(MENAFN- Asia Times) It may look like a normal sports story – Australia expanding its National Rugby League into Papua New Guinea (PNG) – but it's far more than that. This is one of the most ...

Community outcry over an Australian flag taken down at a Qld regional airport has gone viral on social media in the lead up to Anzac Day. The Fraser Coast Regional Council was in damage control on ...

Daria Kasatkina has been officially assigned the Australian flag on the WTA website. The 27-year-old recently announced in a post on her official account on the social media platform Instagram ...

The largest Australian flag was hoisted on Australia Day at a mosque in Sydney, surpassing the flag currently flying on top of the Australian Parliament House. Celebrating the national holiday at ...

Australia will provide Papua New Guinea, also referred to as PNG, 600 million Australian dollars ($382 million, or €363 million) over 10 years to support their team's entry to the NRL.

A PNG side at a trial match in Sydney in 2013 Papua New Guinea (PNG) will join Australia's national rugby league competition, after signing a deal that obligates them to shun security ties with China.

For Wade Kelly, CEO of American Football Australia which also oversees flag football, the sport hasn't quite blown up to the same extent in Australia, but it is sure to soon, and when it does ...

1954: The Flags Act 1953 becomes law, defining the official Australian flag. What’s now the Australian national flag was created soon after Federation in a competition run by the newly formed federal ...

SYDNEY — Australia urged China to avoid “coercion” in the Pacific Islands and to be “more transparent in the aid” it provides Wednesday, acknowledging a “state of permanent contest” between Beijing ...

Four-time Olympian Jessica Fox and five-time Olympian Eddie Ockenden are set to carry the Australian flag during the ceremony. Instead of the iconic parade of athletes circling around a track ...

Woolworths will put Australian flags back on shelves, just months after the supermarket giant chose not to stock Australia Day merchandise. Woolworths revealed it will make Aussie flags available ...

A locally made handheld flag will be brought back across stores later this month and sold all year round including on Australia Day. Other merchandise like Australian-themed stubby holders ...