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How Australia’s beach cabana drama sparked a turf war
For years, a controversial invader has been gradually taking over Australia’s beloved beaches. Swallowing up the sand, blocking ocean views and turning the shore into an irksome maze, is a sea of large beach tents, called cabanas in Australia. “It’s chockers [crowded]. They’re all over the place,” Sydneysider Claire, 30, told the BBC. For her…
Australia’s housing market ‘buckling’ under widening gap between income and home values, report finds
Australia’s housing downturn is being driven by a widening gap between income, borrowing capacity and home values, but the dip is likely to be “shallow and short-lived”, a new report has found. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email “After almost two years, the housing market appears to finally be buckling to these pressures,”…
Southern Ocean winds to break stifling heatwave baking Australia’s south-east
Front dragging warm air from the Pilbara brings ‘particularly hot’ weather to SA, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania Winds from the Southern Ocean will bring relief on Monday to parts of south-eastern Australia sweltering through a three-day heatwave. A heatwave warning for South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania was issued by the Bureau of…
Australia’s crackdown on scams could cost digital platforms and banks more than $100m
Treasury has estimated how much industries including telecommunications, social media and banks will likely need to fork out Digital platforms and banks could incur more than $100m of costs to comply with new requirements to crack down on scams, according to modelling by the Treasury. Treasury’s impact analysis found that banks – especially small and…
Surfer missing off South Australia’s west coast believed to be victim of shark attack
Witnesses say 28-year-old man from Port Lincoln was attacked just after 7pm on Thursday while surfing south of Streaky Bay on the Eyre Peninsula Emergency crews are searching for the body of a man believed to be the victim of a fatal shark attack in South Australia. 28-year-old Lance Appleby from Port Lincoln was attacked…
DNA reveals secrets of Australia’s elusive marsupial mole
Nell Greenfieldboyce The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate change. That’s according to a new analysis, described in the journal Science Advances, that looked at DNA from one of these secretive…
BoM data finds 2024 was Australia’s second-hottest year on record
Rise in greenhouse gases responsible for average temperatures rising to 1.46C above average, with one climate scientist saying this is ‘the norm now’ The average temperature across the country in 2024 was 1.46C above the long-term average, calculated from 1961 to 1990, and was second behind the 1.51C record set in 2019. Sign up for…
New Year 2025 weather: Australia’s east could get stormy as wider heatwave persists
Risk of east coast showers to continue on New Year’s Day, BoM says, while parts of NSW and Queensland set to stay dry and Victoria temperatures easing Some Australians will welcome the new year with showers and storms while others will continue sweltering through heatwave conditions. The risk of severe thunderstorms will continue for parts…