-century floods drown Australia

A former crown prosecutor, Mr Porter entered parliament in 2013 and became attorney general in 2017.

Australian attorney general denies rape allegation

Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook Inc pages on February 18 after the social media giant blocked all media content.

Australia: Govt slams FB's content blackout, states move as 'Wrong, heavy handed'

The Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison has apologised to a former staffer who alleges that she was raped by a parliamentarian in Defence Minster's office. PM Morrison vows a strict probe against the crime and promises to punish the person.

Australia: PM Scott Morrison apologises to woman who was raped in Parliament

A massive effort by firefighters in Australia's Perth brought large bushfire near Perth under control. However, strong winds are still a challenge.

The fire at Perth Hills destroyed at least 81 homes.

Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan said the devastation caused was "almost too much to comprehend". 
But after "a bleak couple of days", he said, firefighters managed to keep the flames at bay overnight as the blaze threatened homes in more populous areas.

"This is a truly remarkable achievement given the ferocity of the fire. And that, as far as we know, no additional homes have been lost overnight thanks to the incredible work of our fireys," McGowan said.

Seven firefighters sustained minor injuries but there was no death.

The bushfires have 10,000 hectares (24,700 acres) since they were sparked Monday.

It comes about a year after Australia was hit by unprecedented climate change-fuelled bushfires, devastating whole communities and wiping out billions of animals.

More than 3.5 million hectares were burned across Western Australia during 2019-2020 but the state was largely spared the loss of properties and lives seen in the country's more densely populated southeast.

Scientists say fires are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, with people living in urban-bushland areas like the Perth Hills especially vulnerable to the impact of blazes.

Hundreds of people have fled the area in recent days and emergency warnings remain in place.

More than 250 firefighters were operating in rough and hilly terrain, making their task "really difficult", said department of fire and emergency services commissioner Darren Klemm.

Winds of up to 70 kilometres an hour (43 mph) have left some water-bombing planes grounded and were continuing to fan the flames.

(With AFP inputs)

A massive effort by firefighters in Australia's Perth brought large bushfire near Perth under control. However, strong winds are still a challenge. The fire at Perth Hills destroyed at least 81 homes.

A massive effort by firefighters in Australia's Perth brought large bushfire near Perth under control. However, strong winds are still a challenge. The fire at Perth Hills destroyed at least 81 homes. Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan said the devastation caused was "almost too much to comprehend". But after "a bleak couple of days", he said, firefighters managed to keep the flames at bay overnight as the blaze threatened homes in more populous areas. "This is a truly remarkable achievement given the ferocity of the fire. And that, as far as we know, no additional homes have been lost overnight thanks to the incredible work of our fireys," McGowan said. Seven firefighters sustained minor injuries but there was no death. The bushfires have 10,000 hectares (24,700 acres) since they were sparked Monday. It comes about a year after Australia was hit by unprecedented climate change-fuelled bushfires, devastating whole communities and wiping out billions of animals. More than 3.5 million hectares were burned across Western Australia during 2019-2020 but the state was largely spared the loss of properties and lives seen in the country's more densely populated southeast. Scientists say fires are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, with people living in urban-bushland areas like the Perth Hills especially vulnerable to the impact of blazes. Hundreds of people have fled the area in recent days and emergency warnings remain in place. More than 250 firefighters were operating in rough and hilly terrain, making their task "really difficult", said department of fire and emergency services commissioner Darren Klemm. Winds of up to 70 kilometres an hour (43 mph) have left some water-bombing planes grounded and were continuing to fan the flames. (With AFP inputs)

Firefighters bring Perth bushfire under control, but danger remains

Canberra celebrates the day marking British invasion of the continent as Australia day. PM Scott Morrison believes in celebrating the 26th of January, many disagree. Palki Sharma Upadhyay has a report.

Gravitas: Scott Morrison draws fire

The combined worth of Australian billionaires was assessed to be 52.4% higher this week than at the same time last December.

Australian billionaires get 50% richer amid pandemic

Australia said on Monday it had detected cases of the new fast-spreading coronavirus strain identified in the United Kingdom.

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Two travellers from the United Kingdom to&nbsp;Australia's New South Wales state were found carrying the mutated variant of the virus that Britain has said could be up to 70 per cent&nbsp;more infectious. Both are in hotel quarantine, and the recent spike in infections in Sydney is not linked to this, authorities said.

