Sydney, May 20 (IANS) A man has died in hospital and four other men are in serious condition following an alleged shooting in southwest Sydney, police said on early Wednesday.Police were called to Liverpool Hospital at about 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, following reports two men — both believed to be aged in their 20s — had presented with multiple wounds, police in the Australian state of New South Wales said in a statement.One of the men underwent treatment but died a short time later. The other man…
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Melbourne, May 19 (IANS) More than 57 billion Australian dollars (about $40.84 billion) worth of infrastructure in the Australian state of Victoria is at risk from climate-related extreme weather, said a report released Tuesday.The amount of infrastructure at risk is projected to rise by nearly 25 per cent over the next four decades, said the report by Infrastructure Victoria, the Australian state’s independent infrastructure adviser.The report examined 318 billion Australian dollars’ worth of a…
Canberra, March 27 (IANS) Australia’s fuel supply looks good in the short term, but it will get more difficult in the coming months, said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday.Addressing a press conference in Parliament House in Canberra over the escalating fuel crisis facing the country, Albanese said the government is “working around the clock” to “have the strongest possible plan,” and get ready and over-prepared for what may come.Albanese noted his “positive” engagements with …
Sydney, March 7 (IANS) Five people were rescued, and patients have been evacuated from a hospital amid major flooding in the Australian state of Queensland and the neighbouring Northern Territory (NT).Flood warnings were in place for rivers and catchments across most of Queensland as of Saturday morning due to heavy rainfall from a slow-moving tropical storm that made landfall on the state’s northeast coast on Friday afternoon local time.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said the tropical low was …
Melbourne, March 2 (IANS) Organisers of the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix said that the season-opening race will go ahead as planned on Sunday despite travel disruptions caused by the conflict in the Middle East.Travis Auld, chief executive officer of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, said at a press conference in Melbourne that the disruption for officials, team members and drivers is not expected to affect the first race weekend of the season, reports Xinhua.Auld said mass flight cancel…
Sydney, Jan 1 (IANS) Authorities on Thursday morning issued an emergency warning for a life-threatening bushfire burning near the Perth Airport in Western Australia (WA).A warning issued shortly before 6 a.m. local time by the WA Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) said that residents in the Kalamunda region, 15 km east of central Perth and 5 km from the city’s international airport, should leave immediately.The DFES said that an out-of-control bushfire moving in a northerly directi…
Sydney, Dec 24 (IANS) The parliament of Australia’s state of New South Wales (NSW) had passed tough new gun and protest laws in response to the fatal mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday.ABC said that the bill, which packaged gun reforms with a ban on protests for up to three months, passed 18 votes to eight just before 3 a.m. local time on Wednesday and included a key amendment on tightening firearms laws for people with susp…