Australian authorities are removing COVID-19-positive patients and residents in the Northern Territory to a quarantine camp in Howard Springs, after nine cases were identified in the community of Binjari, according to a local official. Hard lockdowns were implemented in Binjari and nearby Rockhole on Nov. 20, according to Northern Territory's chief minister.

As Australia's replacement submarine program continues to languish amid a minefield of political failures, China's latest design has just been deployed off the coast of Taiwan. And it may reveal the crucial role of such stealthy weapons in Beijing's battle plan.

A senior police officer in Australia is being investigated after she sensationally resigned from the Victoria Police force during a live interview. The cop, who said her law enforcement employment was "the best job" she ever had, revealed that a "vast majority" of her former officers don't believe i...

This month the Australian government has passed a sweeping surveillance bill, worse than any similar legislation in any other five eye country. The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) three new powers for dealing with online crime: Data disruption warrant: gives the police the ability to "disrupt data" by modifying, copying, adding, or deleting it.

An Australian senate committee has published a report calling for a blockchain-based national land registry, better clarity over laws relating to smart contracts, and continued efforts to establish international standards for distributed ledger technology. The Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre's second interim report offers 23 recommendations spanning blockchain, consumer data and corporate taxation.

Google is threatening to pull its search engine from an entire country - Australia - if a proposed law goes into effect that would force Google to pay news publishers for their content.

Beijing's monster fishing fleet has long since stripped its own waters bare. Now it is aggressively prowling the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans for a catch. And it is coming to Australia. It grabs as much as it can. As fast as it can. Wherever it can.

Development of a Covid-19 vaccine in Australia was abandoned Friday after clinical trials produced a false positive HIV result among subjects involved in early-stage testing. The result prompted the government to axe plans to purchase millions of doses of the candidate vaccine and instead increase orders of alternatives from AstraZeneca and Novax, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.