By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) – A year-long slide in Australian home prices is showing signs of bottoming out far earlier than anyone thought possible, greatly lessening the risk of…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Qantas Airways Ltd and Airbus SE will jointly invest A$2 million ($1.34 million) in a biofuel refinery being set up in Australia’s Queensland state that would convert…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Job vacancies in Australia eased in the three months to February, the third straight quarter of decline, but still far above pre-pandemic levels in a sign of…
By Renju Jose and Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia took a step on Thursday towards a historical referendum to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders recognition in the constitution…
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s competition watchdog will consider a greenwashing complaint made against Etihad by a local environmental group that accused the airline on Wednesday of misleading…
By Lewis Jackson and Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – An A$300 billion ($201.21 billion) refinancing task for Australia’s biggest banks is about to get harder, say analysts, as appetite for…
(Reuters) – Australia’s financial crime regulator said on Friday it accepted an enforceable undertaking from payments giant PayPal Holdings’ local unit to ensure its compliance with the country’s anti-money laundering…
(Reuters) – An Australian court has fined ANZ Group Holdings A$10 million ($6.6 million) in penalties for non-compliance with consumer credit protection laws in a case that stems from the…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s top grocer said on Tuesday that while the food inflation rate was beginning to decline, prices were taking longer than expected to retreat off pandemic highs.…
(Reuters) – Australia’s competition regulator on Friday granted interim authorisation to Qantas Airways and its budget arm Jetstar for a continued coordination of two Jetstar Asian-based joint ventures – Jetstar…
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – Retail theft has hit record levels in Australia, government statistics show, putting pressure on grocery giants Woolworths Group Ltd and Coles Group Ltd that…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More work is needed to break down bureaucratic barriers to technology sharing in the second pillar of a trilateral defense agreement between Australia, Britain and the United…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A measure of Australian consumer prices rose by less than expected in January thanks to a drop in the cost of travel, clothing and fruit and vegetables,…
TUCSON, Ariz — A stranded hiker was rescued Friday, by an aircrew from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO) Tucson Air Branch launched a…
By Harish Sridharan (Reuters) -Australian logistics company Brambles Ltd raised its annual earnings outlook on Friday as it offset cost pressures with product price hikes, sending its shares 7.5% higher…
By Muyu Xu and Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese utilities and traders have stepped up purchases of Australian coal in February, encouraged by signs of further policy relaxation after trade…
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -A police operation is underway to rescue an Australian university professor and three researchers taken hostage in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea, the…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian consumer sentiment took a dark turn last week after the country’s central bank raised interest rates to a decade high and warned yet more pain lay…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Fortescue Metals Group is looking to cut up to 1,000 jobs across its back office and clean energy unit as part of a cost-cutting exercise, The Australian…
By Scott Murdoch and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – A run of strong earnings and stock market outperformance at Australia’s “big four” banking giants is set to fade later in…
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Rio Tinto Ltd apologised on Monday for the loss of a tiny radioactive capsule that has sparked a radiation alert across parts of the vast state of…
By James Redmayne and Joseph Campbell SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian park rangers believe they have stumbled upon a record-breaking giant toad deep in a rainforest. Dubbed “Toadzilla”, the cane toad,…
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Assistant Minister for Trade Tim Ayres called for the removal of China’s “trade impediments” on Australian exports in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines…
By Muyu Xu and Melanie Burton SINGAPORE/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Chinese interest in Australian coal has been limited by the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday and high domestic inventories, meaning few…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian inflation re-accelerated in November as strong demand drove holiday costs higher and flooding pushed up vegetable prices, a sign inflationary pressures had yet to peak. Data…