If implemented, it would be the second tweak in six months as the government casts a wide net in its search for ways to cut ...

A 600-kilometre stretch of the North Queensland coastline is on cyclone watch, with a wild weather system tipped to make ...

Nature has been giving us dire warnings that climate change could turn breadbaskets into dustbowls worldwide, hitting wheat ...

The Bureau of Meteorology advises a trough over southern New South Wales is generating slow moving thunderstorms with localised heavy falls about southern and central parts of the state. Severe ...

Dry salt lakes in South Australia are awash with water and it's not just Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, with lakes like Lake Torrens ...

Queenslanders have been warned to prepare for a possible tropical cyclone, and some areas are set to see 100mm of rain in the ...

Sunny, clear skies are expected in both states, with a light south-westerly breeze. Hobart will finally get to enjoy some ...

Australia faces food production risks with temperature extremes and floods impacting crops. Protected cropping has been used ...

Crude oil leaps overnight; impact trickles through commodities. Many want rain in Europe and on the east coasts of US and ...

One of four tropical lows hanging over Australia’s north threatens to send “significant” rainfall to Queensland at the end of ...

More than 300 people died when Tropical Cyclone Mahina slammed into the north Queensland coast on 4 March 1899.

Australians have been smashed with 10 days of record breaking rain, while heavy falls continue to batter the nation’s north ...