CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian state on Tuesday reported its first case of a superbug in a hospital patient who likely picked up the drug-resistant fungus in Britain. Victoria deputy chief health officer Brett Sutton said health officials were taking a “search and destroy” approach to ensure the Candida auris fungus did not spread. “The man was isolated as soon ...

Australia’s fee-for-no-service scandal is continuing to grow, with financial institutions forced to repay customers $260m after charging them ongoing fees without providing services. The five biggest financial institutions – the Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac, ANZ Bank, and AMP – have had to pay or offer customers $222.3m in refunds and interest for failing to provide personal advice to customers while ...

Death comes for us all, but how?  These are the most likely causes. National health data shows about 40 per cent of deaths in Australia in the past five years could be traced back to six causes – heart attacks, dementia, lung cancer, strokes, lung disease and diabetes. But what are the top causes of death in your area? If ...

ACROSS Australia there are dozens of “supercharged” suburbs which, if you invest smartly enough, could make you a fortune. Potential homebuyers are being urged to snap up homes in these power suburbs, which often sit within a commutable distance from major cities, as well as resurgent towns and communities across regional Australia in the latest Price Predictor Index (PPI) research ...

The escalating trade war between China and the United States has hogged the international limelight amid rising concerns over its impact on the global economy and its geopolitical implications. By comparison, the ongoing wrangling between China and Australia may seem secondary – it should not be. In fact, the strategic and geopolitical arm-wrestling between the two countries, albeit starkly different in sizes, is much more ...

The news that Australia is refusing to join the UN’s Global Compact for Migration will cause howls of complaint at home and abroad. “Don’t you know what you are doing?” these people will cry. “Do you see who you are allied with? The US and Hungary. Really?” The Australian government should ignore these howlers. For it is not the government ...

On Tuesday August 7 at just after 11pm, Australia will welcome its 25 millionth resident. It’s impossible to say exactly who this will be – it could be a newborn baby or it could be a person moving to Australia, but what we do know is that overseas migration is fuelling population growth (accounting for 62 per cent), and the ...

Beleaguered firefighters across the U.S. are being pushed to their limits battling wildfires that have broken out in rapid succession across the West. They’ll soon get reinforcements – from the other side of the globe. Nearly 150 specialists from Australia and New Zealand are being deployed this weekend to provide assistance to American firefighters, the National Interagency Fire Center said Tuesday. The ...

  Sport and politics mixed this week and for once the result was not a Molotov cocktail but, at least in theory, a soothing elixir. Sport Australia’s [formerly the Australian Sports Commission] national sports plan Sport 2030 is, like many such largely philosophical documents, long on rhetoric and short on detail. The headline-grabbing passages of the 71-page report carry a ...

Australia imports nearly US$12bn worth of goods “at risk” of being made using slavery each year, including more than $6bn in computer products and $4bn in garments from China, as well as fish, cocoa and even human organs from around the world, the latest Global Slavery Index reports. The estimated number of slaves in Australia has more than trebled – from 4,300 ...