Australian consumer prices rose at the slowest pace in almost four years in the December quarter, while a pullback in housing costs helped cool core inflation and open the door to a cut in interest rates as early as next month.

Australia Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Wednesday urged Australians to be cautious when using Chinese AI model DeepSeek, the latest government to warn over its use.

Israel urged Australia to do more to halt an "epidemic of antisemitism" in the country as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government was doing all it could to combat attacks that he says include domestic terrorism.

Australia's biggest four banks are all predicting the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut the official cash rate from the current 4.35 per cent at its February meeting. ANZ expects the RBA will make two cash rate cuts in a potential cutting cycle, while CBA and Westpac predict four and NAB predicts five.

The golfing great hinted that he was called upon once again to act as a bridge between the Australian government and Donald Trump.

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.

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of racism and oppression.

Australia looks to put a seal on a dominant women's Ashes series on the first day of a historic day-night Test at the MCG. Follow live.

MELBOURNE, - A few miles from the Melbourne Cricket Ground where Australia and England started the women's Ashes test on Thursday, a group of Afghan refugee cricketers played their first match as a team since fleeing Taliban rule.

Sell-side adviser Macquarie Capital has done some soul-searching over the Christmas break, fronting up to interested parties with a new pitch.