
TIMELINE - Antisemitic attacks escalate in Australia
Police in the state of New South Wales, that has Sydney as its capital, have arrested forty people for antisemitic offences.
Wed Jan 22 2025
The Future Is Female: Image-Based Sexual Abuse — Fighting Deepfake Exploitation
On this episode of #TheFutureIsFemale, Melisa Idris speaks with Noelle Martin, an Activist, Law Reform Campaigner, Legal Researcher & Lawyer, advocating against image-based sexual abuse, and fighting for digital privacy and consent. Her advocacy were a major factor in new laws being introduced and passed in New South Wales in 2017, in 2018 at the Commonwealth level and in Western Australia, making it a criminal offence to distribute non-consensual intimate images.
Sun Oct 20 2024

Woman dead, 120,000 without power as damaging storms hit Australia
Authorities received over 2,800 call outs overnight, mostly for fallen trees and building damage.
Mon Sep 02 2024

Thousands protest Australia Day holiday with 'Invasion Day' rallies
Australia Day commemorates the day Britain established the state of New South Wales a penal colony.
Fri Jan 26 2024

Planting 'koala corridors' to save Australia's endangered marsupial
The koala is predicted to be extinct in New South Wales by 2050, with some of the biggest threats being wildfires and habitat loss.
Sat Nov 25 2023

Bus accident kills 10 wedding guests in Australia
At least 10 people died and 25 were injured after a chartered bus carrying wedding guests rolled off a ramp at a roundabout.
Mon Jun 12 2023

Australian woman pardoned after 20 years in jail for deaths of her four children
The judicial review found there was reasonable doubt about the original convictions.
Mon Jun 05 2023

Sydney swelters through autumn heatwave, bushfire threat looms
Total fire bans are now in place across NSW, while 35 public schools, mostly in inland regions, have been closed due to the severe heat.
Mon Mar 06 2023

Australians rescued from rooftops as torrential rain ravages rural towns
Hundreds of residents in flood-ravaged Australia's southeast were rescued by helicopter and boat after rivers rose rapidly.
Tue Nov 15 2022

Flash floods in Australia's southeast cut off inland towns
Fresh evacuation warnings were issued for thousands of rural residents.
Mon Nov 14 2022

Residents told to evacuate as flood waters rise in regional Australia
Slow-moving floodwaters push downstream and the country's fourth major flood crisis this year rolls into a second month.
Thu Nov 03 2022

Sydney residents assess flood damage as wild weather eases
Major flooding could continue for several days with rivers and dams already at full capacity even before the latest storm.
Thu Jul 07 2022

Remains found in Australia identified as belonging to a Malaysian - Police
The human remains found near Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on Sunday have been confirmed as belonging to a Malaysian who was believed to have been murdered more than a year ago.
Tue Apr 05 2022

Thousands of Australians flee homes as floods inundate towns
Fast-moving flood waters burst river banks and broke over levees as heavy rains deluged Australia's east coast.
Wed Mar 30 2022

Australia to declare east coast floods a national emergency
Morrison said authorities are looking to deploy aid and urgent supplies to the worst-hit areas.
Wed Mar 09 2022

Ramsay reveals hundreds of lucky cat statues stolen from new restaurant
Gordon Ramsay says about 477 Japanese cat models called maneki-neko were stolen from his Lucky Cat 22 Bishopsgate restaurant.
Fri Feb 21 2025

Zayn Rayyan case: Two child witnesses complete testimony today
So far, 20 prosecution witnesses, including the two children, have been called for this trial, according to the Deputy Public Prosecutor.
Fri Feb 21 2025

Macron says he will tell Trump not to be weak with Putin in Washington visit
Emmanuel Macron says showing any weakness to Russia's Vladimir Putin would make it harder to deal with China and Iran.
Fri Feb 21 2025

Israeli PM Netanyahu says Hamas will pay for not returning Shiri Bibas
Netanyahu accuse Hamas of acting "in an unspeakably cynical manner" by placing body of a Gaza woman in the coffin instead of Shiri Bibas.
Fri Feb 21 2025

Trump pulls US out of key global climate assessment, sources say
The US is a co-chair along with Malaysia of a working group on climate mitigation, or ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Fri Feb 21 2025

Japan to court Tesla on Nissan investment, FT reports
The group hopes Tesla will invest strategically, believing it's interested in acquiring Nissan's US plants, the report says.
Fri Feb 21 2025

185 children linked to GISB handed over to families - Exco
The children have been handed over to their families on bond with conditions by the court.
Fri Feb 21 2025

IRS fires 6,000 employees as Trump slashes US government
The move will eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season.
Fri Feb 21 2025

Elon Musk wields chainsaw at conservative gathering, a gift from Argentina's Milei
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy, says Elon Musk.
Fri Feb 21 2025
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[OPINION] For never again the world must know more about the Khojaly genocide
For Azerbaijanis, the Khojaly genocide is more than a historical event - it is a collective trauma that shapes their identity and worldview.
Fri Feb 21 2025