Oceania

Tech News

What to know about Australia’s new under-16 social media ban

Experts say Australia’s new social media ban might not change children’s online lives as much as regulators hope.

10 December 2025

Earth News

Shell gave €5m to this museum. Should parents be worried?

School materials emblazoned with the Shell logo are shaping how children as young as 10 learn about climate change.

8 December 2025

Tech News

Meta removes accounts for under-16s due to Australia social media ban

Under-16s on Meta platforms are starting to have their accounts removed ahead of Australia’s world-first social media ban.

4 December 2025

New Zealand

New Zealand man in custody after swallowing Fabergé diamond pendant

The suspect remains in custody after allegedly swallowing an €18,000 Fabergé octopus pendant from an Auckland store. The pendant, which is a special edition James Bond item commemorating the film Octopussy, has not yet been recovered.

3 December 2025

Earth News

Unprecedented levels of forever chemicals found in dolphins and whales

Scientists have sounded the alarm over toxic forever chemicals, after analysing 127 whales and dolphins.

30 November 2025

Australia

Shark attack kills woman, injures man in Australia

A shark attacked two mid-20s swimmers at Crowdy Bay National Park in Australia, killing a woman and seriously injuring a man. A bystander’s quick first aid likely saved the survivor before he was airlifted to hospital.

27 November 2025

Australia

Thai woman found alive in coffin moments before temple cremation

A 65-year-old Thai woman shocked temple staff when she began moving inside her coffin moments before cremation. Her brother believed she had died after becoming unresponsive for two days, but staff heard faint knocking and rushed her to a nearby hospital.

25 November 2025

No Comment

Australian senator Pauline Hanson suspended for wearing burqa in parliament

Australian Senator Pauline Hanson was suspended for seven sitting days after entering Parliament in a burqa during a protest against the rejection of her bill to ban full-face coverings.

25 November 2025

New Zealand

Two climbers dead after fall on New Zealand's Aoraki Mount Cook

Authorities say they were alerted late on Monday night local time that four climbers needed help as they attempted to climb Mount Cook. Two people were rescued and airlifted by helicopters, as authorities work to recover the bodies of the two remaining climbers.

25 November 2025

Business

BHP scraps Anglo American copper mega-merger after repeat failed bids

Australian mining giant BHP has dropped its renewed bid for Anglo American after preliminary talks, clearing the way for the miner to move ahead with its own plans.

24 November 2025

No Comment

Bagpipers in Melbourne set world record with AC/DC performance

Hundreds of bagpipers set a new world record in Melbourne, Australia, by performing AC/DC’s "It’s a Long Way to the Top", ahead of the band’s first show in ten years.

12 November 2025

No Comment

Rare footage shows remora fish whale-surfing on humpbacks off Australia

Rare footage shows sucker fish whale-surfing in wild joyride off coast of Australia

8 November 2025

Tech News

Australia adds Reddit and Kick to social media ban for kids under 16

The ban takes force Dec. 10.

5 November 2025

No Comment

WWI soldiers' bottle messages found on Australian beach

Two messages in a bottle written by Australian soldiers early in their voyage to France in World War I have been discovered more than a century later on Australia’s coast.

29 October 2025

Australia

Elderly woman found dead on Australian island after being left by cruise ship

Investigations are underway following the discovery of the 80-year-old's body on Lizard Island on Sunday.

29 October 2025

Tech News

Social media platforms to comply with Australia’s social media ban

With less than two months before children under 16 won’t be able to create social media accounts in Australia, the platforms say they still disagree with the new regulation but will ultimately comply.

28 October 2025

Australia

Dutch Olympian and child rapist van de Velde denied Australian visa

Netherlands' volleyball player Van de Velde was sentenced to four years in prison in the UK in 2016 after he was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl.

28 October 2025

No Comment

Severe winds batter New Zealand for second time in a week

Powerful winds swept across parts of New Zealand for the second time in a week on Thursday, disrupting flights, forcing school closures, and causing widespread transport delays.

23 October 2025

Nature

People use garden tools to protect millions of migrating red crabs

Up to 100 million crabs are expected to make their way from their forest burrows to the shoreline where they breed.

23 October 2025

Tech News

Denmark eyeing Australia’s under-16 social media ban as possible model

A Danish ambassador said the Nordic country 'will be looking at what Australia does' on its world-leading ban.

17 October 2025

Travel News

Qantas customers hit by hackers as millions affected by data leak

Travellers are being told to brace for an increase in airline scams after cyber criminals targeted millions of Qantas customers.

14 October 2025

Tech News

Australia’s social media ban under-16s hard to enforce, Google says

There’s two months to go before children under 16 will lose access to most social media accounts in Australia.

13 October 2025

Healthcare

New AI tool uses mammograms to predict women’s heart health risks

The researchers said the new tool could make it easier to detect heart health problems in areas with uneven access to medical care.

17 September 2025

Nature

Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

Researchers say the single-dose vaccine could reduce koala chlamydia deaths by up to 65 per cent.

12 September 2025

New Zealand

New Zealand fugitive killed by police, children found safe

Tom Phillips had been evading authorities for nearly four years with his three children. He was killed in a shoot-out with police officers, and his children found alive.

8 September 2025

Australia

Australian woman jailed for life after serving toxic mushroom lunch

Erin Patterson handed prison sentence after killing three relatives with beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.

8 September 2025