Tag: Australia

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Australia and New Zealand iron out quarantine dispute ahead of Wallabies-All Blacks test matches

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday she had telephoned Australian counterpart Scott Morrison to defuse tensions over a scheduling dispute between the countries' rugby teams.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  Massive star scanning confirms that so far, there are no extraterrestrial civilizations

  

  Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing – not yet, at least.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  China escalates rift: launches investigation into alleged Australian wines' subsidies

  

  China on Monday launched an investigation into alleged government subsidies of some Australian wine imports, a widely expected follow-up to an anti-dumping probe that Australian representatives said they would oppose.

• Thursday, August 27th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Parade of penguins waddling to burrows, a lockdown online hit in Australia

  

  A nightly penguin parade live-streamed from a deserted Australian park has become an online lockdown hit, with hundreds of thousands tuning in to watch the cute creatures waddle back to their burrows from the sea.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Australian marathon swimmer breaks the men's record for number of English Channel crossings, 35

  

  An Australian marathon swimmer on Sunday (Aug 16) became the second woman to break the men's record for number of Channel crossings - and avoided new UK quarantine rules on French arrivals on her return.

• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Lawsuit against Australia for failing to disclose climate-change risks to its sovereign bond purchasers

  

  A 23-year-old student has filed a lawsuit against Australia's government alleging it has failed to disclose climate change-related risks to investors in the country's sovereign bonds, in the first such action against the Australian government.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Beijing warns Canberra on Hong Kong and advises Chinese citizens not to travel Australia

  

  China stepped up a travel warning to Australia on Monday, telling its citizens of a risk of being searched “arbitrarily” by law enforcement authorities, as tensions between both countries grow. The foreign ministry's latest notice comes a month after Beijing warned of “discrimination” against Chinese people in Australia, telling its citizens not to travel there.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Australia's wool industry urges caution with Beijing since China takes 78% of the greasy clip

  

  Australia's wool industry has urged caution as politicians seek to steer exporters away from an over-reliance on China. A parliamentary committee is holding hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday as it examines how to diversify Australia's trade and investment profile.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Australian icebreaker “Aurora Australia” could end in Argentina

  

  Australian researchers' ambition to keep the Aurora Australis icebreaker under the Aussie flag has been dealt a blow, with reports that the vessel has been sold to Argentina. For three decades the 'Orange Roughy' transported thousands of scientists, crew, and supplies for Australia's Antarctic mission.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Mining giant Rio Tinto admits blowing up ancient Australian aboriginal rock shelters

  

  Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in the remote Pilbara region in Australia, blasting near the 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine.