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Officials in Australia have confirmed that the nation’s first openly gay Olympic bobsledder, Simon Dunn, has died suddenly at the age of 35.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic received raucous applause on Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena court Friday night, his first time back to the top Australian tennis stage since the government imprisoned him in a migrant detention facility and deported him for not ingesting a Chinese coronavirus vaccine last year.

Former Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian was among the Communist regime’s most aggressive, and frequently offensive, spokesmen, trafficking in all sorts of deranged conspiracy theories and slander against China’s adversaries.

ROME — The indomitable Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s leading Catholic prelate for decades, died in Rome late Tuesday at the age of 81.

M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles (BFVs) will be shipped to Ukraine ahead of a larger tranche of donated U.S. armor, White House officials announced Thursday, as the world rushes to meet Kyiv’s almost insatiable demand for military assistance.

Australia’s incoming ambassador to the United States, left-wing former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, has lectured America to stop throwing foreign allies “under a bus” on trade and economic issues in Asia.

A pilot, two British visitors and a Sydney woman have been identified as the four people killed in a collision of two helicopters.

The government of Morocco on Sunday became the first country to ban travelers from China outright as a massive wave of Chinese coronavirus sweeps across that country.

Two helicopters collided in an Australian tourist hotspot, killing four passengers and critically injuring three others.

Canada and Australia on Sunday joined the swelling list of countries demanding travelers from China take a coronavirus test prior to flight boarding, almost three years to the day since the first cases were notified in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The Beijing-controlled government of Hong Kong on Thursday asked Japan to retract its restrictions on incoming flights from China, while France and Australia separately announced they saw no reason to impose special restrictions on Chinese travelers.

Three children were found alive Tuesday after a car crash killed their parents in Western Australia on a remote stretch of outback highway.

An Australian A-League soccer game erupted in chaos when fans flooded the field and attacked players with a metal bucket and road flares.

An Australian man is lucky to be alive after he floated for nearly 24 hours in shark- and crocodile-infested waters while only hanging on to a piece of wood.

China publicly warned Australia on Wednesday against being an “enthusiastic bandwagoner of the U.S. strategy” in the contentious Indo-Pacific region after Foreign Minister Penny Wong concluded her visit to Beijing.

Football Australia has vowed to take strong and swift action with harsh punishments after an A-League soccer match between rivals Melbourne City and Melbourne Victory was abandoned Saturday after fans invaded the field and attacked City goalkeeper Tom Glover.

Thirteen Iraqis have been stopped and turned back mid-ocean as they tried to enter Australia by small boat from Indonesia.

Two constables were shot dead Monday night while investigating a missing person report in stringently gun-controlled Australia, and a third person was shot and killed when he heard the shots and went to investigate.

An Australian airline opened an investigation after baggage handlers were caught apparently moving luggage in a rough manner.

The BBC on Monday cited a recent study about child abuse surging in the Philippines during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as disturbing evidence of a problem that may have metastasized around the world.

Australia’s shift to nuclear subs will assure South Pacific neighbors of commitment to regional security, Britain’s Minister of State said.

Vice President Kamala Harris said during her first official visit to the Philippines on Monday that the United States will honor a 1951 bilateral defense treaty and defend Filipino ships against Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with various world leaders at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, prominently including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea.

Multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday, citing Australian government officials, that tennis champion Novak Djokovic’s visa ban would be revoked in time for him to play the Australian Open in January.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Novak Djokovic is set to be granted a visa to play in next year’s Australian Open despite his high-profile deportation in January.

Hundreds of passengers with the Chinese coronavirus are disembarking a cruise ship Saturday in Sydney, Australia.

The U.S. will deploy up to six nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress bombers to a remote Australian airbase in a move experts say is aimed directly at China, a report Monday details.

Six in ten Australians believe elite sporting codes are “too politically correct,” a poll Friday revealed, with the sports-mad nation Down Under turning on woke athletes and management who want to preach politics over simply doing what they are lucky enough to be paid to do.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Wednesday that his government will send military trainers and 30 Bushmaster armored vehicles to assist Ukrainian forces against the Russian invasion.

Appearing Wednesday on the Fox News Channel, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Australia over its decision to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital. 

Australia announced Wednesday it will investigate “alarming reports” China has been hiring its retired air force fighter pilots alongside those from the UK to train Beijing’s military in combat skills.

Israel on Tuesday slammed Australia and summoned the country’s ambassador after Canberra announced it no longer recognized western Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. “In light of the way in which the decision was made in Australia, as a hasty response

Australia’s left-wing Labor government has reversed the previous conservative administration’s recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Tuesday’s move drew an angry response from the Jewish state and applause from Palestinian activists and the Hamas terrorist organization.

Australia took on Fiji in a tough 80-minutes of rugby Saturday night during their Rugby League World Cup match at Headingley Stadium, Leeds, in the north of England.

China’s state-run Global Times did not think highly of the Biden administration’s latest National Security Strategy (NSS) document, hyperbolically claiming the entire world was immediately gripped by “a strong sense of unease and concern” because American national security will “come at the expense of the security of other countries.”

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy has compiled data on military, financial and humanitarian aid promised by world governments to Ukraine, showing billions of dollars in cash and kind crossing the border into the embattled country.