A billion-dollar bet on nickel mining gave many New Caledonians hopes of economic prosperity and political independence. But ...

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Travel across Australia by rail on a journey of continental proportions — from Sydney to Perth via outback ghost towns, drag ...

The new Snowies Alpine Walk takes hiking to even greater heights, and there’s one peak that everyone wants on their hiking ...

New Caledonia had one of the largest majority Indigenous owned mines in the world. But has now been paralysed by Indonesian nickel. Once a big part of redressing inequalities between the European and ...

Australia's opposition Liberal Party abandoned on Monday a plan to force government workers to return to the office full-time ...

A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes in their behaviour.

Military leaders are prizing sensors over interceptors in what will be Australia’s future network of weapons for defending ...

Locals fear the town will be abandoned. This much-loved town that ... which is still a far cry from the cost of most homes in Australia. The mayor said that the latest inventory will be made ...

The CBD largely remains a ghost town, as a conga line of condemned buildings ... Despite significant aid coming from Australia, China, New Zealand and elsewhere, Vanuatu lacks the resources ...