Recent articles from publications based in Australia.
The Conversation Australiaby James Wood, Head of School of Population Health and Professor, Infectious Diseases Dynamics and Interventions, UNSW23 Aug 2026
If you’re aged over 70, or over 50 with underlying health conditions, and have tested positive for COVID, you might have been offered free or subsidised antivirals.
top 94%plop score, higher is betterThe Conversation Australiaby Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University23 Aug 2026
When news broke over the weekend that Australia’s first mainland bird flu case in a mammal – the death of a long-nosed fur seal – had been detected, I felt deep sadness and dread for what’s likely...
ABC News Australia23 Aug 2026
In short: Last month, a dozen convenience stores in the Adelaide CBD were ordered to close, but some continue to reopen when orders expire after 28 days.
ABC News Australiaby Josh Dye23 Aug 2026
In short: Residents in a waterfront pocket on the Sunshine Coast are living on edge after a spate of vandalism and trespassing incidents at vacant houses.
ABC News Australiaby Alex Brewster23 Aug 2026
In short: Queensland's corruption watchdog is challenging three disciplinary decisions from the Queensland Police Service (QPS), after taking issue with its interpretation of a recent court ruling.
ABC News Australiaby Sandy Powell23 Aug 2026
In short: David Mason almost drowned off Tasmania's north-west coast in January. A passer-by called Triple Zero when they saw Mr Mason in trouble, and another man made three calls, but two hours...
ABC News Australia23 Aug 2026
In short: The Western Bulldogs will face Collingwood on Friday night. Melbourne and Carlton meet in the second wildcard round match on Saturday evening.
ABC News Australiaby Simon Smale23 Aug 2026
It would be very easy to look at the bare numbers of Australia's two-day, innings victory over Bangladesh in Mackay and see them as a sign that normal service has resumed.
ABC News Australia23 Aug 2026
In short: Indonesian authorities have arrested 72 people over alleged fire-lighting in parts of the country, as massive plumes of smoke choke vast swathes of the country and its neighbours.
ABC News Australiaby Costa Haritos23 Aug 2026
In short: A council in Melbourne’s south-east says it wants the government to refund the costs of removing graffiti on state-owned infrastructure.
ABC News Australiaby Emilia Terzon23 Aug 2026
For many millennials, Ben McKenzie is still best known for his role as a troubled teen from the wrong side of the tracks who was adopted by the wealthy Cohen family.
New Atlasby C.C. Weiss23 Aug 2026
SylvanSport has long lurked as an outlier in the RV world. For years, its primary offerings were skeletal gear-hauling tent trailers unlike virtually anything else on the market.
ABC News Australiaby Karishma Vyas, Leonie Thorne, and Supattra Vimonsuknopparat23 Aug 2026
Accused murderer Simon Carman says he fought Thai teenager in self-defence In short: The Perth man accused of murdering a 17-year-old girl in Thailand after picking her up in Pattaya says he is...
The Conversation Australiaby Akbar Ghobakhlou, Senior Lecturer, Department of Data Science & AI, Auckland University of Technology23 Aug 2026
Possums are among New Zealand’s most destructive introduced mammals. They damage native forests, prey on wildlife and remain a major target of the country’s Predator Free 2050 programme.
PerthNowby Duncan Murray23 Aug 2026
'Penguin parade' undergoes vaccinations for bird flu The nightly parade of penguins on Phillip Island is a tourist favourite, but has recently taken on a more serious tone.
PerthNowby Tess Ikonomou23 Aug 2026
Fears unregulated mining could imperil Pacific nations Commercial deep-sea mining in the Pacific could begin in months without policy guardrails due to increasing rivalry between the US and China...
PerthNowby Staff Writers23 Aug 2026
Iran president says US memorandum best path out of war Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has defended the memorandum of understanding signed in mid-June with the United States as the best way to...
ABC News Australiaby Patricia Karvelas23 Aug 2026
At the last federal election, Tim Wilson won back the seat of Goldstein by 175 votes. The LNP held Longman by 269 votes and in Bradfield, 26 votes determined who went to Canberra.
ABC News Australiaby Alan Kohler23 Aug 2026
As Paul Keating would say, the pet shop galahs are talking about the reason long-term interest rates are surging: the competing demands for money from big-spending governments and AI companies.
ABC News Australiaby Alison Xiao23 Aug 2026
Across Europe, extreme weather is drying up rivers. From the Rhine to the Danube to the Po, critical waterways are falling to record lows.