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Sep 18 2025 // Australia has detected the larvae of khapra beetles in imported nappies sold in supermarkets nationwide, the agriculture ministry said, raising concerns the pest could infest grain storages and disrupt agricultural...
May 26 2025 // Australia has drafted in emergency service teams from across the nation to help with clean-up operations after devastating floods in the eastern state of New South Wales.Almost 200 additional personnel will take up...
Mar 5 2025 // Millions of Australians are bracing for a direct hit from a tropical cyclone heading toward the nation’s third-biggest city, with the storm already forcing evacuations and closing ports and schools throughout...
May 1 2025 // The regulatory landscape in the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly evolving, influencing insurers’ risk management and capital adequacy. Australia and Malaysia are two examples of markets where recent regulatory...
Mar 4 2025 // A large swathe of Australia’s east coast is preparing for strong winds and life-threatening flooding from a tropical cyclone that’s forecast to make landfall north of the nation’s third-largest...
Feb 13 2025 // Australia’s iron ore hub is bracing for the strongest cyclone to hit the region since at least 2007, threatening port facilities and big mines operated by companies including Rio Tinto Group and BHP Group.Severe...
Feb 14 2025 // Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Australia’s west coast on Friday, the weather bureau said, lashing the world’s largest iron ore hub with heavy rain and wind gusts up to 290 kph (180 mph).The eye of the...
Mar 31 2025 // MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global re/insurer, announced the opening of an Australian branch office in Sydney, subject to Lloyd’s approval.Leading the branch office is Matt Botfield who has been named head of...
Apr 1 2025 // Australia’s remote outback in western Queensland has been swamped by flooding after being lashed with a year’s worth of rainfall in a week, sweeping away tens of thousands of livestock.Up to 500 millimeters...
Mar 17 2025 // Cyclone Alfred will cost Australia’s March 25 budget at least A$1.2 billion [US$759 million], hit growth and put pressure on inflation, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says.In a Tuesday speech previewing the budget, Chalmers...
Jul 2 2025 // Howden Japan Acquires Majority Stake in Retail Broker HolosHowden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, announced it has acquired a majority stake (68.3%) in Holos Holdings Co. Ltd., a leading retail insurance...
Feb 12 2025 // Tropical Cyclone Zelia has strengthened off Western Australia and is expected to cross the coast on Friday near the nation’s major iron ore export hub, bringing heavy rain and damaging wind gusts.Zelia is forecast to...
Aug 6 2025 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced the acquisition of Australia-based MACK Insurance Services.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. MACK Insurance Services is a...
Mar 5 2025 // Australia’s largest property and casualty (P/C) insurers should be well placed to manage claims stemming from tropical cyclone Alfred, which could top A$2billion (US$1.3 billion), according to a report published by...
Feb 26 2025 // Last week the Federal Court fined Australia’s biggest superannuation company, AustralianSuper, A$27 million for overcharging customers.The company had breached its legal obligations under the Superannuation Industry...
Apr 15 2025 // Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday Clorox’s local unit had been fined A$8.25 million ($5.19 million) by the Federal Court over falsely claiming its GLAD kitchen and garbage bags were partially...
Mar 18 2025 // Australian pension fund Active Super has been fined A$10.5 million ($6.7 million) for making a number of misrepresentations about its environmental, social and governance credentials amid a regulator push to stamp out...
Jul 2 2025 // A cyber hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of customers, Qantas said, in Australia’s biggest breach in years and a setback for an airline rebuilding trust after a...
Jan 28 2026 // AUB Group Ltd., the Sydney, Australia-based brokerage and underwriting agency group, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire 95.9% of Prestige Insurance Holdings Ltd. for $432 million (US$300.1...
Apr 4 2025 // Hackers targeting Australia’s major pension funds in a series of coordinated attacks have stolen savings from some members at the biggest fund, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, and compromised more...