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More than six million people in Victoria, Australia, will enter into a snap lockdown for five days in response to a coronavirus outbreak at a quarantine hotel. The order came as the Australian Open was being held in Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, but the tournament will carry on — without spectators — the authorities said on Friday. Victorians will be allowed […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Ever since we opened a Sydney bureau in 2017, readers of The New York Times in Australia have been asking for a print edition — something they can hold and touch, something to put on their coffee tables or take to a […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. It’s the first port of call for any random question that pops into our heads. The repository of basically all knowledge on the internet. The search engine so ubiquitous it’s a verb. And last week, Australians were forced to consider a future […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. It’s the first port of call for any random question that pops into our heads. The repository of basically all knowledge on the internet. The search engine so ubiquitous it’s a verb. And last week, Australians were forced to consider a future […]
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia has conferred one of its highest civilian honors upon former prime ministers, elite athletes, philanthropists, actors and academics for “the highest degree in service to Australia or humanity at large.” But when news broke on Friday that the public service award would be handed next week to the tennis legend Margaret Court, whose sporting legacy has […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. January 2021 is the end of an era. Yes, of course, for the United States and all that, but also for something far less contentious: The “Wild” taxidermy exhibit at the Melbourne Museum. I’ll never forget my first experience with the taxidermy […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. January 2021 is the end of an era. Yes, of course, for the United States and all that, but also for something far less contentious: The “Wild” taxidermy exhibit at the Melbourne Museum. I’ll never forget my first experience with the taxidermy […]
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MELBOURNE, Australia — The racing pigeon seemed to have traveled far, from Oregon, when it showed up weak and hungry in a backyard in a Melbourne suburb. Someone decided to name it Joe, after President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. But Australian officials, fearing the spread of germs from a foreign bird, would not bend the rules: The bird must die. […]
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MELBOURNE, Australia — When they’re hungry, they’ll let you know by coming up to you and looking beseechingly at you and the container of food. If that doesn’t work, they’ll sniff and paw at your leg. No, we’re not talking about dogs. We’re talking about kangaroos. Researchers at the University of Roehampton in Britain and the University of Sydney in […]
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Australia on Friday canceled a roughly $750 million plan for a large order of a locally developed coronavirus vaccine after the inoculation produced false positive test results for H.I.V. in some volunteers participating in a trial study. Of the dozens of coronavirus vaccines being tested worldwide, the Australian one was the first to be abandoned. While its developers said the […]
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