Latest Australia Headlines
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One Dead in Australian Wildfires That May Burn for Weeks to Come
Jan 12 2026 // One person has died in wildfires in the Australian state of Victoria that have burned out an area slightly larger than Rhode Island. A body was found about 100 meters from a vehicle near the fire-affected town of Gobur,...
Australian State Faces Catastrophic Fire Risk From Heat Wave
Jan 8 2026 // Australia is bracing for catastrophic fire risk in parts of Victoria on Friday as the country swelters through its worst heat wave since the Black Summer bushfires in the summer of 2019 and 2020. Temperatures rose above...
Millions at Risk of Los Angeles-Style Wildfires in Australia
Jan 6 2026 // Millions of people living on the expanding outskirts of Australia’s major cities face an increasing risk of urban wildfires similar to the deadly blazes in Los Angeles last year. Suburbs on the fringes of centers...
Reddit Sues Australia Over Social Media Ban, Citing Free Speech Threat
Dec 12 2025 // Message board website Reddit on Friday filed a lawsuit in Australia’s highest court seeking to overturn the country’s social media ban for children, calling it an intrusion on free political discourse and...
World Watches First Teen Social Media Ban Start in Australia
Dec 10 2025 // Australia’s social media ban for youths took effect Wednesday, a landmark move that’s drawn global attention at a time governments are increasingly enacting rules to shield minors from toxic content and...
Update: PE Firms EQT, CVC Drop $3.44 Billion Pursuit of Australian Broker AUB Group
Dec 1 2025 // Australia’s AUB Group said on Monday its suitors EQT and CVC Asia Pacific had abandoned their pursuit that valued the insurance broker at A$5.25 billion ($3.44 billion), sending its shares more than 17% lower. Shares...
Australia Banking Regulator Warns on Elevated Risks From Abroad
Nov 20 2025 // Risks to Australia’s financial system from overseas are heightened and current geopolitical volatility will remain for some time, according to the nation’s banking regulator. While the country is well-placed to...
Australia Watchdog Warns Private Credit With Tougher Action
Nov 13 2025 // Australia’s corporate regulator is threatening more aggressive legal action against private credit funds that fail to protect investors, as the A$200 billion ($131 billion) industry continues to expand. The...
Australia Spy Chief Warns of China Hackers Probing Networks
Nov 12 2025 // Australia’s spy chief has accused hackers working for China’s government of probing his nation’s communications and infrastructure networks. In a speech to a financial regulation conference on Wednesday...
Swedish PE Firm EQT Offers to Buy Australian Insurance Broker AUB in $3.4B Deal
Oct 28 2025 // Australia’s AUB Group said on Tuesday it had granted Swedish private equity EQT exclusive access to its books after receiving a takeover offer which values the insurance broking company at A$5.25 billion ($3.41...
Australia Tells AI Chatbot Companies to Detail Child Protection Steps
Oct 22 2025 // Australia has ordered four artificial-intelligence chatbot companies to explain their measures to protect children from exposure to sexual or self-harm material, as its internet regulator beefs up safety measures on the AI...
Australia’s Weather Bureau Casts Doubt on Prospects for La Niña
Oct 20 2025 // Australia’s weather bureau is not convinced that a La Niña weather pattern is forming that could change rainfall patterns and bring wilder weather to parts of the Americas, Asia and Oceania, affecting crop...
People Moves: Aon Names Chisholm as Chairman of Asia Reinsurance Solutions; Markel Appoints Luxford as Head of Distribution and MGA Strategy, Australia
Oct 10 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon and Markel Insurance. A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Names Chisholm as Chairman of Asia Reinsurance Solutions Insurance broker Aon plc...
Beetle That Threatens Australia’s Grains Industry Found in Imported Diapers
Sep 18 2025 // Australia has detected the larvae of khapra beetles in imported nappies sold in supermarkets nationwide, the agriculture ministry said, raising concerns the pest could infest grain storages and disrupt agricultural...
Australia Pledges $6 Billion by 2030 to Tackle Climate Hazards as Disaster Risk Rises
Sep 16 2025 // Australia will spend A$9 billion ($6 billion) on climate adaptation through 2030 as it braces for more frequent, severe and overlapping hazards caused by global warming, the government said in two climate-related reports...
Business Moves: Gallagher Re Agrees to Buy Steadfast Re in Australia; Lockton Re Launches in Dubai for Expansion in MENA Region
Sep 4 2025 // Gallagher Re Agrees to Buy Steadfast Re in Australia Gallagher Re, the global reinsurance broker and subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher, has signed an agreement to acquire Steadfast Re Pty Ltd., a Sydney-based reinsurance...
Australia Has Banned 3 ‘Forever Chemicals’ – but Europe Wants to Ban all 14,000
Aug 25 2025 // Last month, Australia’s ban on the import, use and manufacture of three types of “forever chemical” came into effect. These chemicals – PFOA, PFOS and PFHxS – have long lifespans and resist breaking...
Google Agrees $36 Million Fine for Anti-Competitive Deals With Australia Telcos
Aug 18 2025 // Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country’s two largest telcos to pre-install its search...
Accenture to Buy Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX for Reported $650 Million
Aug 15 2025 // Accenture said on Thursday it will buy Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX in its largest-ever deal in the sector, with the Australian Financial Review valuing the transaction at more than A$1 billion ($650 million). A...
Australia Pension Fund Mercer Sued Over Customer Disclosures
Aug 14 2025 // Australia’s financial regulator is suing A$70 billion ($46 billion) pension fund Mercer Super, accusing it of failing to report multiple investigations into serious member services issues. In a Federal Court filing,...
