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Three men found guilty of plotting 2016 attacks on Melbourne

November 14th, 2018 Three men have been found guilty of plotting bomb attacks in the Australian city of Melbourne in 2016, according to a court ruling made public on...

Oceania

'Life goes on': Thousands mark WW1 Armistice in Australia

November 11th, 2018 By Sonali Paul and Alison Bevege Thousands of people attended memorial services across Melbourne to mark the centenary of the Armistice ending World War...

Oceania

Gas cylinders set on fire, three stabbed in Australia terror attack

November 9th, 2018 A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the centre of the Australian city of Melbourne on Friday and stabbed three people,...

Oceania

Australia stares at hung parliament as by-election count goes to the wire

October 21st, 2018 As the count from a crucial Australian by-election dragged into Sunday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison faced the possibility that his Liberal party may have...

Oceania

Australian study identifies more than 30 gender options

October 10th, 2018 From gender-fluid and non-binary to genderqueer, the world has grappled in recent years with the growing spectrum of how people identify themselves. Now an...

Oceania

NZ fines travellers who will not unlock devices for custom officials

October 4th, 2018 Visitors to New Zealand can be fined £2,500 for refusing to provide passwords to unlock electronic devices so customs officials can examine them under a new...

Oceania

Earthquake of 6.4 magnitude strikes off Guam

September 23rd, 2018 A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the U.S. territory of Guam on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or...

World

Australia to start powerful public inquiry into aged-care sector

September 16th, 2018 By Lidia Kelly Australia will begin a public inquiry, or Royal Commission, into the country's aged-care sector as a spike in cases of elderly abuse creates...

Oceania

Two dead after suspected drug overdose at Sydney music festival

September 16th, 2018 Two people died, a dozen more were hospitalised and hundreds others sought medical assistance after suspected drug overdoses at a music festival in Sydney, the...

Oceania

Australia offers reward as strawberries sabotaged with needles

September 15th, 2018 The Australian state of Queensland on Saturday offered a A$100,000 ($71,500) reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for sabotaging...

Oceania

Australia's new PM to face hostile parliament in test of mettle

September 7th, 2018 Australia's new Prime Minister Scott Morrison, elected to heal his fractured party, faces his biggest test on Monday, in steering the government through a...

World

At least four killed, 38 missing after quake paralyses Hokkaido

September 6th, 2018 At least four people were killed and 33 were missing after a powerful earthquake paralysed Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, media reported,...

World

Typhoon kills 10 in Japan, boats move stranded passengers from airport [V]

September 5th, 2018 A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a flooded airport,...

Oceania

Powerful typhoon hits western Japan, killing at least six [V]

September 4th, 2018 Japan issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and cancelled hundreds of flights as Typhoon Jebi sliced across the west on Tuesday, killing...

Oceania

Bomb kills one and injures 15 in cafe in southern Philippines

September 2nd, 2018 A bomb blast killed one person and injured 15 in an internet cafe in the southern Philippines on Sunday, in the second such attack in days blamed by the...

Oceania

Church in Australia rejects abuse reporting, defying new laws

August 31st, 2018 The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional,...

Oceania

Ex Australian PM resigns from parliament, govt loses majority

August 31st, 2018 Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday resigned from parliament, a source familiar with the matter said, stripping the government of its...

Oceania

Australian foreign minister resigns amid Cabinet revamp

August 26th, 2018 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop resigned from new Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Cabinet on Sunday, two days after a bruising leadership battle that...

Oceania

New Australian PM promises stability (Update)

August 24th, 2018 Incoming Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison promised generational change in the warring Liberal party on Friday, seeking to end an internecine battle...

Oceania

Australian PM Turnbull stubbornly clings to power

August 23rd, 2018 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull stubbornly clung to power on Thursday as senior ministers deserted him, saying he would hold a second leadership...

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