Oceania Australia Northern Territory schools were to be advised to help children as young as 14 transition their gender without their parents’ consent under draft guidelines that have now been scrapped
Oceania Australia With the federal election just weeks away, 15% of people aged 18-24 are not registered to vote: the Electoral Commission is stepping up efforts to encourage young Australians to register and vote
Oceania Australia Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the accelerated rearmament of fighter jets and warships would cost A$3,5 billion ($2,6 billion) and increase Australia's deterrence to potential adversaries
Oceania Australia The country's biggest carbon traders have sought to make a coordinated defense of troubled carbon offset regime, after weeks of political upheaval and claims that most carbon offsets issued by the government do not represent real emissions reductions
Oceania Australia 4,0% unemployment rate in February 2022 showed a further decrease from January's 4,2% and is at its lowest since August 2008
Oceania Australia The downpours that had hit New South Wales and Queensland, killing 20 people, have now reached Sydney, which faces an intensified threat and tens of thousands of people advised to evacuate their homes
Oceania Australia The country said it will list the entire Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas as a terrorist organisation, the last Western nation to do so, placing restrictions on funding or providing other support
Oceania Australia After a dramatic decline in numbers due to deforestation, fire, drought and disease, the country has declared the koala an endangered species on much of its east coast; it is estimated that there may only be 50.000 animals left in the wild
Oceania Australia Dryandra Woodland National Park, the newest in the country, has been created in Western Australia with the aim of protecting rare and critically endangered wildlife species, including the numbat, the iconic marsupial native to the area
Oceania Australia The Australian Open 2022 ends today, marked this year by the two great controversies: the issue of letting Djokovic in and the back-and-forth over the possibility of wearing T-shirts in support of tennis player Peng Shuai to pressure China over her fate
Oceania Australia The country's largest renewable energy hub will to be operational in 2024; the billion-dollar plant will bring the renewable energy portfolio to more than 2500MW, over 1/8 of the country's current solar, wind and battery capacity
Oceania Australia Sha Lang has set up a "stick library" on Mulambin Beach near Yeppoon in central Queensland, where there is a collection of sticks for dogs to play with and - hopefully - return or leave one of their own
Oceania Australia The first true millipede was discovered in Western Australia, 60m underground; it has the most legs of any living animal -1306-, as the largest number of legs found so far is 750