It’s an improbable, inhospitable country marooned off south-east Asia and containing nearly all of the world’s deadliest animals. Yet Australia has marketed itself a sunny place for work-shy Larrikins who spend their days surfing,

Follow the play-by-play updates from the AUS vs ENG, first Test match at Optus Stadium, Perth, on November 22, 2025

Australia's National Indian Film Festival is expanding into regional territories and has signed partnerships with India's NFDC and IFFI.

On Australian television, cricket scores are presented in the opposite way to what they are in England and most other countries. For example, a score of 200-4 would actually be shown as 4-200, with the wickets taken displayed first instead of the runs.

Turkey will host the COP31 climate summit in 2026 with Australia leading the negotiation process, a document released at the COP30 summit in Brazil showed on Friday, confirming an earlier announcement that a split hosting arrangement was expected.

Australia cricketer fumes over Usman Khawaja blunder in first Test – ‘beyond a joke’ - England were dismissed for just 172 in their first innings after winning the toss and electing to bat first in Pe

Dale Steyn was a member of the South Africa side who won Down Under in 2008-09, the first team in 16 years to beat Australia on home soil

Fina, a category three cyclone sitting in the Van Diemen Gulf with wind gusts up to 165 kph (102 mph), was predicted to pass to the north of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, later on Saturday as a "severe tropical cyclone", the nation's Bureau of Meteorology said.