(CANBERRA, Australia) — Australia’s prime minister said he has discussed the disappearance of an Australian student in North Korea with other world leaders attending the Group of 20 summit and accepted offers to find out what has happened to him. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the plight of Alek Sigley had been raised with him by world leaders attending the ...

Australia is urging Indo-Pacific nations to step up their commitment to free trade as the worsening fallout from the U.S.-China impasse threatens global growth. “It is in no-one’s interest in the Indo-Pacific to see an inevitably more competitive U.S.-China relationship become adversarial in character,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison will say in a speech Wednesday to an event hosted by Asialink ...

The far north and far south of Australia both registered their lowest temperature in more than five years on Tuesday morning, according to Weatherzone. In Tasmania, Hobart’s -0.2 degrees Celsius shortly before 5am on Tuesday was the city’s lowest temperature since 2013. It was also its third coldest morning in the last 20 years. In the tropical north, Darwin Airport dipped to 12.7C ...

Australia and New Zealand have been urged to do more to fight the drug trade across the Pacific and take responsibility for the fact that the demand for drugs in cities such as Sydney and Auckland was having devastating effects on small Pacific nations. Drug traffickers transport cocaine and methamphetamines through Pacific nations from the US and Latin America to Australia and ...

Australians are increasingly wary about China, and worry about the potential for foreign interference in our democracy, according to new polling from a major foreign policy thinktank. The Lowy Institute poll suggests trust by Australians in China to be a responsible global actor has hit its lowest point since the survey began 15 years ago. Only 32% of the sample say ...

More than 45 per cent of Australia’s residential aged care facilities are running at a loss. Of these, nearly 20 per cent have greater cash outgoings than incomings, meaning they have to reach into their own pockets or rely on support from their parent organisations and shareholders to remain financially viable. The sector’s strain is even starker in the country’s ...

Australia is currently in the early stages of the rollout of the 5G network which promises to revolutionise the country’s wireless infrastructure, but not everyone is convinced. Nine.com.au has put together this explainer to address every question you might have about Australia’s next generation phone network before it rolls out across the country. What is 5G? 5G is the fifth-generation cellular ...

you would hope by now that the government is ready to face up to reality. I know this might be a rather optimistic anticipation on my part, but surely the treasurer and his predecessor and now prime minister, realise they have a problem with the economy? One of the more amusing things this week was the government and their conservative ...

Electric public transport is coming to Australia and soon commuters in major cities could be whispering about it. They will be talking in hushed tones because British tests with electric-powered buses apparently found they were so quiet the passengers lowered their voices to match. And a company providing electric taxis says trials show the softer engine noise and smoother ride ...

Cory Bernardi has told colleagues he is considering quitting parliament amid speculation he could rejoin the Liberal party. The Guardian understands the South Australian senator, who quit the Liberals in 2017 to form the Australian Conservatives party, is closely considering his future, and has canvassed the option of leaving the Senate before his term expires in 2022. Bernardi is said to ...