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Tropical Cyclone Narelle made landfall in Western Australia on Friday, disrupting production at liquefied natural gas plants and cutting off power to thousands of residents.

Australia has granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who were in the land down under for a tournament when the war in Iran began. Eric Sorensen explains how the players got caught up in the fallout of the war, and why some of them may choose to return to Iran...

Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Co-Founder & Principal at Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to discuss Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 10-day trade and diplomatic mission to India, Australia and Japan, against the backdrop of war breaking out in Middle East.

During his visit to Australia, Prime Minister Mark Carney doubled down on his pitch for “middle powers” to work together. Mackenzie Gray looks at what Carney told Australia’s parliament, and the deal he and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed.

Prime Minister Mark Carney was visiting a Sydney-based think tank Wednesday morning when he was met with protests outside. Flags in support of the Khalistan movement could be seen as Carney was leaving the Lowy Institute. The protests centred around the Carney government’s re-engagement with India.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Australia for the second leg of his high-stakes international trade mission on Tuesday. But as MacKenzie Gray reports, Carney’s trade mission has been overshadowed by the ongoing tension in the Middle East, including the war between the U.S. and Iran.

In his address to Australian parliament on Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the two nations had signed a series of new agreements on critical minerals and that Australia would join the G7 critical minerals alliance.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Australia, as Canada seeks to build on already strong intelligence ties by broadening collaboration in trade and defence. Anne Gaviola has this story and more in Business Matters for March 3, 2026.

A crowd gathered at Sydney Airport on Tuesday, waving pre-Iranian Revolution flags and urging members of the Iranian women’s soccer team to stay in Australia, amid fears they would face persecution at home for refusing to sing the national anthem at an Asian Cup match.

Pro-Palestine protesters clashed with Sydney Police Monday over Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit. Herzog is in the country to show solidarity with Australia’s Jewish community following last December’s deadly mass shooting at Bondi Beach.

A pack of roughly 10 dingoes found circling the body of B.C. teen Piper James on a K’gari beach last week will be culled, according to Australian government officials. The 19-year-old’s body was found surrounded by the wild animals last Monday after her family said she ventured out for an early-morning swim.

Friends and family are identifying the woman who died on a popular Australian tourist island as 19-year-old Piper James from Campbell River. As Travis Prasad reports, the teen is being remembered for her sense of adventure and kindness.

An autopsy indicates the B.C. teen found dead in Australia this week likely drowned. Piper James was found on a beach on the country’s east coast surrounded by a pack of dingoes. Travis Prasad has more.

The Canadian Press and Australian media have identified a 19-year-old Canadian woman found dead on a popular Australian tourist island off the coast of Queensland on Monday as Piper James, from Campbell River, B.C.

Australia is now one month into a social media ban for kids under the age of 16. Tech Expert Mike Agerbo has more on the world-first ban and how it’s being enforced plus, Meta makes big cuts to its job force as it looks to shift focus.

In the month since Australia’s social media restrictions for under-16 children took effect, an estimated 4.7 million accounts have been deactivated or restricted. Nivrita Ganguly reports on what other countries, including Canada, can learn from the enforcement of this world-first ban.

Thousands of firefighters on Saturday toiled in Australia’s Victoria state to get the upper hand on bushfires that have razed homes, cut power to tens of thousands and burned vast swathes of bushland.

RCMP say one man was arrested in Kelowna after a large quantity of illicit drugs was uncovered in a shipment of pickles. Two other men were arrested in Australia.

The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a “major, major threat” because of the Iran war. “No country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues to go in this direction,” Fatih Birol said at Australia’s National Press Club in Canberra on Monday. Anne...

According to a recent article in the ‘Sunday Times’ Prince Harry is hoping that his children Archie and Lilibet will be able to visit his father, King Charles III, for the first time in four years. Additionally, a local petition may prevent Meghan and Harry from traveling to Australia as planned. Also – Sarah Ferguson’s...