Australia News

• Race to rescue nearly 50 beached whales in Australia after dozens dead

  Volunteers worked frantically on a second day Wednesday to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a beach in Western Australia.

  World

  Jul 26, 2023
  
• Cyclone Ilsa avoids big towns as storm hits Australia’s northwest coast

  Damage was still being assessed in the path of Ilsa, which made landfall in the early hours 150 kilometres northeast of the iron ore export town of Port Hedland.

  World

  Apr 14, 2023
  
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• Australia facing historic cyclone: ‘Everyone is on edge’

  Ilsa reached the highest Category 5 intensity Thursday over the Indian Ocean and is expected to maintain that destructive level as it crosses the Pilbara coast by early Friday.

  World

  Apr 13, 2023
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• Canada can take ‘lessons’ from Australia on registry for foreign interference: Trudeau

  Australia’s public registry requires people advocating for a foreign state to register their activities, under penalty of fines or jail time.

  Canada

  Mar 15, 2023
• Foreign interference is not just a Canadian problem. What are our allies saying?

  As attention on foreign interference grows in Canada, its allies are sounding the alarm over the scale of the issue in their own nations.

  Canada

  Feb 28, 2023
• 4 passengers dead in helicopter collision over Australian beach

  Two helicopters collided in an Australian tourist hotspot Monday afternoon, killing four passengers and critically injuring three others.

  World

  Jan 2, 2023
• Magnitude 6.0 earthquake rattles southeast Australia, damaging buildings

  The quake's epicentre was near the rural town of Mansfield in the state of Victoria, about 200 km northeast of Melbourne.

  Environment

  Sep 21, 2021
• Almost 3 billion animals killed, displaced by Australian bushfires: WWF study

  "This ranks as one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history," the CEO of the World Wide Fund for Nature said.

  Environment

  Jul 28, 2020
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• Coronavirus: Australia reports sustained slowdown in COVID-19 infection rate

  Health Minister Greg Hunt reported there were about 4,400 coronavirus cases nationally, with the rate of growth in new infections slowing from 25-30 per cent a week ago to an average of 9 per cent over the past three days.

  World

  Mar 30, 2020
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• Australia’s tourism industry to receive government aid after wildfires

  Some 29 people and millions of animals have been killed so far in the burning bush in Australia -- a country famous for its pristine beeches, abundant wildlife and open-air sporting events.

  World

  Jan 18, 2020