Limits on the number of Australians who can return have spurred a growing uproar over the country’s hard-line approach on the coronavirus.
Author: LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA
Hundreds of Whales Stranded Off Tasmania
More than 450 pilot whales became stranded on the west coast of the island state in Australia. Rescuers estimate that over half of them have already died.
2 Men Working to Map World War II Bombs Are Killed by One
The aid workers had taken the device to the home they were sharing in the Solomon Islands, a country littered with unexploded ordnance.
Executives to Step Down After Rio Tinto Destroys Sacred Australian Sites
The mining giant’s chief executive was among those pushed out after shareholders revolted over the destruction of ancient Indigenous sites in Western Australia.
Crocs and Irukandji: A World Away From the Coronavirus Pandemic. Almost.
In Tropical Far North Queensland, the coronavirus pandemic can seem worlds away, until the veneer of normality crumbles.
Refugee and Author Long Detained by Australia Gets Asylum in New Zealand
Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian exile, said the news showed the vast differences between the two neighboring countries on human rights.
Australia Locks Down 300,000 in Melbourne Area After Coronavirus Surge
The authorities have locked down 300,000 people in areas around Melbourne heavily populated by immigrants, reinforcing the coronavirus’s outsized impact on disadvantaged communities.
Horses and Reporting in the Field
After weeks of lockdown, getting in my car to cover a story was both a surreal and welcome experience.
Returning to a Sense of Normalcy — or Not?
In Australia and elsewhere, we’re unsettled — not quite panic-stricken, not quite normal.
Mining Firm Plans to Destroy Indigenous Australian Sites, Despite Outcry
Just weeks after another company was criticized for razing ancient caves in the Pilbara desert, BHP said it would expand an iron ore mine on land that contains rock shelters some 15,000 years old.