Jane Wardell

U.S., EU override Australia to put climate change on G20 agenda

August 18, 2019 at 11:14 p.m.

The G20 communique will include a significant passage on climate change, EU officials said on Sunday, as the United States and other heavyweight nations override host Australia's attempts to keep...

Climate change signals the end of Australian shiraz as we know it

May 14, 2019 at 6:15 a.m.

HOBART Tasmania (Reuters) - Young Australian vintner Nick Glaetzer's winemaking-steeped family thought he was crazy when he abandoned the Barossa Valley - the hot, dry region that is home to...

Australia ruling could leave Sri Lankan asylum seekers at sea

August 25, 2021 at 6:11 a.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The fate of a boatload of Tamil asylum seekers could be undecided for weeks as Australia's High Court considers a legal challenge to Australia's attempts to hand...

Japan, Australia sign economic partnership pact

August 25, 2021 at 6:17 a.m.

CANBERRA/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian counterpart Tony Abbott on Tuesday signed an economic partnership pact as well as an agreement on military equipment and technology...

Australia’s Tinkler sells horse stud in coal comeback bid

May 14, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nathan Tinkler, a former pit electrician who became Australia's youngest billionaire by riding the country's mining boom before losing it all, is narrowing his...

Australia says signals detected consistent with missing Malaysian plane

August 25, 2021 at 3:44 a.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian officials said on Monday signals picked up by a black box detector attached to an Australian ship searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the...

Australia in a fog over ban on branded cigarettes

August 25, 2021 at 3:40 a.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than a year after Australia became the first country to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes, there is little hard evidence to prove the trailblazing move is...

Australia in a fog over ban on branded cigarettes

May 14, 2019 at 5:50 a.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than a year after Australia became the first country to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes, there is little hard evidence to prove the trailblazing move is...

At edge of Malaysia Airlines search, questions of security and diplomacy

August 25, 2021 at 3:30 a.m.

PERTH/SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - The pot-bellied silhouette of a Chinese Il-76 military transport plane appeared in the sky over Perth International Airport just as the U.S. naval officer was explaining...

Prodigal son returns, Lachlan Murdoch back in News Corp

September 9, 2018 at 6:35 a.m.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Lachlan Murdoch's appointment to senior positions within his father Rupert Murdoch's media empire marks the return of the prodigal son. Nearly a decade after walking away from...

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