Australia will book A$20 billion ($13.3 billion) in savings in Wednesday’s mid-year budget update as the government works to offset rising spending pressures, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said.

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas told CNN’s Jake Tapper his country’s world-first social media ban for children under 16 is about protecting them from addictive algorithms, asking: “What’s the worst thing that’s gonna happen here by delaying kids’ access to social media?

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and presents some of the earliest evidence of seafaring

Former Australia white-ball captain Aaron Finch expects England to win a Test but says it is "hard to see" how they can bowl Australia out twice on a regular basis to win the series. England are 2-0 down after successive eight-wicket defeats and need to win the remaining three games to regain the Ashes.

The landmark law—the first of its kind in the world—kicked in on Wednesday.

The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said on Thursday.

As interest in US politics surges and Australians' views shift for the worse, Americans reflect on what it's like to be an expat down under.

A fictional drone attack during the I Marine Expeditionary Force’s Steel Knight exercise, all part of preparations for an upcoming deployment to Australia, had the Marine “docs”