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French backpacker Zoe has been waiting tables in Australia for months. But a rule change announced by the government means it won’t guarantee she can stay for a third year.

Australia is, in many respects, remarkably cohesive. Australians report high levels of trust and national pride, express strong support for ethnic diversity, and supported each other through the ...

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SYDNEY, Oct 19 (Reuters) - A senior Australian central banker flagged on Monday signs that the labour market was loosening faster than expected, but cautioned against reading too much into a month of ...

A chronology of key events: Uluru, a sacred Aboriginal site, is one of Australia's best known attractions 40,000 BC - The first Aborigines arrive from south-east Asia. By 20,000 BC they have spread ...

If you are heading on a road trip this summer, you might drive past several ancient sentinels of Australia's volcanic past. Many of them, like the Glass House Mountains, are hard to miss. These ...

Australia approves a massive 1.5-GW wind farm in Victoria, featuring 219 turbines and 600 MW of battery storage, pending final federal approval.

Successive Australian governments have reacted with alarm at China’s influence-building activities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. They have passed foreign interference laws, tightened foreign ...

Water scarcity has always been an important issue in Australia, a country that is known as the driest inhabited continent in the world. Variable rainfall has led to differing accessible volumes of ...