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

Papua New Guinea said on Friday that Alphabet's Google will build three subsea cables, funded by Australia under a mutual defence treaty, in a key upgrade to the digital backbone of the biggest Pacific Island nation.

Australia’s social media ban for children 16 and under officially went into effect at midnight local time on Dec. 10.

As interest in US politics surges and Australians' views shift for the worse, Americans reflect on what it's like to be an expat down under.

The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said on Thursday.

A fictional drone attack during the I Marine Expeditionary Force’s Steel Knight exercise, all part of preparations for an upcoming deployment to Australia, had the Marine “docs”

An Indian man living in Australia shared a video praising an act of honesty after a stranger left a note with insurance details following a minor car accident, highlighting differences in civic responsibility.