DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on Thursday began the trial of an Australian man who faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted of possessing methamphetamine under the country’s tough drug laws. Troy Andrew Smith, from Port Lincoln in South Australia, was arrested on April 30 […]
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has urged activists on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian debate to “turn the heat down” after the US consulate in Sydney was vandalised. CCTV footage showed a person wearing a dark hoodie using a small sledgehammer to smash nine holes in the reinforced glass windows of the building in North […]
English ethologist and activist Jane Goodall is returning to Australia for the first time in five years with her “Reasons for Hope” tour. The 90-year-old Jane is best known for her over 60 years of research on chimpanzees, which began in 1960 at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Her work revealed that humans are […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s online safety watchdog said on Wednesday she had dropped her Federal Court case that attempted to force X Corp. to take down a video of a Sydney bishop being stabbed. But eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said she would continue her legal action in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal against the […]
Australia’s online watchdog on Wednesday dropped a legal effort to force Elon Musk’s X to remove posts depicting the violent stabbing of a Sydney priest. “I have decided to discontinue the proceedings in the Federal Court against X Corp,” eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said in a statement. The watchdog had ordered Musk’s company to […]
Newcastle-based band Rum Jungle is set to embark on a regional tour across Australia, performing for fans in 22 major cities from Adelaide and the Gold Coast to regional Wagga, Townsville, and Torquay. The tour comes on the heels of their latest single, “Did The Morning Let You Down,” and their critically acclaimed EP, Hold […]
(Bloomberg) — A section of a key liquefied natural gas export facility in Australia halted production Monday, threatening to further tighten global supplies after a pipeline issue in Norway curbed flows in Europe. Most Read from Bloomberg Chevron Corp.’s Gorgon liquefied facility halted production on one of its three units, according to people familiar with […]
Australia has always been a biodiversity hotspot, with some gnarly extinct megafauna in its natural history. Enormous, flightless ‘thunder birds’ or mihirungs once roamed the rugged Australian outback. The last remaining mihirung species was the roughly 6.5 feet tall Genyornis newtoni. These stocky birds went extinct about 45,000 years ago–living alongside humans for a bit. […]
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – An annual poll of how Australians view foreign relations showed trust in the United States has dipped, although most (83%) saw the U.S. alliance as important for security, and 63% said it makes Australia safer from attack or pressure from China. Cyberattacks from other nations were seen as the […]
A man who allegedly ran naked down the aisle of an Australian domestic flight and knocked down a crew member, forcing the plane to turn back, has been arrested by police, officials said. The alleged incident happened early in what was scheduled to be a three-and-a-half-hour Virgin Australia flight on Monday night from the west […]
Australia prepared on Monday to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the site of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea. However, poor weather and overnight rains in the South Pacific nation’s mountainous region have sparked new fears that the tons of rubble that buried hundreds of villagers could soon become dangerously unstable. […]
Australian businesses are stepping up their investment plans over the past 12 months despite the slowing economy. Data from Commonwealth Bank of Australia shows a 22% year-over-year uplift in vehicle and equipment financing. The new figures show a record number of businesses are financing greener assets. Electric vehicle fleets are up more than threefold (325%) […]