(AFP) — Australia on Sunday announced a $38 billion spending plan to limit the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, as citizens were told to cancel domestic travel plans to slow the virus spread.
Australia declared a “human biosecurity emergency” on Wednesday as Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned the country’s citizens should cease all overseas travel because of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the world grapples with the unique medical challenges presented by the coronavirus outbreak, Australians are instead fighting over toilet paper supplies with reports of one angry customer drawing a knife in a supermarket to secure her share.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern publicly scolded her Australian counterpart at an extraordinarily vitriolic joint news conference Friday for his country’s rigid policy of deporting all foreign criminals to their homelands at the conclusion of their prison term.
Australia declared Thursday it is ready for any coronavirus global pandemic as it extended a travel ban on visitors from China with immediate effect.
Australia’s conservative coalition government will put jobs and the economy ahead of any U.N. demands for it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said Sunday.
Australia’s opposition left-wing Labor Party has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050 while admitting Friday it has absolutely no idea how much it will cost or what impact it will have on the economy.
A post on WeChat by a Chinese user named Yong Bo on Friday blamed Australians for being too lazy and unpatriotic to control the wildfires raging across their country, unlike the hard-working and patriotic Chinese who battled a massive fire in 1987.
The real concern of environmental activists like Greta Thunberg is not climate change, but to “upend society” and “move away from capitalism,” Australia’s Resources Minister Matt Canavan said Tuesday.
Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg again castigated Australia for its insistence on mining coal in spite of her complaints, adding a call Saturday for an end to the activity to her list of climate demands to be delivered at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos.
Australia’s ‘climate’ fires are fast becoming the biggest fake news scare story of 2020. All the world’s stupidest, most annoying, hand-wringing, virtue-signalling leftists, luvvies, eco-loons, shyster politicians, second-rate activist scientists and other bottom feeders are jumping on the bandwagon.
Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg has taken a swipe at Australia’s leaders as the bushfire disaster rages on, delivering demands for action tempered by her own advice for solutions to the problem convulsing the land Down Under.
Twenty veteran California firefighters head to Australia on Monday as the first U.S. ground crew to battle out-of-control bushfires that have killed at least 23 people.
Australia is on fire, at least 17 people have been killed, hundreds of homes have been destroyed, and an estimated half-billion animals — both livestock and wildlife — have been burned alive. The area burned in the bush fires so far is considerably bigger than the area burned either in last year’s Amazon rainforest fires or the fires in California.
Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison has slammed calls from radical climate activists to end the export of coal – an industry worth $67billion a year to the nation’s economy – as a new report shows global demand is set to keep increasing over the next decade and beyond.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday rejected Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg and her gratuitous advice, declaring he was “not here to impress people overseas.”
Australia’s conservative coalition government wants to strike a free trade deal with the UK as soon as possible in the wake of last week’s election result that puts Britain on a path to leave the European Union early next year.
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has declared social cohesion must be at the forefront of any future decisions on migrant intakes. This includes cautioning migrants they must fully embrace Australian values, including learning English, while pledging allegiance to the country that will be their new home.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has welcomed the stripping of a radical vegan activists group’s charity status, saying there was “nothing charitable” about the “green criminals” and their invasion of farmer’s homes and properties.
All Australian Defence Force veterans will now be eligible for special discounts as a way of thanking them for their service. The rewards come via a special card released Sunday by the Federal government on behalf of a grateful nation.
Australian and Fijian soldiers will be deployed to a disputed region between Syria and Israel on a United Nations peace-keeping mission.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison hit out at the United Nations on Thursday, saying he did not want to see global organisations interfering in the governance of independent nations and “demanding conformity” of words, thoughts and actions.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison stands by his phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump as a “simple granting of a very reasonable request” to a “trusted and respected ally.”
Trump asked the Australian prime minister to assist Attorney General William Barr in tracking down information regarding the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday emphasized environmental issues and maritime sovereignty, concluding with some criticism of climate activists for using children to accomplish their political objectives.
The speech expected to start at 5:30 p.m. EST.
President Donald Trump welcomed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to the White House on Friday, and one young guest on the White House lawn was overjoyed when the president stopped and shook his hand.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrived in Washington, DC, Thursday for a week-long U.S. visit, promising to lay the foundations for another 100 years of friendship between the two staunch allies.
Tough qualification rules and a preferrence for skilled workers has seen the number of migrants granted permanent residency in Australia fall to its lowest level in a decade.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ordered his own department to remove gender-neutral signage on bathroom doors, lambasting them as “ridiculous.”
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government will “boot out” a convicted child sex offender all the way back to his homeland Iraq once his prison sentence has been finished.
Australia will join the United States and the UK in an international maritime coalition protecting oil tankers and cargo ships from threats posed by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday.
Australia has no intention of stopping the deportation of convicted Kiwi criminals to their homeland, despite a personal plea from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the practice to end.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed Saturday he has been invited by U.S. President Donald Trump to an official state dinner at the White House. It is the first such invitation to an Australian prime minister since George Bush hosted John Howard in 2006.
Australia and America “see the world through the same eyes” declared Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday moments after he landed on the deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
An Australian student detained in North Korea is in “good spirits” after being released by the country’s communist regime, his family announced on Thursday.
Officers of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) raided the Canberra home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst on Tuesday morning, a little over a year after Smethurst published a story that leaked government discussions about enhanced surveillance powers.
Three Chinese warships have sailed into Sydney Harbor for a stopover just four days after Australian navy helicopter pilots flying off the flagship HMAS Canberra were hit by lasers while transiting the South China Sea.
Australian conservatives won by ignoring international opinion and supporting Australian voters who want strict immigration curbs. In fact, Australia’s strict immigration policy is so successful that it has come to the attention of the Trump administration, which seeks to shift U.S. policy in the same productive direction.
Australia’s conservative coalition government has been returned to power and world leaders are lining up to congratulate Prime Minister Scott Morrison on an achievement only he and his backers could have ever imagined.
