The premier of the Australian state of New South Wales State has initiated a national discussion on the inviolability of the Catholic “seal of confession” following a Royal Commission recommendation that priests be required to divulge any sexual abuse of children heard in the confessional.
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says it’s “unquestionable” some white South African farmers are being persecuted and his department is looking into specific cases.
The Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has warned that staying in the EU’s Customs Union after Brexit would render Britain “irrelevant”.
Australia wants to begin negotiating a new trade deal with the UK on “day one” of Brexit next year and put it into effect on January 1, 2021.
Dozens of whales tragically died on the southwestern tip of Australia in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
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Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has dismissed claims of racism over his plan to resettle South African white minority farmers in Australia, saying he ignores the confected outrage “from some of the crazy lefties at the Guardian and Huffington Post.”
Left-liberal activists have been enraged by an Australian proposal to help South Africa’s persecuted white minority, branding it “ridiculously racist”.
Female surfers wearing high-cut bikini bottoms have been assured by the sport’s administrators that their backsides won’t be broadcast to the world. At least not in revealing close-up.
Actor Matt Damon has purchased property in Australia and is moving his family Down Under over the polices of President Donald Trump, according to a Page Six report.
Australia is ready to consider issuing special visas to mainly white, Afrikaans-speaking South African farmers due to the “horrific circumstances” of land seizures, violence and murder they face.
Australian airline Qantas has reportedly advised employees not to “manterrupt” women or use gender-specific pronouns.
Israel warned 30 countries about specific terror threats in the course of 2017, Israel Economy Minister Eli Cohen has claimed.
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Former President Barack Obama is heading Down Under and will visit Australia next month as part of a trip that will also see him speak in New Zealand.
Israeli intelligence services provided critical information that foiled a plot by the Islamic State terrorist group to blow up a plane mid-flight, Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said.
An Australian newspaper editor who believes migration is a ‘privilege’ and new arrivals ‘should learn English’ has been attacked by members of the left wing Labor Party.
The Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday that Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are considering an alliance to counter China’s growing influence – in particular, the huge “Belt and Road” trade project undertaken by China.
Australia and New Zealand will be the next destinations for Hillary Clinton’s What Happened book tour, with “exclusive first access” tickets to hear her speak in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland announced.
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A Muslim man who was part of a group seeking to “kill as many unbelievers as they can and impose Sharia law” used the Boston Marathon terror attack as his model, a court has heard.
Australian government ministers have been banned from having sex with their staff after the country’s deputy leader was exposed as having an affair that left a former aide pregnant and the conservative coalition government in disarray.
U.S. Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris has been picked as the new U.S. Ambassador to Australia in a move that has been warmly welcomed Down Under.
A visiting Bangladeshi woman stabbed a sleeping man in the neck in Melbourne, Australia, in what police allege is an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack.
Australian-born Philadelphia 76ers phenom Ben Simmons is having an incredible season, and Labor MP Tim Watts made his “outrage” with Simmons’ NBA All-Star Game snub known this week while speaking at parliament. “In a record-breaking rookie year for the Philadelphia 76ers, Ben
An Australian judge has been called “unreasonable” for ordering the Muslim wife of an accused terrorist to remove her niqab and show her face while attending her husband’s trial.
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump later this month, the White House has confirmed. The visit between the two leaders will take place on February 23.
The second group of mostly male Afghan and Pakistani nationals with “acute mental health problems” are expected to arrive in the United States this month from Australia after President Trump failed to executively terminate a President Obama-crafted refugee resettlement deal.
Australia rolled out a sweeping package of laws designed to counteract espionage and foreign political influence in December, but criticism of the laws prompted a parliamentary review beginning on Tuesday. In essence, the critics fear Australia has gone too far and jeopardized free speech rights, as well as creating legal pitfalls for international institutions, including media organizations and the Catholic Church.
Australia has announced an ambitious plan to fund the development and manufacture of a range of military weapons as part of a push to become a major arms exporter.
WASHINGTON — The United States has ordered more stringent inspections of air cargo from five Middle East countries, citing a June 2017 attempt in Australia to bring down a plane as evidence that terrorist groups continue to target civilian aviation.
An Australian professor argues that small preschool furniture is “problematic” and “gendered,” in a recently published academic journal article.
Marriott International was one of several companies caught up in China’s crackdown on foreign corporations that allegedly insult its territorial integrity by treating controversial or semi-autonomous regions like Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao, and especially Taiwan as separate “countries” on their websites. Days after the story broke, Marriott is still offering fulsome apologies and implementing a draconian “eight-point rectification plan” to get right with Beijing.
An Australian lifeguard drone successfully saved two teenagers from drowning by dropping an inflatable rescue pod.
The British settlement of Australia has been applauded as a “very good thing” by former prime minister Tony Abbott, who added that Australians must not give in to “carping self-criticism” over the passage of history.
Nigel Farage MEP has slammed attempts to “overturn” and “frustrate” Brexit, whilst attacking the Irish premier for putting the interest of the European Union (EU) above those of his people.
Alarmist scientists have found a terrifying new ‘ climate change’ threat: mutant transgender turtles.
China’s efforts to exert political and cultural influence in Australia produced a major scandal with the fall of Senator Sam Dastyari, who took money from a billionaire linked to the Chinese government and ended up parroting Beijing’s propaganda line on the South China Sea. The United States Senate recent convened a bipartisan commission to study Chinese influence efforts, which include meddling in Western higher education as well as politics. Now The Economist warns that China’s “sharp power” is cutting into Europe as well.
Nearly 200 Middle East nationals, primarily from Pakistan and Afghanistan, will arrive in the United States as refugees in January 2018 after President Trump failed to end a refugee deal with Australia that he committed to opposing.
