The year was 1901, Australia had just become a federation and the Prime Minister at the time, Sir Edmund Barton, announced a competition to design a brand-new flag for this brand-new nation. Out ...

Australia flags first annual budget surplus in 15 years. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the country is on track for the first surplus since the global financial crisis in 2008.

Australia will introduce laws to parliament to increase penalties for companies subject to major data breaches, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said, after high-profile cyberattacks hit millions of ...

Australia’s main opposition party has scrapped election pledges to end remote work arrangements for public servants and sack tens of thousands of government employees amid declining support in ...

New Zealand’s acting Prime Minister Winston Peters has accused Australia of copying his country’s flag, telling its trans-Tasman neighbor to get its own design.

Australia's first ever flag, which lay forgotten and in pieces for almost a century at Newcastle Cathedral, is revealed after a painstaking 18-month restoration. Skip to main content.

THEY’RE the unidentifiable symbols of Australia hiding in plain sight. Everywhere yet ignored. Now, some say, it’s time people took notice. They are the Australian state and territory flags ...

Socceroos fan displays hilarious Simpsons-themed Australia flag from one of the show's most iconic episodes ever. Australia fans sported a flag containing a reference to The Simpsons ...

She is the first squash athlete given the honour of carrying the Aussie flag. Australia’s Chef de Mission Petria Thomas made the announcement to more than 300 Australian team members inside the ...

The largest Australian flag was hoisted on Australia Day at a mosque in Sydney, surpassing the flag currently flying on top of the Australian Parliament House. Celebrating the national holiday at ...