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Australian ⁠lawmaker Helen Haines was in a critical condition on Monday after being deliberately struck by a ‌car outside her office in Wangaratta, northeast of Melbourne, police and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “All of our thoughts are with Helen, ⁠her family, her friends, her team, and ‌her community at this extremely difficult time. We are praying ‌for her full recovery,” Albanese told ⁠a news ⁠conference. Victoria Police said a 43-year-old suspect had ‌been arrested after Haines was...

EQT AB has agreed to buy Australia’s Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd. through a unit, in a deal that values the firm at about A$9.3 billion ($6.5 billion) and makes it the latest local company to enter private hands after a period of share underperformance.

The number of homes auctioned in Australia dropped over the past week as interest rates at a 15-year high weigh on activity in the housing market.

O surfe brasileiro avançou às quartas de final na etapa Supertubos Peniche (Portugal) do circuito mundial de surfe com o atual campeão e líder da temporada Yago Dora, Ítalo Ferreira (3º no ranking) e Gabriel Medina (5º). A etapa é a última antes da decisão do título da temporada em Pipeline, no Havaí, em dezembro. Na disputa feminina, Luana Silva foi eliminada na estreia no primeiro round pela havaiana Bettylou Sakura. As quartas de final estão previstas para este sábado (17), a partir das 5h (horário de Brasília).   Um dos pontos altos do primeiro dia de competição em Peniche foi a disputa de oitavas de final protagonizada pelos campeões mundiais Gabriel Medina (2014, 2018 e 20121) e Filipe Toledo (2022 e 2023). Antes de enfrentar Medina, Filipinho vencera a estreia contra o australiano Liam O’Brien com somatório de 14,43 contra 12,93 do adversário. Notícias relacionadas:Morre Chiaki Ishii, primeiro medalhista olímpico do judô brasileiro .Fifa pune Espanha por cantos islamofóbicos em amistoso contra Egito.Estreante, Cruzeiro será 15º brasileiro na Libertadores Feminina.A bateria valendo vaga nas quartas teve clima de revanche, já que Medina caíra duas vezes para Toledo em oitavas anteriores este ano. Mas hoje Medina, que estreou direto nas oitavas, dominou a disputa desde o início e carimbou a classificação com notas 7,00 e 5,00 contra 1,33 e 0,97 de Fipinho.    Medina brilhou ao surfar dois tubos, totalizou 12,00 e superou o compatriota Filipinho que somou apens 2,30 - Manel Geada/WSL/direitos reservados Na sequência, o potiguar Ítalo Ferreira sobrou contra o australiano Jack Robinson. Campeão mundial (2019) e olímpico (Tóquio 2021), Ítalo conseguiu surfar em dois tubos -  totalizou 15,00 contra 10,43 de Robinson, assegurando presença nas quartas. O último brasileiro a avançar foi o líder da temporada, o catarinense Yago Dora que travou uma batalha acirrada contra Connor O'Leary, representante do Japão. O adversário comandava a bateria com notas 5,17 e 6,50 enquanto o brasileiro tinha somente notas 4,00 e 0,83. No meio da bateria, o brasileiro desceu boas ondas: na primeira 7,83 e depois levou nota 5,83, Com somatório 13,66, Dora virou o placar e segue firme na disputa do bicampeonato consecutivo. O rival direto de Yago Doral pelo título da temporada, o italiano Leonardo Fioravanti, vice-líder do ranking, deu adeus a Peniche ao ser derrotado nas oitavas pelo australiano Morgan Cibilic. Fechando as oitavas, o paulista Miguel Pupo perdeu de virada para o havaiano Seth Moniz nos segundo finais da bateria. Pupo dominava a disputa com notas 6,33 e 6,27. O adversário somava apenas 6,87, mas conseguiu cravar 5,93 ao surfar um tubo curto próximo ao fim, carimbando a classificação. Outros dois brasileiros deram adeus a etapa de Peniche. Surfista de Saquarema (RJ), João Chianca (somatório de apenas 5,10), foi superado na estreia no primeiro round contra o australiano Jack Robison (13,33), que depois seria eliminado por Ítalo Ferreira. Irmão mais novo de Miguel Pupo, também parou no primeiro round: somou 8,27 contra 13,00 do português Frederico Morais.

Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.

Demand at an Australian three-year bond auction surged to the highest since 2018 as traders bet the nation’s central bank is nearing the end if its interest-rate hike cycle.

Australia’s securities regulator temporarily barred Fidante Partners Ltd. from offering units in a credit fund, extending a clampdown on private credit investments amid concerns over risks to investors.

