Oceania Australia A new targeted therapy for the treatment of a rare bile duct cancer called cholangiocarcinoma has been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, a decision made on the basis of overall response rate and duration of response
Oceania Australia Surfing Australia has been awarded a $1 million federal grant for the 'New Wave of Female Boardriders' project over three years to make surfing more accessible to women and girls across the country
Oceania Australia Geological evidence suggests that the largest known impact structure in the world may be buried under the desert in Australia; 600 kilometres wide, the crater was formed over 500 million years ago and may have triggered the Earth's first mass extinction
Oceania Australia Almost 68% of Australian tourist sites are at risk if the climate crisis continues; Uluru, the Daintree and Bondi Beach are among the iconic Australian sites that could be affected if the planet reaches even 2°C of warming by 2050
Oceania Australia Australia's ability to respond to an outbreak of a deadly strain of avian influenza will undergo a planned test today at national level; the country is the only continent not to have recorded any cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza