A dairy farmer is dead and around 135,000 properties remain without power in Victoria after storms knocked down transmission towers and lines.
Widespread hot weather has led to fires in Victoria and high temperatures plus rain storms in other parts of the nation.
Vast waters to Australia's west present security, climate and conflict threats as serious as those facing the Pacific, the foreign minister told a conference.
Catastrophic fire conditions are tipped for parts of Victoria as the southern states brace for hot, windy and dry weather over coming days.
Dozens of schools have been closed in Victoria due to catastrophic fire conditions as southern states brace for hot, windy and dry weather over coming days.
Two emergency warnings have been issued for people in the Grampians in Victoria's west, with out-of-control blazes raging at Bellfield and Mt Stapylton.
As Queensland counts the cost of an already disaster-riddled summer, another cyclone threat is looming in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Thousands of households and businesses remain without power in Victoria after storms knocked down transmission towers afte a day of high temperatures.
Australia sweltered through its eighth-warmest year on record in 2023, according to a new report from the Bureau of Meteorology.
NSW has been hit with a deluge thanks to ex-tropical cyclone Kirrily, while major flood warnings remain in Queensland after the wild weather moved offshore.
After bringing heavy rainfall to Queensland's regional areas, former tropical cyclone Kirrily now has NSW firmly in its sights.
After a sweltering weekend, heatwave conditions are persisting in NSW with high temperatures, energy-zapping humidity and potentially severe thunderstorms.
Flood-hit Queensland regions are bracing for another drenching from ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily amid calls for more resilient infrastructure.
High temperatures are forecast for SA, Victoria and NSW over the weekend and experts are warning of the risk of heat-related illness.
The remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Kirrily are expected to subside but not before more severe weather, while rain-sodden areas continue flood recovery.
Queensland is set to farewell ex-tropical cyclone Kirrily after a long week of heavy rain and damaging winds as another threat looms off the coast.
Heavy rain has triggered flashbacks of a "one in 2000-year" flooding disaster for a nervous outback Queensland community as ex-cyclone Kirrily lingers.
Barely a week after a severe weather system lashed Queensland's north, yet another cyclone may soon loom off the coast.
More rain is set to impact Queensland's southeast after severe weather cut roads, closed schools and flooded homes, sparking multiple rescues.
People have been left "traumatised" by wild weather in Queensland's southeast, with more heavy rain and storms heading for the sodden region..
Heavy rain caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily continues to lash Queensland, with roads cut and some properties set to be isolated for months due to flooding.
Thousands of customers remain without power in Queensland's north where hardship grants have been offered to residents hit by Tropical Cyclone Kirrily.
An Indigenous community off Queensland's coast has called for an evacuation centre to be built as they take shelter from Cyclone Kirrily in their own homes.
Central and western Queensland are set to cop a deluge as ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily heads inland, with heavy rain and flash flooding predicted.
A cool change is sweeping through NSW, dropping temperatures by more than 10C in an hour after a coast-to-coast heatwave delivered an outback town record.
Hundreds of energy restoration crews, volunteers and low-security prisoners are pitching in to help clean up Townsville after the region was hit by a cyclone.
As heatwaves intensify over summer, Australians are being urged to check in with family and friends to avoid the worst impacts of the potentially deadly heat.
Some inland towns have sweltered through temperatures as high as 49.4C as heatwave conditions sent the mercury soaring some 6C to 12C above average.
Cyclone Kirrily has crossed the Queensland coast in Townsville, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, after strengthening into a category three system.
People evacuated from a flood-hit far north Queensland community don't look like returning any time soon due to a damaged pump at a waste treatment plant.
A cool change is not expected to sweep across Australia for days as temperatures climbed to the high 40s in vast areas of the nation.
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