A troubling rise in antisemitic attacks and incidents in recent years have left some feeling anger after the kind of deadly attack they felt was sure to happen.

Australia is the first country to take such sweeping action, but many countries, including the United States, are considering age-gating social media in similar ways. “We know the world will be watching,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a September speech at the United Nations.

Australia's government on Wednesday revised the outlook for inflation sharply higher but it still added to its annual spending plans, leaving it up to monetary policy to lean against cost pressures in the economy.

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's Labor government on Sunday pledged to bolster the country's universal healthcare system with a free medical advice line and telehealth service if it wins the May 3 general election, in which cost-of-living pressures loom as a ...

Explore the Reserve Bank of Australia, its role in monetary policy and currency management, its history since 1960, and how it drives Australia's economy.

The UK government is looking at Australia’s decision to block social media for children under 16. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his team say they are watching the policy closely but have not made a decision.

In October 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the Australian government was reviewing a citizen-led petition asking to bar U.S. President Donald Trump, his family and his administration from entering the country. One popular X thread about the ...

Multiple overseas politicians have explicitly blamed the Australian government in the wake of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, slamming it for its handling of anti-Semitism, as well as its decision to recognise a Palestinian state.

Global online forum Reddit has filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms.

For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.