Swedish plans to develop and trial a salt-based energy storage system will enlist the electric kiln technology of award-winning Australian company Calix, in an agreement with Sweden-based SaltX Technology.

Leading scientists working across Australia and Antarctica have described 19 ecosystems that are collapsing due to the impact of humans and warned urgent action is required to prevent their complete loss.

Species which targets specific rainforest flowers was last seen in 1923

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The pledge comes as Australia passes a new media law designed to make tech giants pay for news.

The countdown is on until South Australia's single-use plastics ban begins to roll out, with business owners preparing for the change next week.

Facebook will restore news content to its platform in Australia after the government agreed to amend its proposed News Media Bargaining Code. In an update posted today, Facebook’s William Easton, managing director of Australia and New Zealand, said that the company is “satisfied that the Australian government has agreed to a number of changes and guarantees that address our core concerns.” News content will return to the platform “in the coming days,” Easton said.

Facebook will reverse a decision to block access to news content, Australia's government says.

I am still perplexed and confounded at how many people seem to think that Facebook is the one at fault for blocking links to news in Australia. Again, the law (that was about to be approved by the Australian Parliament despite Facebook warning them...

Canberra map bus directions currently only show Queanbeyan buses.

Australians are being blocked from accessing news in their Facebook feeds, in a dramatic escalation of the social media giant's stand-off with the federal government.

Telstra has said it is now blocking approximately 6.5 million suspected scam calls a month, at times up to 500,000 a day, thanks to automating the former manual process that sat at around 1 million monthly scam calls.

New figures show just how abundant ecologically destructive carp are in Australia's waterways - now the government is considering using a herpes virus to reduce the population

Two women are charged over the alleged stabbing attack and kidnapping of a 24-year-old, who police found in the boot of a car on a NSW highway after a truckie noticed something strange.

Australia’s prime minister said on Monday that Microsoft is confident it can fill the void if Google carries out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia. A Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government goes ahead with a draft law that would make tech giants pay for news content.

The Wurdi Youang Aboriginal site could be 10,000 years old, making it the world’s first astronomical observatory.

Australia is failing to keep up with the growing threat of extreme weather as global warming increases the risk in areas once thought to be safe, according to a new report. Australia is a land well used to nature’s extremes. It is the world’s driest inhabited continent, where droughts can last for years. The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 were the most intense on record.

A national survey indicates nearly half of all Year 10-12s (15-18 year-olds) have had sex, but experts say sex ed in Australia is a "mixed bag". Is our curriculum too focused on "bugs and babies and bodies"?

A man who was missing in Australia for 18 days has been found after surviving on mushrooms and dam water, police say. Search efforts launched after Robert Weber, 58, went missing in the state of Queensland were called off this week. But police said he had been found near a dam on Sunday by a "property owner", who has been identified in Australian media as a local politician.