Data Centres Australia says members struggle with community consultation timing after AI firms paused or abandoned projects, including a proposed 1200-megawatt centre at Tungkillo in South Australia.
A South Australian coronial inquest into the 2022 drowning of nine-year-old Cyrus John Buck at the Waikerie Swimming Pool was adjourned to 9 December 2026 after new evidence, including two Triple Zero call recordings, emerged.
ANZ CEO Nuno Matos told a parliamentary inquiry on 12 November 2026 that record equity markets alongside rising interest rates create a 'dangerous situation' for the world, though he does not expect an Australian recession.
Several longstanding disability advocacy organisations were told by Australia's Department of Health they will not be part of a new funding model replacing the existing program from the end of November 2026, ABC News reported.
Researchers formally mapped a 1.56km rose coral colony off Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a formation local divers had seen in parts for decades, the ABC reported on November 11, 2026.
Nurse and diabetes educator Helen Lamech, who has worked in the Northern Territory for more than 30 years, was named the territory's 2027 Australian of the Year at a Darwin ceremony, ABC News reported on 10 November 2026.
The gold Christmas beetle took 39.3 per cent of 44,472 votes in the third ABC Australian Insect of the Year poll, with the tortoise-shelled ladybird second at 24.9 per cent.
Michael Betteridge and Hugh Page survived after their firefighting helicopter nosedived into the Barito River in South Kalimantan; an Indonesian navigator died, and authorities are investigating the cause.
Reported November 8, 2026: as Australia prepared to help lead COP31 negotiations, government data estimated emissions from its coal and gas exports, once burnt overseas, at almost 1,200 million tonnes for 2025-26, up from 681 million tonnes in 2005.
A NSW program reported on 8 November 2026 was to bring 120 landholders and public land managers together across 600,000 hectares near Walgett to reduce feral pigs, which are estimated to cost Australian agriculture more than $190 million a year.
The UK and Australia have issued a joint statement on addressing online violence against parliamentarians across the Commonwealth, pledging to hold a first forum in 2027 with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians.
The UK Prime Minister met Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Antigua ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, discussing AUKUS, the Middle East, Ukraine, youth opportunities and migration, according to a Downing Street statement published 3 November 2026.
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