A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia's national ...

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...

Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of the Australia Day weekend. It is the second time in 12 months that the statue ...

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching ...

Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the ...

Another major hospitality group has decided to snub Australia Day celebrations, instead encouraging patrons to spend money at its ritzy venues on the “January Long Weekend”.

The police said they were investigating whether “overseas actors” were involved in the vandalizing of synagogues and a day ...

The building, adjacent to a synagogue and Jewish school, was set on fire and antisemitic slogans were graffitied in is the ...

An Australian state has committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes after a childcare center was ...

Because January 26 falls on a Sunday this year, many people will get a long weekend thanks to a public holiday on Monday.

The study marks a major shift in understanding the Sydney funnel-web spider, with each newly identified species occupying ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...