Australia faces major demographic, economic and technological changes, the latest Intergenerational Report has forecast.

The story of Australia since colonisation is a story of migration, and the country's immigration system is once more at the centre of heated political debate. But how accurate are claims that ...

Every five years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) counts every person and every household in the country as part of the Census of Population and Housing. That includes Australians, young and ...

Paul Keating once remarked that before his creation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation leaders’ summit in 1992, an Australian prime minister basically showed up to only two international ...

Australia could be one of the safest places on Earth if, or rather when, a global catastrophe strikes. New research has found Australia's isolation, self-sufficiency, and political stability mean it ...

Australia is a huge, fascinating country with a long and complex history. For more than 65,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples lived across the land, deeply connected to its ...

"See it before it gets ruined" might be a tourist-trade cliché, but when it comes to our beaches, many are indeed on borrowed time. According to Nature Climate Change, Australia is the country most ...

A coronial inquest is examining the death of Indigenous 13-year-old Budda Spencer, who had for years been on the radar of South Australian police and child protection ...

A chronology of key events: Uluru, a sacred Aboriginal site, is one of Australia's best known attractions 40,000 BC - The first Aborigines arrive from south-east Asia. By 20,000 BC they have spread ...

Australia’s supermarket giants were thrown into the public eye in 2024, as the government and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched their inquiry into grocery retailer ...