Australia

Treasurer Jim Chalmers's 2026-27 budget pivots clean-energy policy from industrial subsidies toward consumer-side regulation, funding a new Clean Energy Regulator body for distributed solar, batteries, and EVs while cutting Hydrogen Headstart, Solar Sunshot, and Battery Breakthrough.

An analysis of 2,456 mitochondrial genomes published in Science Advances identifies two distinct maritime routes humans used to reach Sahul roughly 60,000 years ago.

A 36-day voyage aboard CSIRO's RV Investigator surveyed 61 deep-water sites in Australia's Coral Sea Marine Park, collecting over 6,000 fishes and 80,000 invertebrates and identifying more than 120 species new to science at depths reaching 3,600 meters.