Tag: Australia

• Wednesday, January 6th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  China increases Australian wool quota for 2021; NZ's remains unchanged

  

  China increased its import quota for Australian wool from 36,465 tons last year to 38,288 tons for 2021, according to a newly released official statement. The increase came at a time when China and Australia relations are going through a rough patch.

• Thursday, December 31st 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Australia's Antarctic Program MPV Everest scheduled to leave Hobart next 9 January

  

  MPV Everest arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, on Wednesday to commence work for the Australian Antarctic Program, resupplying Australian stations and changing over personnel this summer.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Widowed penguins comforting each other, winner of Ocean Photograph awards

  

  The year 2020 has produced many poignant and powerful photographs. But a shot of two widowed penguins appearing to comfort one another in Australia has been picked out as a winner in Oceanographic magazine's Ocean Photograph Awards.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Australia and China acrimonious controversy escalates to incendiary tweets

  

  China’s embassy in Australia said politicians there had “misread” a tweet showing a digitally-altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child, and were trying to stoke nationalism.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Wheat prices fell after Australia forecasted its second highest crop ever

  

  Wheat prices fell after Australia forecast its second-highest crop ever and Russia proposed curtailing grain exports next year. Wheat futures fell as much as 3.3% in Chicago trading, the lowest for the contract in almost eight weeks. Corn and soybeans also fell following rainfall in South America during the weekend.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Australia's extreme heat wave with 40c temperatures announced for this weekend

  

  Australia’s extreme weekend heatwave has begun, with temperatures set to soar to 40 centigrade and increase the risk of bushfires in some states. The Bureau of Meteorology has dubbed it “the most significant heat wave of the season yet” and said it will impact millions of Aussies.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Another man dies bitten by a shark at a popular beach in Australia

  

  A man has died after being bitten by a shark at a beach popular with tourists on Australia's northwest coast, authorities said on Sunday. Police were called to a Cable Beach in the morning after reports of the attack.

• Monday, October 26th 2020 - 07:18 UTC

  Another shark attack in Australia's Great Barrier Reef

  

  A 59-year-old man is in critical condition after a shark attacked him on Sunday at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, near the north Queensland city of Townsville, rescuers said.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 06:50 UTC

  World envy: Crowd of 47,000 will pack Auckland's Eden Park for the All Blacks vs Wallabies test match

  

  New Zealand Rugby is expecting a “near-capacity” crowd of some 47,000 to pack into Auckland's Eden Park for the second Bledisloe Cup international against Australia on Sunday.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Icebreaker “donation” for Argentina? Australia's “Aurora Australis”?

  

  According to reports in the Argentine media next November the Australian flagged icebreaker Aurora Australis will be docking in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, and then head for Buenos Aires where, allegedly, she will be incorporated to the Argentine navy fleet and will be participating next to ARA Almirante Irizar in the 2020/21 Antarctica campaign.