The 59-year-old man was struck by a falling tree Sunday night while fighting a wildfire near the New South Wales town of Bulahdelah that had razed 3,500 hectares (8,650 acres) of woodlands and destroyed four homes over the weekend, Rural Fire Service Commissioner Trent Curtin said.

A woman has died, and a man was seriously injured after a shark attack off Australia’s east coast, police said Friday.

An Australian senator has been barred from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing a burqa in the chamber