Melbourne, Australia

Corporate Responsibility: Are Australian companies doing enough? Hear from Jason Pellegrino Managing Director of Google Australia and New Zealand, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz CEO & MD, Mirvac Group and Mike Henry President Operations, Minerals Australia, BHP. Moderated by The Australian's Editor ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian politics these days feels like a story in People magazine. Political journalism, indeed Parliament itself, has been reduced to a forum for rumors about sex. It all began in February with the sensational news that Barnaby Joyce, then deputy prime minister, had been ...

The Milton Keynes-based team finished 2017 very strongly, with two wins from the final six races, but perhaps owing to their recent history of slow starts they've only won in Australia once – back in 2011. Neither Max Verstappen nor Daniel Ricciardo has finished on the podium in Melbourne, with fifth and ...

People who have eaten at the popular Melbourne restaurant Cumulus Inc in the past three weeks are advised to get a free hepatitis A vaccine, after a staff member became sick with the disease. The Department of Health was notified of the man's illness late Wednesday. He was described as being a "food ...

Police have raided a solicitor's office and two Melbourne accounting firms as part of a money-laundering investigation targeting the Comancheros outlaw motorcycle gang. Victorian and Federal officers arrested nine people, seven of whom are facing charges, in a search of 44 properties including gyms in ...

"It's the Australian Grand Prix – it's my first race in Formula One, my first race with Williams, and my first race in Australia. It's very exciting and I'm really looking forward to getting there, to start work and to get closer to the lights going out. Looking back at my career, I have always been a racing guy and I've ...

If I didn't love Australia I wouldn't have started the hashtag, I would have just packed my bag and left.” ... University of Melbourne academic Dr Berhan Ahmed, a former chair of the African Think Tank, said lack of diversity in Australian newsrooms and other institutions allowed racist narratives to take root.

There is plenty to see, eat and drink at the Australian Open in Melbourne. You feel like a part of the action even if you get just a ground pass without tickets to major matches. PHOTOS: REUTERS, COURTESY OF SHAMINI RAJARETHNAM. Ms Shamini Rajarethnam, 32, chief executive of Rationale ...

A million-dollar reward will be offered for information on the execution-style murder of gangster Willie Thompson in Melbourne more than 14 years ago. Thompson was murdered while ... He was also known to be involved in drug trafficking with particular links to Western Australia. In announcing the reward, ...

The home invasion follows a string of aggravated burglaries in the past few weeks in Melbourne. Four youths were last week charged over one of the more high-profile incidents in Melbourne's west where a woman allegedly had a knife held to her throat as her young son slept beside her. The Australian's ...

I'd seen him only once. He was patting down dirt in a pot plant on the communal landing; hunched over the way my Russian grandmother would be, feet wide apart, knees slightly bent, one hand balanced on the glass patio table next to him. There were two chairs, and I hoped that meant he was married.

Sheeran is making history this month with the biggest concert tour Australia has ever seen. He will tonight play the second of four Etihad Stadium shows. No other act has played the venue that often on the same tour. He has sold 250,000 tickets in Melbourne and 1 million in Australia and New Zealand, ...

The fashionable annual Melbourne Cup horse races attract celebrities from Paris Jackson, Solange and Gigi Hadid to supermodels Lara Stone and Kate Upton and even Snoop Dogg, while the yearly Australian Open tournament brings the tennis glitterati for its intense matches — think Will Ferrell to Will ...

“We will allege this was a standalone, Islamic State-inspired attack, designed to cause harm to our community,” the Australian federal police acting deputy ... terrorism threat level was raised, police have charged 85 people, including this woman, following 36 counter-terrorism operations around Australia.