News Fun fact: Australia has 8,222 islands — and you probably never knew they existed From tiny dots to remote paradises, Australia has the eighth-most islands of any country on Earth ...

Trending Australia's climate visa: A model for sinking islands? Deutsche Welle / Jul 11, 2025, 15:21 IST Tuvalu, a vulnerable Pacific nation, faces submersion within 35 years due to climate change.

Australia’s Federal Court has ruled that the national government owes no legal duty to protect the Torres Strait Islands or their Indigenous inhabitants from the effects of climate change, in a ...

Australia’s Indigenous elders lose landmark environment case of Torres Strait Islands Indigenous elders lose climate case as judge says protecting islands is a political, not legal, responsibility ...

Sea level rise threatens freshwater sources on the islands. Due to the significant salinity of the soil, locals already have to grow plants in a different way. The new visa system signed between ...

Australia is acutely aware that it does not hold the same level of influence or capacity to project power in Southeast Asia as it does in the Pacific.

Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands.

RAROTONGA, Cook Islands - Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands. These makeshift tools ...

Mondrian Gold Coast emerges as a sculptural new anchor for Burleigh Heads, pairing surf-side glamour with global polish ...

Exotic boobies. Lava tunnels. Cocktails in the jacuzzi. It’s survival of the slickest when you’re a thousand kilometres from ...