South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas told CNN’s Jake Tapper his country’s world-first social media ban for children under 16 is about protecting them from addictive algorithms, asking: “What’s the worst thing that’s gonna happen here by delaying kids’ access to social media?

Australia will book A$20 billion ($13.3 billion) in savings in Wednesday’s mid-year budget update as the government works to offset rising spending pressures, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said.

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and presents some of the earliest evidence of seafaring

A delegation of United Nations inspectors have raised the alarm about Australia's detention facilities and a breach of human rights.

More than one-third of Tuvalu’s 11,000 population applied for climate visas to migrate to Australia under a deal the countries struck two years ago.

I'm appalled by the murderous shooting attack at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, Australia. These are the results of the anti-Semitic rampage in the streets of Australia over the past two years, with the anti-Semitic and inciting calls of “Globalise the Intifada” that were realized…

Australia is facing one of its worst teacher shortages in decades, with public schools increasingly relying on university students who have not yet qualified to keep classrooms running.

In a move that reflects Australia’s increasingly digital future, cheques are being phased out of the financial landscape. The government plans to end cheque use entirely by 2030, and for those with old cheques lying around,