1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (394+ words) SYDNEY, Jan 26 (Reuters) " Thousands marked Australia's national day on Monday by attending "Invasion Day" rallies in support of Indigenous Australians and calling for unity,while separate anti-immigration protests also drew crowds. Australia Day commemorates the "day Britain established the state…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (175+ words) SYDNEY, Jan 20 (Reuters) " Australian police are investigating whether a Canadian tourist discovered dead on "a beach in the northern state of Queensland drowned or was attacked by a pack of dingoes, the wild dogs native to the country. The "19-year-old…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (237+ words) Dec 15 (Reuters) " Australia's corporate regulator said on Monday it has imposed an additional capital charge of A$150 million ($99.59 million) "on the local bourse operator, ASX, in response to an inquiry launched earlier this year. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (226+ words) Dec 1 (Reuters) " Australian home prices rose in November with large gains in several state capitals, amid a record level of housing unaffordability, property consultant Cotality said on Monday. Prices increased 1% in November from October to a median value of A…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (281+ words) (Reuters) -Australia's Federal Court has ordered superannuation fund Cbus to pay an'A$23.5 million ($15.17 million) penalty for serious failures'in processing death and disability insurance claims, the country's corporate regulator said on Tuesday. The penalty was imposed against United Super Pty, the…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (383+ words) SYDNEY (Reuters) -Police arrested and charged a former National Australia Bank employee who they alleged was the "gatekeeper of funds" for a sophisticated Sydney crime syndicate that has been accused of defrauding "all financial institutions." Early Thursday, financial crime detectives…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (132+ words) SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia police said on Tuesday two people were killed in an explosion at an underground mine in the far west region of the state of New South Wales. Emergency services were called to a mine about 450 km (280 miles)…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago  (343+ words) SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday that a right-wing opposition lawmaker should apologise for comments suggesting an unsustainable number of Indians were migrating to the country. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, a senator in the centre-right Liberal Party,…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (215+ words) (CORRECTS paragraph 3 to say Australia's embassy in Tehran, not Iran's embassy) DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has downgraded diplomatic ties with Australia, its foreign ministry said on Thursday, a week after Australia expelled the Iranian ambassador over accusations that Tehran directed two…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (179+ words) SYDNEY (Reuters) -A man was arrested on Monday after a car crashed into the Russian consulate in Sydney, Australian police and local media said. Television footage from Australian TV networks Sky News and Nine showed a car with a smashed…...