Australia

“It’s a sad day for me. The end of a long run,” said James Harrison, who has donated blood for pregnant mothers to the Australian Red Cross Service for 60 years, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. After 1173 donations, the 81-year-old has finally hung up his blood bag. At 14, Harrison made a pledge […]

Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said on Tuesday that a group of African athletes who went missing during the Commonwealth Games must give themselves up or face being deported. Eight athletes from Cameroon, two from Uganda and a Rwandan para-powerlifting coach went missing from the April 4-15 Games at the Gold Coast, local […]

Giant kangaroos and tortoises as big as cars that once roamed Down Under weren’t killed off by humans, according to scientists. Modern archaeological research suggests that the first settlers reached the remote continent at least 65,000 years ago – almost 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. This means that humans lived alongside Australia’s huge and astonishing […]

A family of farmers in Queensland, Australia, has grown a field of sunflowers for a beautiful cause, moving people across the country. Lauren and Pete McNaughton, from the North Burnett region, started growing sunflowers for the first time in order to raise awareness and funds for the Stillbirth Foundation Australia—a charity dedicated to stillbirth research. Several years […]

SYDNEY—Uncertainty around Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s senior leadership deepened on Monday as the chief financial officer resigned unexpectedly, the fifth executive to depart in one of the worst governance crises in the bank’s history. Australia’s biggest bank is struggling to rebuild its reputation after a series of scandals revealed flaws in its leadership culture, exposing it […]

The Western Australian father of the four children who were killed in the suspected murder-suicide massacre has broken his silence as he comes to terms with the horrific tragedy which claimed the lives of 7 of his family members on Friday, May 11. Aaron Cockman, the estranged husband of victim Katrina Miles, said he was “filled with […]

Four children and three adults were found dead at a Western Australian rural property on Friday, May 11, in a mass homicide that has shocked the nation. Police have revealed details about the tragic shooting that tragically claimed the lives of loving members of a respectable family. Police Commissioner Chris Dawson refused to go into the specifics […]

“It’s a sad day for me. The end of a long run,” said James Harrison, who has donated blood for pregnant mothers to the Australian Red Cross Service for 60 years, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. After 1173 donations, the 81-year-old has finally hung up his blood bag. At 14, Harrison made a pledge […]

On Friday, May 11, Australian police found seven people, including four children, dead in a rural town in the Margaret River wine-growing area. They said guns were involved in the killings. Western Australia’s Commissioner of Police, Chris Dawson, said that the incident was clearly “an horrific tragedy.” It could be the worst mass-shooting that Australia […]

Australian police found seven dead people on Friday, including four children, in a rural town in the Margaret River wine-growing region, and said guns were involved in the killings. The bodies of four children and three adults were found at or near a property in Osmington near the southwestern tip of Australia, Western Australia’s Commissioner […]

As more and more Australians continue to stand up to and speak against the infiltration and influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) overseas, a grassroots movement against the Chinese regime continues to gain momentum in China. Since The Epoch Times published The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, more than 300 million oppressed Chinese […]

The ruling Liberal-National Coalition government announced its 2018 budget on Tuesday, May 8, which introduced changes that it says will ensure sustained growth to the country’s economy. The outline included budget-repair measures to bring down the country’s massive debt, but also some big spending measures, including tax relief for hard-working low- and middle-income Australians and […]

SYDNEY—Australia’s High Court has ruled an 11th lawmaker must leave parliament after discovering she was a dual national, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday, which prompted four more lawmakers to quit amid a widening citizenship crisis. The court found that opposition Senator Katy Gallagher was a British citizen at the time of her election, […]

Australia’s federal government is expected to announce hefty aged-care and infrastructure spending, and deliver some tax cuts as it reveals its annual budget on Tuesday, May 8. The Turnbull government also announced that it plans to return the federal budget to a surplus a whole year earlier than had been forecast. Low- to middle-income earners […]

SYDNEY—Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd said it would stop paying financial planners bonuses for selling its products, the first of the country’s top lenders to change business practices amid a powerful inquiry into misconduct in the sector. The move by Australia’s No. 3 lender on Monday shows how the Royal Commission into the […]

Protesters are urging a boycott of Real Bodies: The Exhibition, which recently opened in Sydney, due to the possibility that the plastinated human bodies and organs on display were taken without consent from executed Chinese political prisoners. The chief executive of the company behind Real Bodies, Tom Zaller, has defended the exhibition. He claims that […]

A large bushfire broke out near Ellenbrook, Perth, Western Australia, on Saturday, May 5. Witnesses said the flames, which were within metres of residential homes, were taller than a two-storey building, perthnow reported. Firefighters battled the blaze for about two hours before containing it. Video credit: Michael Buba via Storyful

The Federal Government has released a report on Australia’s schooling system and has accepted its recommendations “in principle,” the government said in a media release on Monday, April 30. Mr. David Gonski AC was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office to undertake the “Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools,” which was conducted alongside […]

SYDNEY/PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called for the creation of a new strategic alliance among France, India and Australia to respond to the growing assertiveness of China. On the second day of a visit to Australia, where he hopes to cement defence ties following the 2016 signing of a $38 billion megadeal to supply […]

Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it would open a new Australian fulfilment center in the southwest of Sydney, the country’s biggest city, in the second half of 2018. Amazon would begin recruiting immediately for a range of roles including operations, support and technical specialists, the company said in a statement. The company opened its first […]