A pair of German climate protesters who blocked entry to a major Australian seaport have been arrested, had their visas canceled and on Thursday were being readied for immediate deportation after a court appearance.
World number one Ashleigh Barty announced her immediate retirement from tennis Wednesday. The Australian champion is just 25. The first home-grown winner of the Australian Open in 44 years made the surprise announcement just months after she joined elite ranks
The protection of liberal, democratic values is a more important short-term goal than reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian lawmaker said Tuesday in response to the U.N. singling out Canberra for defying its order to ditch coal as part of the reset world.
Australia’s competition watchdog has filed a lawsuit against Facebook (now known as Meta) alleging that the social media giant failed to prevent scammers promoting fake ads on its platform.
The U.S. Department of Defence confirmed the deployment Monday of thousands of reinforcements to Northern Australia against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions with China across the Indo/Pacific region.
The Australian and Dutch governments instigated a joint legal case Monday against Russia in an effort to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.
Australia confirmed Tuesday it will be supplying Ukraine with $50 million in missiles, ammunition and other military hardware to help them repel the ongoing Russian invasion.
A group of surfers are getting a lot of attention after rescuing an elderly man from being dragged out to sea by rushing water in Sydney, Australia.
Australia is sending “lethal aid” to Ukraine to help it repel Russia’s invasion, with Canberra adding a warning Sunday for its own citizens to stay away from the fight.
A Chinese naval vessel allegedly shone a laser at an Australian military aircraft last Thursday and was “so close” to Australia’s coastline at the time of the incident “it could have been seen from the shore,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday.
Nurses in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) remained on strike on Monday for the sixth-straight day to demand a pay raise and set nurse-to-patient ratios, NSW’s South Coast Register reported.
Australia’s borders reopened on Monday as tearful Aussies and visitors embraced at airports with some seeing loved ones for the first time since the country went into self-imposed isolation back in 2020.
Britain’s Home Secretary has tasked Alexander Downer, one of the masterminds of Australia’s tough border policies, with reviewing Britain’s notoriously weak Border Force.
Queen Elizabeth II has admitted to experiencing physical difficulties associated with age just 10 days after her Platinum Jubilee.
Australia on Thursday announced it will designate Hamas as a terror group in its entirety, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to praise the country for “standing strong in the face of terror.”
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrision on Sunday called out China for being “chillingly silent” on the alleged looming Russian threat against Ukraine.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday accused U.S. President Joe Biden of seeking to provoke a war between Ukraine and Russia because he wants to boost the American economy at the expense of those in Asia and Europe, while “using the tension to stir up trouble for China-Russia ties.”
An Australian court has rejected an appeal from Facebook attempting to overturn a ruling relating to the company’s infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. The judge called Facebook’s argument that it doesn’t collect data on Australian users “divorced from reality,” saying: “It is not an outlier activity. It is one of the things ‘which makes Facebook work.'”
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Monday that Australia will reopen its borders to “double vaccinated” tourists from the 21st of February.
Australian truckers used social media over the weekend to plan their own “Freedom Convoy” similar to the one in Canada, telling supporters they should “swarm to Canberra to protest mandates and restrictions” on Monday.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Tuesday that her government is considering tougher economic sanctions against Russians involved in escalating tensions with Ukraine.
Women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova condemned the Australian Open as “pathetic” and “cowardly” on Sunday for making spectators remove T-shirts that asked “Where Is Peng Shuai?”
Tech giant Google is attempting to have the High Court of Australia overturn a 2020 ruling, claiming that it would have a “devastating” effect on the internet and force Google to “act as censor.” Of course, Google, or “the Good Censor” as one internal document Breitbart News exclusively reported on calls it, already engaged in widespread censorship.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lost control of his social media account on the Chinese-owned platform WeChat as a lawmaker Monday accused Beijing of political interference.
The first major national political poll of 2022 revealed a significant drop in support for Australia’s ruling party coalition and a slight lead for the opposition Labor Party on Tuesday, a trend that could doom Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s re-election prospects.
Tennis Australia officials expressed deep “regret” Tuesday about the saga surrounding Novak Djokovic’s entry and ultimate deportation from the country.
In what looks like a potential repeat of the Djokovic controversy in Australia, France has declared that unjabbed foreign athletes will not be permitted to play in the country.
Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic returned to his native Serbia on Monday, receiving a hero’s welcome from a throng of fans after the Australian government blocked him from participating in the Australian Open and deported him over a coronavirus vaccination dispute.
Australia’s federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, confirmed in an interview on Monday that tennis star Novak Djokovic received a valid Australian visa when he entered the country in early January, but claimed a “computer” was responsible for the error.
A “disappointed” Novak Djokovic said Sunday he accepts a court has dismissed his deportation challenge and acknowledged his hopes of playing at the Australian Open are over.
Novak Djokovic will be deported from Australia. The decision came Sunday after Federal Court judges upheld Canberra’s decision to cancel the unvaccinated Serbian player’s visa.
Australia returned Novak Djokovic to detention on Saturday, saying the tennis star’s opposition to vaccination could cause “civil unrest”.
Attorneys representing Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic revealed during a hearing Friday that Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke chose to revoke Djokovic’s visa out of fear that his presence in the country would “excite anti-vax sentiment.”
Australia’s Immigration Minister Alex Hawke used his personal power Friday to cancel Novak Djokovic’s visa, sparking the Serbian tennis star to file an immediate injunction against the decision ahead of his return to enforced detention.
Australia’s the Age reported on Wednesday that Australian farmers are destroying millions of dollars worth of fresh produce because strict coronavirus lockdowns are depriving them of the labor needed to harvest the food, and their customers lack the labor necessary to deliver produce to store shelves.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday that it had found evidence suggesting that someone had tampered with PCR test results showing tennis star Novak Djokovic had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus on December 16.
Novak Djokovic released a statement Wednesday in which he admitted to knowingly attending a media interview last month after testing positive for coronavirus.
Organizers of the Australian Open on Tuesday officially granted Novak Djokovic the top seed at the tournament, which begins next Monday, even as the country’s Immigration Ministry threatens to abruptly deport him for not consuming a Chinese coronavirus vaccine product.
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic was trashed on a television network in Australia on Monday night, with a live pre-broadcast microphone catching two presenters unleashing on the visiting world number one.
Regardless of what happens from this point on, Djokovic will be the winner, and the Australian government very much the loser.
