Virgin Australia shares surged 11.4% in its trading debut on Tuesday, lifting its market capitalisation to A$2.58 billion ($1.7 billion), with dealmakers hopeful it will revive Australia's subdued ...

Australia now taxes crypto as property, with capital gains on swaps, DeFi and wrapped tokens, plus new ATO data sweeps targeting 1.2 million users. Australia is one of the world’s most crypto ...

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Increasing the number of nuclear powered submarines operated by Australia, Britain and the United States will make the Indo Pacific more secure and was in the United States' interests, Australian ...

The Australian government has not agreed to host Rodrigo Duterte amid the petition of the camp of the former chief executive to the International Criminal Court to allow his interim release from ...

Scott Morrison is about to be handed the Companion of the Order of Australia, which is the country’s highest civilian honour. If you’re wondering why, you’re not alone — especially since ...

An attempt to illegally import 62,000kg of exotic foods into Australia has landed a woman in jail. Inside mislabelled polystyrene boxes, border agents found a variety of packages, some containing ...

Alarm bells are ringing over the Chinese-led military build-up taking place in Australia's region, with fears a "nuclear cascade" could unfold as more nations seek to obtain weapons of mass ...

The US defense secretary wants Australia to bloat its defence warchest with 3.5% of GDP funding. Where will that money come from? Hegseth and his supporters don't bother to say.

The United States wants Australia to lift spending on defence to about $100 billion a year, with its Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warning of a "real and potentially imminent" threat from China.

Increasing Australia’s defence budget to 3 per cent of gross domestic product would be acting in our own interests, however hard finding the money in the federal budget might be. As Anthony ...

Shifting just 20% of Australia’s iron ore exports to green steel products could potentially increase annual export revenues by tens of billions of dollars.