Fast food giant KFC has been forced to put cabbage in its burgers and wraps in Australia as the country is struggling with a shortage of lettuce.
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Several Sydney beaches, including the iconic Bondi and Bronte, were shut down on Thursday after a swimmer was killed in a shark attack, the first such fatality at the city's beaches in nearly 60 years.
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Australia has listed the koala as an endangered species across most of its east coast, after a dramatic decline in numbers.
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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will now attend the COP26 UN climate conference after weeks of initial hesitation.
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Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives.
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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of Melbourne.
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Australia's second-biggest city Melbourne will stay locked down for a second week after reporting 20 new COVID-19 cases as it struggles to stamp out infections caused by the highly infectious Delta variant of the pandemic.
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Australian officials warned Sydney residents on Friday to brace for a surge in COVID-19 cases after the country's largest city logged record infections for the second straight day despite a weeks-long lockdown to stamp out an outbreak of Delta variant
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Illegal fishing, coastal and island developments and the threat of oil and gas drilling meant the country wasn’t doing enough to preserve the site.
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Australia was set on Monday to evacuate thousands more people from suburbs in Sydney’s west, battered by the worst flooding in 60 years, with torrential rains expected to continue for another day or two.
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A young couple in Australia's New South Wales state have seen their house swept away by flash floods on what should have been their wedding day.
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Facebook has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia for journalism from its local mastheads.
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Facebook will restore news pages in Australia after the government agreed changes to a planned media code that the company said would allow it to retain greater control over what appears on its platform.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has received the coronavirus vaccine as the country prepares to start inoculations this week.
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Australia’s adventure sport enthusiasts are joining the ranks of those heading to the seaside but for a much more stomach-churning activity - rope jumping.
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Australia woke up to a new year on Friday -- and a slightly different national anthem.
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After three recent mass bleaching events, the future of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in the balance - with a senior scientist saying that it's "calling for urgent help".
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The conservation status for Australia's Great Barrier Reef has declined from "significant concern" to "critical" due to increasing impacts associated with climate change, a new report has found.
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The Australian government has agreed to purchase two more COVID-19 vaccines in development, beefing up the country’s prospective arsenal against the pandemic to 135 million doses as it aims to complete a mass inoculation programme within months.
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Austrian police have made several arrests at addresses linked to an Islamic State sympathiser who killed at least four people in a terrorist shooting and stabbing attack in Vienna on Monday night.
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Climate Change could be a factor.As oceans heat up, entire ecosystems are being destroyed and forced to adapt. Fish are migrating where they've never gone before. Species' behaviors are changing. And, as the marine world transforms, sharks are following their prey and moving closer to shores popular with humans.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals since 1995 due to warmer seas driven by climate change, a study has found.
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At least a third of 270 whales stranded off the coast of Australia's Tasmania have died and more are feared to be dying, rescuers say.
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Class action to stop planned coal mine extension filed by climate action-focused Australian teenagers
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As it turns out, Australian scientists are Marvel fans too.Scientists at the federal government agency CSIRO gave scientific names to 165 new species this year -- and picked five flies to name after the world's favorite superheroes and villains within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced during Australia's devastating bushfires of the past year, scientists say.
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People who deliberately spit, sneeze or cough on frontline workers will be fined up to $13,000, the Queensland Government has announced.
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The wind blows so consistently strong around Greenough, Western Australia, that unprotected trees grow horizontally.
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