Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours one Sunday in late October.

Australia Day is being celebrated all over the country this Sunday. In Sydney, traditional ceremonies took place at dawn in various locations including Bondi beach and Barangaroo. The Sydney Opera House was also lit up with traditional paintings.

A new kind of real estate war is breaking out on Australia’s famous shorelines, with a debate over the fairness of staking a claim in the country’s “town squares.”

Australia Day events begin across the nation, with flag-raising ceremonies and tens of thousands of people from more than 100 countries taking the oath of citizenship.

Thousands soaked in the sand, sunshine and waves as Sydney turned on a glorious summer day with temperatures in the high 20s.Visiting from Czechia, Marie Chybova and Milos Chyba, with son Martin Chyba and his partner Aneta Rohlikova draped themselves in Australia attire and waved the Australia,

People are set to gather around the country today to mark Australia Day, with a mix of citizenship ceremonies and other celebrations, as well as protests, to take place.

Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new study has found.

The parasitic infection presents as gastroenteritis, which usually comes with cramping abdominal pain, fever, watery diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.

Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country.

The Australian government said on Thursday it would buy A$50 million dollars ($31.36 million) of debt from the largest creditor of collapsed airline Regional Express Holdings to have more control during a voluntary administration process.

The police said they were investigating whether “overseas actors” were involved in the vandalizing of synagogues and a day care center.

Shares of Qantas rose to a record high on Thursday, a day after the Australian carrier unveiled changes to its frequent fliers programme to attract cost-conscious travellers and restore its credibility following a string of controversies.