Australia

Residents of a coastal resort town on a popular Australian holiday island have been told to leave immediately by authorities as a bushfire worsens.

Australian scientists say they have mapped a million new galaxies using an advanced telescope in the desert.

Australia’s largest telco faces a A$50m (£27.5m ; $37m) fine over its sale of mobile contracts to vulnerable indigenous customers.

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is to reopen its border with neighbouring Victoria for the first time since July after coronavirus cases there fell to zero.

A man has been killed by a shark off a popular beach in Western Australia.

South Australia decided to enter a state-wide lockdown based on a lie told by a man with Covid-19 about his link to a pizza shop, police say.

The state of South Australia will enter an immediate six-day lockdown to curb the spread of a coronavirus outbreak discovered days ago.

Australia has secured 50 million more potential coronavirus vaccine doses through two new agreements that will boost federal government funding of its immunisation plan to more than $3.2 billion.

Officials are easing tight coronavirus restrictions in the state of Victoria after more than 100 days of lockdown.

New Zealanders are to be granted access to Australia in the first opening of international borders by either nation since COVID restrictions were imposed.

The Australian state of Tasmania has recorded its largest-ever stranding of whales after more were found beached during a large rescue effort.

At least a third of 270 whales stranded off the coast of Australia’s Tasmania have died and more are feared to be dying, rescuers say.