New Insurance Council data shows extreme weather drove billions in insured losses from 264,000 claims with Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred and late-year hailstorms delivering the biggest hits ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which had already been moving at a sluggish pace, has slowed even further now, delaying the landfall and raising serious concerns about prolonged storm impacts for Australia’s ...

Insurers say Australians suffered $3.5 billion in losses to hail, storms, and floods in 2025 - up 600 per cent on the year ...

From hail damage on cars to rooves ripped off homes, severe weather events across Australia caused an eye-watering $3.5 billion in insured losses in 2025.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred flooded Australia's southeastern coast from late February to early March — but the nation is just beginning to understand the full extent of the damage to its farmers.

A slow-moving tropical storm has crossed Australia’s heavily populated eastern coast, lashing the region with damaging winds and heavy rain that’s forecast to fall for days to come. Cyclone Alfred, ...

SYDNEY, March 17 (Reuters) - The Australian treasury expects costs from Tropical Cyclone Alfred to be about A$1.2 billion ($759 million), shaving off a quarter of a percentage point from its gross ...

When ex-tropical cyclone Alfred crossed the coast of Queensland, Australia, in early March, residents expected the usual damaging winds, power outages, extensive flooding, and a corresponding boom in ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian city of Darwin on Saturday shut its international airport as a precaution over a tropical cyclone forecast to bring destructive winds and flooding to the country's ...

The government minister tasked with driving the community’s recovery from a natural disaster is on safari in Africa while her ...

SYDNEY, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Australia's northeast state of Queensland were without power on Sunday after a tropical cyclone crossed the coast bringing heavy rain and destructive ...