Deep in the burning forests south of Sydney this week, volunteer firefighters were clearing a track through the woods, hoping to hold...

They called it a wet T-shirt contest, but there were no winners or losers. Not many shirts, either. One man wore nothing...

When a mass shooting shattered Australia in 1996, the country banned automatic weapons. In its first years of independence, it enacted a...

One journalist is being investigated for reporting that several boats filled with asylum seekers recently tried to reach Australia from Sri Lanka....