In the past two decades, South-East Asia averaged 8.5 per cent gross domestic product growth, and foreign direct investment flow into the region grew nearly fourteen-fold. While China and the US have ...

For eastern New South Wales, temperatures will peak on Monday, including highs nudging 40C in Western Sydney, before a cool change flushes out the heat and threatens the fifth India-Australia test ...

The southwest corner of Western Australia has been subject to a serious drought in recent decades. A range of factors, such as natural variability and changes in land use, ocean temperatures and ...

Most parts of western Queensland had less than 50 millimetres during winter and spring, usually a dry time, and some sites in the far west – as well as in the Northern Territory and South ...

A spell of wild weather is on the cards for everywhere from Queensland to Tasmania, with thunderstorms forecast to sweep ...

Tropical cyclone Seroja has ripped across a 1,000km (621-mile) stretch of Western Australia, ... The storm was later downgraded to a tropical low, though strong winds continue to move south-east.

The following maps show where new wildfires, under 12 hours old, were burning in Australia on Thursday afternoon. Full and up-to-date information on fires and their severity can be found at ...

In the years following 1786, New South Wales was massively expanded to take up pretty much the entire continent apart from Western Australia and Tasmania, which was then Van Diemen’s Land.

Greater economic engagement with South-East Asia is needed not only for Australia’s sustained prosperity but also for its political clout as a bona fide Asian power.

For eastern New South Wales, temperatures will peak on Monday, including highs nudging 40C in Western Sydney, before a cool change flushes out the heat and threatens the fifth India-Australia test ...

A spell of wild weather is on the cards for everywhere from Queensland to Tasmania, with thunderstorms forecast to sweep across Australia's east over the next 48 hours.