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

Qantas airlines has been fined $100 million for misleading customers by selling tickets on flights that had already been cancelled over two months before; this misconduct affected over 86.000 customers across more than 70.000 flights between 2021 and 2023

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

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

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