The flight from Italy to Australia was cancelled after passengers on the plane's previous journey complained of bug bites.

A Melbourne man whose Islamic community centre has been linked by prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates to the co-pilot who allegedly attacked the captain of a Flydubai jet has hit out at “false accusations”. The Omani co-pilot, now in custody in the UAE, had drawn inspiration from al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 suicide attacks, and carried out his attempt “with the aim of causing the greatest possible loss of life”, according to the Emirati prosecutor’s findings published by state media last...

The United Arab Emirates' attorney-general also alleges the co-pilot was trying to crash the plane into Tel Aviv's airport.

Australia has no need to buy fuel from Russia and said that purchases from there would remain barred so that the country did not benefit from the invasion of Ukraine. “We don’t need or want Russian fuel in Australia,” Chris Bowen, Australia’s minister for climate change and energy, said on Saturday at a press conference in western Sydney. “We do not want Vladimir Putin to benefit from this war in the Middle East. What the United States does is a matter for them, but we won’t be changing our...

Australia has no need to buy fuel from Russia and said that purchases from there will remain barred so that the country doesn’t benefit from the invasion of Ukraine.

Australia's central bank raised its cash rate to 4.60% as inflation hit 4.0%, a move that supports the AUD but pressures housing and equities. The post Why Australia’s Rate Hike Matters for US Investors appeared first on The Rio Times.

Australia is set to unveil the final version of a controversial plan to force liquefied natural gas producers to reserve as much as a fifth of their output for local buyers.

The expected postponement of Nvidia Corp.-backed data center company Firmus Grid Ltd.’s Australian IPO is an ominous sign for other proposed listings, coming after a string of disappointing debuts for artificial intelligence infrastructure firms.

Australia may have vast tracts of land and political will to support the growth of the artificial intelligence industry, but the development of data centres to power the technology is proving more challenging. Last month, property developer Goodman Group withdrew its application for a 90-megawatt data centre in Lane Cove, on Sydney’s lower north shore, after months of opposition from residents about the potential impact on their electricity and water supplies, noise pollution and other...

The Catholic Church in Australia has been marred by abuse allegations in recent years.

BHP Group will sell its Kambalda nickel concentrator plant and associated land in Western Australia to Gold Fields Ltd. for an undisclosed price.

Protests have been gripping France with students demanding better learning conditions and more equal opportunities. The education ministry is among the few that have been granted an increase in next year's draft budgets, but critics say it still doesn't catch up with inflation.  We take a closer look.  Plus, OpenAI has apologised to Australia over its handling of government website hacks by a rogue AI agent in June. 

Japan ⁠and Australia ⁠have agreed to establish an ⁠annual finance ministers’ dialogue aimed at deepening cooperation in financial and economic policy, as well as strengthening bilateral collaboration on economic security. Under ‌a memorandum of understanding signed on Monday that is effective for five years, the two countries’ finance ministers will meet regularly to promote cooperation across a broad range of economic themes. “Recognising ⁠that Japan and Australia’s economic and security...

The FlyDubai pilot accused of attempting a murder-suicide mission on an Israel-bound flight didn’t complete his university studies in Australia.

Australian police and intelligence join the list of those probing the incident.

New South Wales police say the driver, an 18-year-old rugby league fan, has been arrested.

Australia’s benchmark bond yield looks poised to fall below its US counterpart for the first time in over a year, as expectations for monetary policy in the two economies diverge.

The rivals have been grouped together again, along with holders Australia, as ICC announces schedule for the tournament.

The sudden influx of Bogong moths has caused a stir in cities like Sydney and Canberra, with people filming them infiltrating their homes and cars.

Ross Surace is preparing to raise the price of a coffee by 50 Australian cents and a panini by A$1 (US$0.70) when the country bans credit card surcharge fees starting on Thursday. The co-owner of Lennox Street Deli in Melbourne’s Moonee Ponds neighbourhood said bank-imposed card fees already cost his business more than A$1,000 (US$690) a week, even after the cafe recoups some of the expense by adding a 1.9 per cent surcharge to customers’ card payments. Once that option disappears, Surace...

Australia’s central bank has downplayed concerns about the recent collapse of a large property developer, arguing that the company and its lenders in the private credit sector do not represent a system-wide financial stability risk.

Australia’s Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. will acquire Meteoric Resources Ltd. in an all-share deal worth about A$968 million ($672 million), giving it access to a new deposit of the critical minerals in Brazil.

For the past three decades, Australia’s property market has experienced a prolonged boom, with prices rising sharply despite periodic downturns. In the past seven years alone, national house prices have risen by roughly 70%, resulting in one of the most expensive property markets in the developed world.