COP31 co-host Australia’s fossil fuel exports produced more emissions than the combined 44 “least developed countries” in the 10 years since the Paris Agreement, a new Global Witness analysis of Australian government data can reveal Following Paris’s landmark COP21 climate conference in 2015 – where countries agreed to make efforts to keep global heating below…
Social media platforms face scrutiny over addictive algorithms; new law aims to give Australians greater feed control. Published On 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026 Social media platforms could be forced to give users in Australia an option to turn off “powerful” algorithms under draft laws to be unveiled by the government this week, Communications Minister…
A spearfisher was killed on Saturday in Australia’s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, police said. The 35-year-old man was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island near the port city of Albany in Western Australia state when he was attacked before noon local time, a police statement said. The man was brought by boat…
Reddit has launched a challenge in Australia’s highest court against the nation’s landmark social media ban for children. The online forum is among 10 social media platforms which must bar Australians aged under 16 from having accounts, under a new law which began on Wednesday. The ban, which is being watched closely around the world,…
Police say a 39-year-old man has been taken into custody over the incident in Sydney’s Woollahra suburb. Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025 Australian police have arrested a 34-year-old man after he drove his car into the front gate of the Russian consulate in Sydney, according to police and local media. In a statement,…
New Australian government report finds coral decline across the reef due to ‘climate change-induced heat stress’. The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, according to a new Australian government report, as ocean temperatures soared in 2024. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) said on Wednesday that it surveyed…
YouTube will be included in Australia’s world-first social media ban for children under 16, after the government ditched a previous exemption for the platform. The video sharing site was set to be excluded from the ban – which will limit TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and Snapchat and is due to start in December. Under the…
More than one-third of the people in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, which scientists predict will be submerged by rising seas, have applied for a landmark climate visa to migrate to Australia, according to official figures. Tuvalu’s ambassador to the United Nations, Tapugao Falefou, told Reuters on Sunday he was “startled by the huge…
