The head of an Australian inquiry into the abuse of children in detention resigned yesterday, four days after being appointed to investigate prison video of Aboriginal boys being abused, citing his lack of support from the country’s indigenous leaders.

Australia's prime minister has ordered a sweeping investigation into claims that teenagers were abused at a juvenile detention centre in the country's north.

It’s 30 years since the release of Crocodile Dundee. To mark the anniversary, Isabel Conway visits Australia’s Northern Territory, home to Mick Dundee.

A powerful cyclone has slammed into north-eastern Australia, destroying homes, upending trees, cutting power lines and causing flash floods, while a second storm severed communications to a northern island where heavy damage was expected.

Two powerful cyclones have hit northern Australia, knocking out power to thousands, tearing roofs off houses and prompting coastal residents to flee their homes.

Stephen Fry is Gay Byrne’s guest on The Meaning of Life on RTÉ One tomorrow.

The Australian prime minister has defended his decision to honour the Alexis Tsipras with a knighthood, despite a social media backlash in which many said they thought the news was a joke.

The Australian prime minister has defended his decision to honour the Duke of Edinburgh with a knighthood, despite a social media backlash in which many said they thought the news was a joke.

Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has driven in to another storm of controversy after tweeting that he was driving with a beer close at hand.

He then went for a beer while he waited for the ambulance.

A 57-year-old man was killed by a 15ft crocodile in front of his wife while the couple fished in a northern Australian river notorious for the deadly predators.

Australian police have found human remains inside a large crocodile that is believed to have snatched a man from a boat in a popular national park.

Australian police have found human remains inside a large crocodile that is believed to have snatched a man from a boat in a popular national park.

German tourist Daniel Dudzisz was stranded by floodwaters for about 10 days in the Australian Outback.

A crocodile is suspected to have taken a 12-year-old boy after attacking his friend as they swam in a water hole in Australia.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning four wedding celebrations.

A tourist has had a lucky escape after being trapped on a remote Australian island for two weeks by a monster six-metre crocodile.

The bodies of a 26-year-old swimmer and the crocodile that killed him in a notorious Outback river at the weekend have been recovered by Australian police.

A 26-year-old birthday party goer has been snatched by a 16-foot crocodile while swimming in a notorious habitat of the dangerous reptiles, police in Australia said.

One lucky Dubliner is jetting off to Australia after making the final shortlist for one of the ‘Best Jobs in the World’.

An Irishman has made it to the finals of the Best Job in the World competition.

Three Irish people have been shortlisted from almost 350,000 entries across the globe for the “best job in the world”.

If you fancy being paid €78,000 to be a ‘chief funster’ then you had better dust off your CV, as Australia is now hiring.

Australians were bracing for what officials warned could be the worst fire danger day ever seen, as police searched for some 100 people still missing in ravaged Tasmania.

Hopes were fading for a nine-year-old boy taken by a 13ft crocodile in northern Australia, which police said was being fed by the local community.

Police are searching for a nine-year-old boy who was snatched by a crocodile as he was swimming in the mouth of a river in northern Australia.

An Irishman was yesterday charged with aggravated assault after an Australian politician was allegedly kicked in the back during a press conference about tougher laws on alcohol- fuelled violence.

A coroner opened Australia’s fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation’s history: The 1980 death of a nine-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the outback.

A coroner today opened Australia’s fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation’s history: the 1980 death of a nine-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the Australian Outback.

The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby’s cry followed, then abruptly went silent.

A senior official from the government of Australia's Northern Territory state is to make an appearance at a working abroad expo in Dublin today.

AUSTRALIA has launched a new inquiry into the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain to re-examine claims she was snatched and killed by a dingo at Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in 1980.

Australian authorities are to revisit the 30-year-old dingo baby case after an emotional plea from the woman wrongly convicted of murdering her daughter.

A 27-year-old man from the North has drowned after going swimming in a remote area of Australia.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is investigating reports that an Irish man has drowned in Australia.

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl has survived an encounter with a crocodile in northern Australia.

A five-year-old girl has survived an encounter with a crocodile in northern Australia just as a coroner began an inquest into a crocodile attack that killed an 11-year-old girl last year.

Three Afghan asylum seekers set fire to their boat in a deliberate act of sabotage, causing an explosion that killed five people, an Australian coroner ruled today.

BRITISH bookmaker William Hill has reported excellent business on its online platform among its Irish customers, as part of a trading update for the 13 weeks to the end of December.

A United Nations representative is visiting Australia to investigate complaints that a government crackdown on child abuse in Outback settlements is violating Aborigines’ human rights.

AN excited helicopter pilot crashed after swooping too low to look at a crocodile he had just spotted.

Park rangers in northern Australia have been ordered to kill any large crocodile they find after a 20-year-old man disappeared today while swimming in a crocodile-infested river.

Police fear they have found the remains of an 11-year-old girl snatched by a crocodile in an Australian swamp.