Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrived in New Zealand on Sunday for high-level talks hours after the country's government chose to support Canberra in its dispute with China on barley tariffs, signalling goodwill to work on differences in how to approach Beijing.

New Zealand backs Australia in trade spat with China ahead of Ardern-Morrison meeting

Australia is witnessing a crisis involving mice as rural communities in New South Wales are bombarded by rodents, forcing Australian farmers to seek a banned poison from India in hopes of eliminating mice populations.

Australia's 'mice war' intensifies: Country seeks banned poison from India to fight plague

Australia has moved the WTO over China's politically-charged trade war. Canberra's first appeal was blocked by the Chinese. Will the second effort be successful? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: Australia moves WTO over China's tariff war

Taliban has publically threatened Afghan security guards who have worked for Australian embassy. The embassy has been shut by Australia. Taliban has circulated pictures of Afghan security guards who have worked for the embassy.

Taliban threatens Afghan security guards at Australian embassy

An Australian court held that the environment minister is morally responsible to the next generation for the effects of climate change. Is climate litigation the only way to hold governments accountable? Palki Sharma gets you a report.

Gravitas: Australian court pulls up government for climate change

Australia was due Friday to shut its embassy in Afghanistan, highlighting the security fears for foreign missions and their local workers as US-led troops pull out of the war-torn country.

Australia shutters embassy in Afghanistan, sparking exodus fears

Stay-at-home orders have been passed for all locals and current residents of Australia’s city of Melbourne and the rest of Victoria as the region went into a snap lockdown to control the widespread of the coronavirus.

Australia: Victoria orders snap lockdown for 7 days as Covid cases double

'Blood Moon' rising: Harbinger of Doom or a beautiful celestial event?

At a time of worsening ties between Australia and China, Australia's ambassador to China was denied entry to a heavily guarded Beijing court during closed door hearing of an espionage case against Australian blogger Yang Hengjun.

China keeps diplomats out of espionage trial of Australian blogger

Millions of mice have entered homes in Australia. They are on the walls, roofs, inside containers and in water tanks. Mice have also attacked hotels and are biting patients in hospitals. How did this happen? Palki Sharma brings you a report.

Gravitas: Mouse plague in Australia

More than five million people in Australia's second-biggest city of Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown Thursday over an another Coronavirus outbreak in the city.

Melbourne goes under 7-days long snap lockdown

Chinese-born Australian academic and author Yang Jun will go on trial in China on espionage charges next week, after spending more than two years in detention, Canberra's foreign minister has confirmed.

Australian academic to face spying trial in China

Australia's medical body has warned that citizens in the country were "sitting ducks" for coronavirus due to virus variants amid the slow vaccination process. Watch: Australian Medical Association (AMA) said many citizens were delaying getting vaccinated as it urged authorities to ramp up the vaccination drive.

Australian citizens 'sitting ducks' due to vaccine hesitancy, says medical body

A surfer has died after being bitten by a shark at a beach north of Sydney, Australian authorities said on Tuesday. Paramedics were called to Tuncurry Beach, about three hours' drive from Australia's most populous city following reports of the attack on Tuesday morning.

Surfer dies after shark attack in Australia 

A new extinct crocodile species dating back to millions of years ago has been discovered in the sparesely-populated Australian Outback. A team from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (NT) on Monday announced that they have identified the new species belonging to the Baru genus but have not yet named it, reports Xinhua news agency.

New extinct crocodile species found in Australia

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 carried out its first repatriation flight from India after temporarily banning all travel from the COVID-ravaged country last month, the government said, with 80 passengers arriving in Darwin on Saturday from New Delhi.

Australia carries out first repatriation flight from India after travel ban

Head coach Steve Corica is confident Sydney FC`s foreign strike force can give the defending champions a boost when action in the A-League continues through the up-coming international window.

Corica relieved to retain strike force for A-League battle

While the covid cases have been constantly on decline, the Australian government has decided to stick to its plan of reopening its borders to the rest of the world only from the middle of next year.

Australia to keep international borders closed till middle of 2022: Officials

The goals have flowed for Matt Derbyshire since the Englishman arrived at A-League debutants Macarthur FC, but it has been his impact beyond his scoring that has most impressed coach Ante Milicic.

A-League fortunate to have striker Derbyshire, says Milicic

Nearly half of the people who were due to land in Australia from India have been grounded as they had either tested positive for coronavirus or had been in close contact with someone else who was infected.

COVID-19: Nearly 50% passengers of Australia's repatriation flight grounded

Australian farmers and factories are facing a severe attack by millions of mice, as farmers struggle to protect their crops from the worst rodent invasion in decades.

Watch: Australia faces worst mouse plague — Rats 'raining' from the sky

Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state has reported zero COVID-19 cases for a fifth straight day. This comes as authorities continue their hunt for a missing link in new infection chain reported last week.

Australia's New South Wales reports zero COVID-19 cases for fifth straight day

Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill was kidnapped by an alleged criminal group in an attack on Syndey's north shore and held for ransom. However, now the reports have surfaced claiming that one of those four attackers was the brother of MacGill’s ex-wife, Marino Sotiropoulos.

Brother of former cricketer Stuart MacGill's ex-wife among those accused in his kidnapping

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