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Australia’s first big opera star sang for kings and died penniless

Before Nellie Melba captivated international audiences, another Australian soprano rose to international fame.Lesser known today, Amy Sherwin, who grew up in ru

UFOs over Australia and the military’s ‘very real-world’ concerns

It's 1982, and a young UFO researcher is sitting in a director's office at the Department of Defence headquarters in Canberra eager to get his hands on informat

WWII plane shot down on remote WA beach took stash of diamonds with it

Loading...After more than 80 years, a little-known wartime survival story and a mysterious diamond heist are the talk of the town in outback Australia.On a dust

Australian PM condemns arson attack on Melbourne synagogue as antisemitic

Arsonists caused extensive damage to a synagogue in the city of Melbourne on Friday in what Australia’s Prime Minister Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has con

Antisemitism blamed for arson attack on synagogue in Australia

Australia's prime minister has blamed antisemitism for an arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne.Cars and buildings across the country have been

Australian police hunt for two men accused of setting fire to Melbourne synagogue – UPI.com

Fire crews work at the scene of a fire at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea, Melbourne, Australia, on Friday. The fire, which engulfed the syn

German museums hand over Australian ancestral remains

Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with .The sound of shells and harmonised voices echo around a room in the German capital of Berl

Former senior bureaucrat Dennis Richardson to lead urgent review into agency tasked with $368bn Aukus contract

The defence minister has appointed former senior defence and security bureaucrat Dennis Richardson to conduct an urgent top-to-bottom review of the Australian S

Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis

The agency overseeing Australia’s almost $400bn acquisition of nuclear submarines is facing a staff morale crisis and the threat of an external review of its

Teenage waterskier to represent Australia three years after serious boating accident

Fifteen-year-old Loxton school girl Eira Dalzell is set to wear the green and gold for Australia next year after overcoming a traumatic waterskiing accident thr

Rookies, veterans and the unlikely group of Aussies that brought down India during the World Series war

Household names like Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh, Greg Chappell and Doug Walters were missing from Australia's line-up for the first Test against India at The Gabb

Digital ads accusing UN aid agency of funding Hamas appear on Australian news sites

Australians have been targeted on major digital news websites by ads accusing the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees of funding Hamas combatants as part of an