How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia

Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the ...

What Is Australia’s ‘Welcome to Country’ Ceremony?

The tradition, dating back thousands of years, is used by Indigenous Australians to greet visitors to their ancestral lands.

‘It’s a mess’: jury walkout smashes Australia’s biennale hopes

The Venice Biennale – art’s answer to the Olympic Games – is in chaos and Australia’s chance to win the top prize won for a ...
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Australia’s Confidence Problem

With just 27 million people, Australia is the world’s 13th largest economy. It has the 11th largest GDP per capita. It ranks 10th on the human development index. Its major cities consistently rank ...

Australia reports lower-than-expected first-quarter inflation — but price growth hits 2-year high

The first-quarter inflation figure was lower than the 4.2% expected by economists polled by Reuters.

Australia's home price growth hits lowest in over a year, led by falls in big cities

SYDNEY, May 1 (Reuters) - Australia's home prices rose at the slowest pace in over a year in April as higher borrowing costs ...

The nationality that has replaced English as Australia’s largest migrant group

Indians have become Australia’s largest migrant group, overtaking the English for the first time amid ongoing pushback ...

Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms

Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters.