#Australia

Australia on Monday launched an antisemitism task force following an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne which police say was likely terrorism. The fire early on Friday at the ...

By Byron Kaye Since Meta  whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing the tech giant knew of social media’s mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders have agonised ...

Australia’s centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for ...

People leaving Lebanon continued to arrive in Cyprus on Thursday, with flights landing at Larnaca airport and boats continuing to dock at the marinas in Larnaca and Ayia Napa as ...

A recent slump in sales means Sydney liquor store owner Louise Dowling has to work an additional 40 hours a week to make up for the staff she had to let ...

Australia’s swimming heroes Mollie O’Callaghan and Kaylee McKeown will take some time off after the Olympics and skip the World Cup legs later this year after an emotional ...

By Theo Theophanous On July 21, 2024, Melbourne’s Federation Square was filled with more than 2,000 Greeks and Greek Cypriots and their supporters. The event was to commemorate the beginning of the ...

One of the world’s youngest air forces is taking part in war games alongside cutting-edge stealth fighter jets as the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea boosts defence ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar left Cyprus for Australia on Tuesday. He is travelling to Australia to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the presence of Turkish Cypriots in the country. ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, the oldest Cypriot veteran in Australia at 103 years old, will lead the march on Anzac Day this Thursday. Originally from Morphou village, Mouxouris moved to Sydney after the 1974 ...

Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country ...

The man who fatally stabbed six people at a mall in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bondi may have targeted women, police said on Monday, as the attacker’s father ...

Australia’s Northern Territory on Wednesday imposed a two-week youth curfew in the tourist town of Alice Springs, a day after a mass brawl involving 150 people, many of them armed ...

A retired Roman Catholic bishop appeared in court in remote Western Australia on Thursday on charges of sexual offences against children, including two counts of rape. The charges against Christopher ...

Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach ...

Ten people were killed in Australia after severe thunderstorms battered the country’s east over the Christmas holidays, authorities said on Wednesday, with tens of thousands of properties still without ...

Millions of Australians were left without a phone or internet connection on Wednesday after the country’s second-largest telecommunications provider experienced an unexplained nationwide outage. The outage crippled payment systems ...

Five people, including two children, were killed and several injured at a popular tourist town in rural Australia after a car crashed into a crowd of patrons on the front ...

A 57-year-old Australian man has been charged with engaging in sexual intercourse with a child in an abandoned beach in Protaras following international police cooperation. The two are blood relatives ...

Australian police said on Thursday they had arrested a 49-year-old woman over the deaths of three elderly people in August after they allegedly consumed mushrooms at a lunch hosted by ...

Australia on Saturday decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country’s efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples. Australians ...

I reside in Australia and have been trying to campaign to change the way that Australia observes its national day. Instead of it just being a celebration of Australia, I’...

Three people on board an inflatable catamaran in the Coral Sea off the northeast coast of Australia have been rescued after the vessel was damaged from several shark attacks, the ...

Three U.S. Marines died in an aircraft crash off the coast of northern Australia on Sunday while transporting troops during a routine military exercise, officials said. Five others were “...