At AusNewsLanka, we aim to keep the Australian community informed with timely updates. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen to their lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the continued growth of renewable energy and a decline in transport emissions. New national emissions data shows Australia’s emissions dropped by 2.1 per cent in the year to December 2025. The reduction was largely due to wind, solar and battery storage replacing coal and gas-fired

This is a developing story brought to you by Aus News Lanka, your trusted source for news for Sri Lankans in Australia and beyond. රාජ්‍ය සේවය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ඩිජිටල්කරණය කිරීමෙන් සහ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ තාක්ෂණික කුසලතා වැඩි දියුණු කිරීමෙන් රට ඩිජිටල් ආර්ථිකයක් බවට පරිවර්තනය කිරීම අරමුණු කරගත් ජාතික වැඩසටහනක් යටතේ බලධාරීන් ප්‍රධාන පියවර ආරම්භ කර ඇත. ඩිජිටල් ආර්ථික නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය එරංග වීරරත්න සහ පළාත් සභා සහ පළාත් පාලන නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය රුවන් සෙනරත් යන මහත්වරුන්ගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්

At AusNewsLanka, we aim to keep the Australian community informed with timely updates. Australians can expect chilly nights but generally pleasant daytime weather over the 2026 King’s Birthday long weekend, thanks to a large high-pressure system bringing mostly clear skies across much of the country. Most states and territories will enjoy the public holiday on Monday, with Queensland and Western Australia being the exceptions. Melbourne is set for a welcome break from this we

At AusNewsLanka, we aim to keep the Australian community informed with timely updates. Australian shoppers continue to feel the impact of rising grocery prices, with several everyday essentials costing significantly more than they did just four years ago. Items such as olive oil, eggs, chocolate, coffee, dairy products and some meats have seen some of the largest increases, driven by global supply shortages, extreme weather events, disease outbreaks and higher transport and p

This is a developing story brought to you by Aus News Lanka, your trusted source for news for Sri Lankans in Australia and beyond. Sri Lanka has taken a major step towards joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free trade agreement, according to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath. Speaking at the Sri Lanka High Commission in Canberra following his official visit to Australia and New Zealand, the

At AusNewsLanka, we aim to keep the Australian community informed with timely updates. Australia’s economy continued to grow in the March quarter, but at a slower pace than expected, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.3 per cent during the quarter and was 2.5 per cent higher than a year earlier. However, growth slowed from the previous quarter, while productivity recorded its largest decline in

At AusNewsLanka, we aim to keep the Australian community informed with timely updates. Australians have shifted their views on some of the country’s biggest brands, with Optus now ranked as the nation’s least-trusted brand in the latest Roy Morgan survey. The telecommunications giant moved to the bottom of the trust rankings following ongoing concerns, including a major network outage in 2025. Meta (Facebook) and Temu followed as the second and third least-trusted brands. Woo

This is a developing story brought to you by Aus News Lanka, your trusted source for news for Sri Lankans in Australia and beyond. මැයි මාසයේදී සංචාරකයින් 145,745 ක් මෙරටට පැමිණ ඇති බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචාරක සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියේ (SLTDA) දත්ත පෙන්වා දෙයි. සංචාරක හා සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයට බලපා ඇති මැද පෙරදිග ගැටුම් මධ්‍යයේ වුවද මෙය සිදු වේ. SLTDA විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද දත්ත වලට අනුව, ඉන්දියාවෙන් සංචාරකයින් 60,342 ක් පැමිණ ඇති අතර එය 41.0% කි. තවද, මැයි මාසයේදී එක්සත් රාජධානියෙන් 9,248 ක්, චීන

At AusNewsLanka, we aim to keep the Australian community informed with timely updates. Australia’s population has officially surpassed 28 million, reaching the milestone on Tuesday according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ population clock. The figure is calculated in real time using estimates of births, deaths and overseas migration, with the population increasing by roughly one person every 75 seconds. Western Australia recorded the strongest population growth in th

At AusNewsLanka, we aim to keep the Australian community informed with timely updates. Several leading Australian universities have dropped in the latest global university rankings, adding further pressure to the country’s higher education sector. Out of 39 Australian universities assessed by the Centre for World University Rankings, 21 recorded lower positions this year. The University of Sydney slipped from 94th to 100th place, while the Australian National University dropp