Canberra, May 26 (IANS) Australia’s energy regulator said that electricity prices will fall for most households and small businesses on regulated default plans from July 1, reflecting easing costs across the power sector.The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) said its final Default Market Offer (DMO) for 2026-27 would cut residential electricity prices by between 3.4 per cent and 5 per cent in the state of New South Wales and by 7.2 per cent in the southeast state of Queensland, while the state o…
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Canberra, May 21 (IANS) The Australian government is delivering a 7.2-million-Australian-dollar (about 5.14 million US dollars) package to respond to the biggest diphtheria outbreak since national record-keeping began, the country’s Health Minister, Mark Butler, said on Thursday.The National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System reports 230 diphtheria cases this year, and around 60 per cent of the cases in this outbreak are in the Northern Territory, with further outbreaks in Western Australia,…
Canberra, May 19 (IANS) A diphtheria outbreak in Australia’s Northern Territory has become one of the country’s largest in decades and is spreading into the neighbouring states of Queensland and South Australia, health authorities said on Tuesday.A total of 133 cases have been recorded in the Northern Territory since the outbreak began, alongside six cases in South Australia and up to five in Queensland, according to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.Health Minister Mark Butle…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg has admitted that the board failed to clearly communicate its vision for privatising the Big Bash League (BBL), as disagreements among state associations over the competition’s future structure persist.The discussion about private investment in the BBL has grown more heated following New South Wales and Queensland’s opposition to CA’s initial proposal to sell franchise stakes to outside investors. South Australia has also shown caut…
Canberra, April 28 (IANS) Humankind must be “at its best” to protect the iconic Great Barrier Reef from the threats posed by climate change, invasive species and fishing activities, urged Australia’s Minister for the Environment and Water on Tuesday. In a speech to a Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF) event, Murray Watt said that it would be “gross negligence” for Australia to fail to protect the reef, describing it as the country’s biggest natural asset.”The challenges may be immense. But the…
Sydney, April 20 (IANS) A 41-year-old Australian man has been charged by police over an alleged attempt to import 200 kg of cocaine into the country by sea. A joint statement on Monday from federal law enforcement agencies and police in the east coast states of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland said that the man was arrested on Thursday after officers located the cocaine on board an intercepted catamaran.Police said that the vessel was intercepted by an organised crime task force investigatin…
Sydney, April 13 (IANS) Two people have died, and eight more have been hospitalised, including five with life-threatening injuries, after three major traffic collisions within 24 hours in the Australian state of Queensland.The Queensland Police Service (QPS) said in a statement that two people, who have not been identified, were killed when a vehicle lost control and crashed on a highway near the small town of Cryna, 60 km south of Brisbane, around 5:40 p.m. local time on Sunday.Earlier, emergen…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Lucy Hamilton described her journey to a maiden central contract as a ‘rollercoaster,’ capping a whirlwind rise that has transformed her from a domestic hopeful into an all-format international in less than a year.Only months ago, the 19-year-old pacer was mapping out a routine domestic season featuring appearances for Queensland and Brisbane Heat. Since then, she has broken into Australia’s senior setup across all three formats, secured her first Cricket Australi…
Sydney, March 26 (IANS) Authorities have warned that Tropical Cyclone Narelle will hit Australia’s northwest coast as a severe Category 4 storm after sweeping across the country.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said in an update at 5 a.m. Australian Western Standard Time on Thursday (2100 GMT on Wednesday), Tropical Cyclone Narelle was 240 km off the north coast of Western Australia (WA) and steadily intensifying.It said that the cyclone was at Category 3 strength as of Thursday morning and expec…
Sydney, March 24 (IANS) Children younger than 16 will be banned from riding electric mobility devices in the Australian state of Queensland under new safety laws announced on Tuesday.Queensland’s state government said on Tuesday that it has accepted, or accepted in principle, all 28 recommendations made by a parliamentary inquiry into e-mobility safety, including the under-16 ban.Brent Mickelberg, Queensland’s minister for transport, said in a statement that the government will introduce nation-…