Australia’s top disaster relief agency has been shut down after an internal revolt and allegations of fraud led to the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Floods and natural disasters that hit all but one Australian state and territory in 2022 cost the economy A$5 billion ($3.48 billion) and stoked inflation according to Treasury ...

The damage inflicted by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred on Queensland and northern New South Wales has been extensive. Several areas have had infrastructure badly damaged, and many homes have been ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia's history. Wind speeds ...

SYDNEY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Australia is considering setting up a disaster relief force to help relieve a military overstretched by regular natural disasters, the prime minister said on Tuesday, as ...

Deakin University criminologist Dr James Martin describes Australia’s illicit tobacco market and rising nicotine consumption ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The World War II shipwrecks scattered across Australian ...

A lot of electric cars on the market have something called vehicle-to-load (V2L). It means power can be exported from the high-voltage battery, transforming the car into a mobile generator. In ...

Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heat wave ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia’s history. Wind speeds ...