Australia

Canberra joins 19 nations pledging to help reopen the strait. Washington says it's not enough.

The Royal Australian Navy marks 125 years with the largest gathering of foreign warships in Sydney since 2013. Military aircraft traced contrails over the Harbour Bridge as 6,000 personnel from across the Indo-Pacific assembled.

Jet fuel prices have doubled in a fortnight, but the real killer for the middle-class holiday is the collapsing discretionary dollar.

New data shows 41% of Australians now see starting a business as their top wealth-building strategy, ahead of saving or seeking a promotion.

Australia imports 85% of its fertilizer, with more than half of the nation's urea coming from countries now cut off by the Gulf conflict.

Companies House data reveals the steepest wealth outflow in British history as founders flee Labour's tax reforms. The lessons for Australia are uncomfortable.

After fuel leaks and helium problems forced a retreat, the Artemis II rocket is headed back to Kennedy Space Center for humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in 54 years.

The Prime Minister was booed, called a 'genocide supporter', and escorted out through a rear exit. Elon Musk weighed in. The world watched. And Albanese called it 'incredibly positive'.

New data from 47 countries shows teenage girls in English-speaking nations are among the hardest hit by heavy social media use, with Australia's position outside the top 10 happiest countries unchanged.

The company will remove the privacy feature from Instagram on May 8, opening user messages to potential scanning and third-party access.

While Asian nations slash government workweeks and cap fuel prices, Canberra is still tinkering with supply-side measures. The view from the region looks rather different.