While the beach and swimming culture might feel like an intrinsic part of “Australianness”, this hasn’t always been the case.

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Aboriginals were the target of a terror attack on an Australia Day rally, police said on Thursday. More than 2,500 people had ...

Nico Antic died in a hospital after a shark bit him in the legs, the first of several recent shark attacks along Australia’s southeastern coast.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A surfer is in a "critical" condition after being bitten by a shark at North Steyne Beach in Sydney, Australia The incident is the ...

Among those killed are two women and a man, while another man was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition. It is unclear whether the shooting was the act of one person, or several, and the ...

Rabbi Leibel Lazaroff, who was seriously wounded during a terror attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, has returned home to Houston, where he was greeted by family and friends, and will continue to ...

A surfer had minor injuries from being bitten by a shark in the fourth attack off the coast of Australia’s most populous state in three days.

Many of the closed beaches were in Sydney, the site of three of the attacks. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia Dozens of beaches in eastern Australia were closed on Tuesday, after four ...

NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia — A surfer was attacked by a shark near the Point Plomer campground outside of Sydney, Australia on Tuesday, marking the fourth attack in the area in under 48 hours.

A surfer is in a "critical" condition after being bitten by a shark at North Steyne Beach in Sydney, Australia The incident is the third shark attack in just 24 hours on Sydney's Northern beaches A ...

SYDNEY, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Dozens of beaches along Australia's east coast, including in Sydney, closed on Tuesday after four shark attacks in two days, as heavy rains left waters murky and more likely ...