Home to only around 600 people, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands sit in the middle of the Indian Ocean, between Australia and Sri Lanka Children waved eagerly beside the landing strip as our plane touched ...

The Federal Government has invested over four million Australian dollars ($2.6 million) in reducing the population.

University of Queensland researchers have completed the first comprehensive studies of recent fire history and koala populations across Australia's 9,300 islands. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

The Australian island that’s been the long-term retreat of acclaimed author C.S. Lewis’s stepson is set to go to auction in September. Little Green Island off the Queensland coast, said to have ...

On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after ...

Among the economies hit by U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs announced on Wednesday: some remote Australian islands that are home to penguins, but not people, and a tiny outpost 600 miles ...

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles explained in an interview on Tuesday that the extent of Australia’s security partnership with the Solomon Islands is unknown due to the islands’ government ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A seaplane crashed during takeoff from an Australian tourist island, killing three people including Swiss and Danish tourists and injuring three others. Only one of the seven ...