However,&nbsp;Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt said&nbsp;there are no plans to follow other countries in halting flights from the UK.

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Chase told journalists on Monday that Australia's lodging isolate framework, under which global appearances enter required 14-day observed isolate at committed inns, implied Australia would not be doing likewise.&nbsp;

"Something in Europe is that they have not received a comparable [hotel quarantine] framework," Hunt said.&nbsp;

Australian health authorities said a virus strain in northeastern Sydney matched a traveller from the United States, but how it got from the airport to the community was puzzling.

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Much is unknown about the strain, but experts said current vaccines should still be effective against it.

Countries around the world have begun banning flights and travellers from Britain as London said Sunday the spread of a more-infectious new coronavirus strain was now "out of control”, stoking fears among many that a resurgence in the peak-level cases could be seen in parts of the world if the new variant of COVID-19 isn’t stopped.

Earlier, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that the new strain of the coronavirus is “out of control” and suggested parts of England will be stuck in the new, highest tier of restrictions until a vaccine is rolled out.

Emerging scientific evidence suggests the new variant, which Hancock said has also appeared in Australia and continental Europe,&nbsp;can spread significantly more quickly than previous strains in circulation and is behind the surge in infections in recent days.

The government had initially announced an easing of restrictions to allow families to meet over Christmas, but changed its plans after it was presented last week with dire analysis of the new strain that is running rampant across southeast England.&nbsp;

Britain has been badly hit by the pandemic, with more than 67,000 deaths of those testing positive for the virus.

Australia said on Monday it had detected cases of the new fast-spreading coronavirus strain identified in the United Kingdom. Two travellers from the United Kingdom to Australia's New South Wales state were found carrying the mutated variant of the virus that Britain has said could be up to 70 per cent more infectious.

Australia said on Monday it had detected cases of the new fast-spreading coronavirus strain identified in the United Kingdom. Two travellers from the United Kingdom to Australia's New South Wales state were found carrying the mutated variant of the virus that Britain has said could be up to 70 per cent more infectious. Both are in hotel quarantine, and the recent spike in infections in Sydney is not linked to this, authorities said. However, Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt said there are no plans to follow other countries in halting flights from the UK. Also read: COVID-20? Twitter abuzz with conspiracy theories after discovery of new strain of coronavirus Chase told journalists on Monday that Australia's lodging isolate framework, under which global appearances enter required 14-day observed isolate at committed inns, implied Australia would not be doing likewise. "Something in Europe is that they have not received a comparable [hotel quarantine] framework," Hunt said. Australian health authorities said a virus strain in northeastern Sydney matched a traveller from the United States, but how it got from the airport to the community was puzzling. Also see: Countries that have blocked travel from UK after the emergence of new strain of coronavirus Much is unknown about the strain, but experts said current vaccines should still be effective against it. Countries around the world have begun banning flights and travellers from Britain as London said Sunday the spread of a more-infectious new coronavirus strain was now "out of control”, stoking fears among many that a resurgence in the peak-level cases could be seen in parts of the world if the new variant of COVID-19 isn’t stopped. Earlier, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that the new strain of the coronavirus is “out of control” and suggested parts of England will be stuck in the new, highest tier of restrictions until a vaccine is rolled out. Emerging scientific evidence suggests the new variant, which Hancock said has also appeared in Australia and continental Europe, can spread significantly more quickly than previous strains in circulation and is behind the surge in infections in recent days. The government had initially announced an easing of restrictions to allow families to meet over Christmas, but changed its plans after it was presented last week with dire analysis of the new strain that is running rampant across southeast England. Britain has been badly hit by the pandemic, with more than 67,000 deaths of those testing positive for the virus.

After UK, Australia detects new fast-spreading coronavirus strain

Australia`s most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) on Monday reported 15 new local COVID-19 cases compared with 30 a day earlier and warned that more venues could be added to a list of virus-exposed locations.

Australia: New South Wales reports 15 new local COVID-19 cases

Australia's Gold Coast Beaches are swamped by foam caused by rough seas. Some people turned up at the beaches for a party. WION's Palki tells you why this was a bad idea.

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