Recent articles from publications based in Australia.
ABC News Australiaby Eden Gillespie2 Sept 2026
In short: Queensland Police are investigating an alleged rape at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Gympie earlier this year.
ABC News Australia2 Sept 2026
The Brisbane Festival is set to kick off with a bang on Saturday night with the annual river fireworks display Riverfire.
ABC News Australiaby Olivia Nunes-Malek, Jay Carstens, Mark Rigby, and Megan Hughes2 Sept 2026
In short: Above-average temperatures are expected for south-east and western Queensland during the first weekend of spring.
ABC News Australiaby Duncan Bailey2 Sept 2026
In short: A 10-year-old Launceston boy has been awarded a certificate of bravery by the state government, after alerting his mum to a kitchen fire.
PerthNowby Eliana Hullett2 Sept 2026
Big Freo Spring Clean: Locals organise first city-wide clean, targeting long-neglected Hungry Jacks site Spring cleaning season is around the corner, and a group of committed Freo locals are...
PerthNowby Abe Maddison2 Sept 2026
Call it out: online register to drive anti-racism An online register of racism and discrimination against First Nations people is receiving up to $2 million in Commonwealth funding to help inform...
ABC News Australiaby Peter de Kruijff2 Sept 2026
In short: A group of desert dingoes that live in a small pocket of Victoria and South Australia will be assessed for threatened species status under federal environment law.
ABC News Australiaby David Speers2 Sept 2026
"Fellow Australians, if you are seeing me now, it means I have been murdered." Pauline Hanson famously recorded these words in a 12-minute video message nearly 30 years ago, soon after she founded...
ABC News Australiaby Meghna Bali and Bhat Burhan2 Sept 2026
Jony Raval's phone does not stop ringing. He has been in Kathmandu for just two hours, and already his family wants to know what he has found. "I didn't come here to be a story," Jony says.
ABC News Australiaby Hanan Dervisevic, Jarrod Fankhauser, Jessica Riga, Joshua Byrd, and Matt Liddy2 Sept 2026
The tunnels were built to harness the power of Nepal's rushing mountain rivers. Now, they have become the focus of one of the country's most desperate rescue missions.
New Atlasby Ben Coxworth2 Sept 2026
All too often, lubricating your bike chain ends up with you inadvertently lubing the ground beneath it, also.
PerthNowby Eliana Hullett2 Sept 2026
State plans for urban development at Port Beach face backlash over unfulfilled planning promises An attempt to allow urban development on a prime coastal spot has been knocked back by residents and...
ABC News Australiaby Kellie Scott, Sarah Mashman, Elsa Silberstein, and Emma Morris2 Sept 2026
From the outside, Elodie's marriage looks pretty ordinary. She and her husband are busy working parents of two young kids, going through the motions.
ABC News Australiaby Katherine Smyrk2 Sept 2026
Darren Hayes learned to sing by listening to his mother. "She had the most beautiful, melodic voice and I would mimic her," the musician and former frontman of Savage Garden says.
PerthNowby Staff Writers2 Sept 2026
Nepal rescuers race to reach any survivors in tunnels Rescue teams are racing to reach dozens of workers believed to be trapped inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal's mountains, offering one of the...
The Conversation Australiaby Jose Carlos Borrero, Adjunct Assistant Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California2 Sept 2026
The massive January 2022 eruption of Hunga volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga took the world by surprise.
PerthNowby Sophie Gannon2 Sept 2026
White Ribbon: Hundreds of Trinity College students take part in walk against domestic violence Almost 400 Trinity College students have taken to the streets to stand against domestic and family...
PerthNowby Sophie Gannon2 Sept 2026
Free mosquito repellent dispensers rolled out across Perth as mosquito season approaches Free mosquito repellent dispensers are being rolled out across metropolitan Perth as West Australians are...
PerthNowby Sophie Gannon2 Sept 2026
Belmont joins three other councils in push to send more waste to energy and not landfill The City of Belmont has joined the cities of Swan and Kalamunda and the Shire of Mundaring in directing...
PerthNowby Sophie Gannon2 Sept 2026
Decision to ban synthetic verge lawns could soon be reversed in City of Bayswater Synthetic lawn could soon be allowed once again in the City of Bayswater.
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