Papua New Guinea said on Friday that Alphabet's Google will build three subsea cables, funded by Australia under a mutual defence treaty, in a key upgrade to the digital backbone of the biggest Pacific Island nation.

Australia’s gig economy and casual-work footprint has shrunk to its smallest in at least a decade, suggesting a rebalancing in the labor market and highlighting the difficulty in gauging its overall tightness.

It would be the first time a European league match is played abroad, after plans for the United States to host a La Liga game fell through.

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home,

But the growing draw of Ms Hanson’s party also relates to dysfunction and infighting inside Australia’s centre-right opposition, which is making it harder for more sophisticated diagnoses of Australia’s problems to be heard.

Love Island Australia has captured hearts (and headlines) down under, and fans are now asking the big question: will it return in 2026?

Victoria’s 22-kilometre CityLink freeway – starting near Tullamarine Airport, running under the CBD and continuing south-east to meet the Monash Freeway – tops the list as Australia’s most expensive toll road at $12.

Australia said on Friday it would not oppose a proposal by Korea's Hanwha to nearly double its stake in Australian shipbuilder Austal, but the deal will be constrained by strict conditions covering data access and security.