Talk of the Town

Australia

Latest news & developments
PEERING INTO THE PAST: The Square Kilometer Array radio telescope will be located on sites in Australia and South Africa Picture: SKAO

World’s largest radio telescope to be built after almost 30 years of planning

Tereza Pultarova – Senior Writer for space.com Construction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) observatory, which is set to become the largest radio telescope ever built, will finally commence after nearly 30 years of preparations. Work…

A baby koala is seen among decorations while celebrating its first Christmas at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby, Australia, December 15, 2020, in this picture obtained from social media.Image: THE AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PARK
Video

Christmas comes early for baby animals at Australian Reptile Park

Christmas has come early for some animals celebrating their first Yuletide holiday at the Australian Reptile Park. In footage released on Wednesday, some of the park’s youngest residents, including a koala joey named Pipsqueak, were seen…

Dead pilot whales at Macquarie Harbour on September 24 2020 in Strahan, Australia. Rescuers are working to save hundreds of stranded whales on Tasmania’s west coast. Efforts to save some 270 pilot whales beached on a sandbar started on Monday September 21.Image: GETTY IMAGES/ STEVE BELL

Australia plans to dispose of hundreds of whale carcasses

Australian officials were planning the grim task of disposing of almost 400 whale carcasses on Thursday as hopes faded there would be many more survivors of one of the world’s biggest mass strandings of the mammals. Rescuers had managed…

Efforts to save whales stranded on a sandbar are under way at Macquarie Harbour, near Strahan, Tasmania, Australia.Image: AAP/ THE ADVOCATE POOL, BRODIE WEEDING/ REUTERS
Video

Oz activists work to save stranded whales

Rescuers set free around 25 whales on Tuesday that were marooned on a sandbar off the remote west coast of Tasmania in one of Australia’s worst beaching events, and hope to save more in coming days. Government scientists said about 90 of…

Australian policymakers are once looking to car manufacturing to generate some growth as they scramble to drive the economy through the coronavirus.Image: REUTERS

Australia turns to idle factories to pull it out of slump

In 2017, the last car Australia built rolled out of a General Motors’ plant in the city of Adelaide, ending seven decades of local automotive history and the belief that the country’s factories could ever compete globally. Three years…

Video

WATCH | Australia’s devastating bushfires: what we know so far

Australia has a dry season every year that usually results in forest fires but the current bush blaze that started at the end of 2019 has escalated to a national crisis. The fire has spread across all six of Australia’s states‚ killing 25…

HOWZAT! Andile Phehlukwayo picked up three of Australia’s middle order, Australia v South Africa, 1st ODI, Perth, November 4, 2018 Picture: GETTY IMAGES

Ghost of the last series hangs over SA v Australia down under

So much can happen in a year that what took place in March can be forgotten in November. When it comes to South Africa-Australia cricket engagements‚ that’s not the case‚ especially with the sides meeting on Sunday in Perth for the first…

Faf du Plessis.Image: Bertram Malgas/Gallo Images/Getty Images

SA favoured to beat world cricket’s worst ODI team of 2018: Australia

If ever there was a time to take on Australia in a one-day series‚ that time is now. There would have been plenty of time on South Africa’s long journey eastward for three ODIs and a T20 next month for Faf du Plessis to tell his squad…

Pieter-Steph du Toit during the 2018 Rugby International, South Africa Training Session at Springbok Experience at Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town on 19 June 2018. Image: ©Chris Ricco/BackpagePix

‘The All Blacks are going to come with everything they have got‚’ says Pieter-Steph du Toit

Defence and physicality are key to the Springbok power game and both elements played their part in the team’s rousing victory over Australia in Port Elizabeth‚ Bok loose forward Pieter-Steph du Toit said. Thanks to his towering display‚…