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AUSTRALIAN POLICE BUST DRUG SMUGGLING RING, SEIZE $260MN WORTH OF COCAINE
Australian police bust drug smuggling ring, seize 260mn worth of cocaine -- RT News... READ MORE›
PYTHON EATS WALLABY ON AUSTRALIAN GOLF COURSE
Was likely to have dropped onto the unsuspecting wallaby from a tree... READ MORE›
REFUGEES FACE A GROWING BACKLASH IN A LIBERAL AUSTRALIAN CITY
Between 2003 and 2005, 70 percent of all refugees allowed into Australia were African... READ MORE›
MORE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS LOST TO SUICIDE THAN FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN WAR
The 'Afghanistan Lessons from Australia's Whole-of-Government Mission' was produced by the Australian Civil Military Centre... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN MAN BITTEN BY VENOMOUS SNAKE TWICE IN 3 DAYS
Both likely were eastern brown snakes, also known as the common brown snake, which is world's second-most-venomous land snake after Australia's inland taipan, Corrigan said... READ MORE›
DENG ADUT 'SHOCKED' TO BE NAMED NSW AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
The 33-year-old refugee and criminal lawyer shed tears as he received the top honour from Premier Mike Baird at ceremony in Sydney on Monday night... READ MORE›
ANYTHING TO DECLARE? ARRESTED AUSTRALIAN HANDS OVER BAG CONTAINING BABY KOALA
The woman and koala were taken to the Brisbane city watch house, where the RSPCA took the joey into its care... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN NGO VOLUNTEER KIDNAPPED IN KABUL, REPORTS SAY
An Australian woman working for a non-governmental organization in Afghanistan was abducted Saturday night in Kabul, according to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA'S FAR-RIGHT GROUPS PROTEST SYRIAN REFUGEE HOUSING
Far right political parties are on the rise in Australia, with the controversial One Nation party surprising many by winning four Senate seats at the country's national elections in July... READ MORE›
MISSING AUSTRALIAN BACKPACKER RESCUED IN MALAYSIAN NATIONAL PARK
Missing Australian Andrew Gaskell has been found by Malaysian search and rescue crews after going missing in a national park... READ MORE›
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DOUBLE STANDARDS CITED AMID ARMED PROTEST IN OREGON
Nine people killed at a college in Roseburg by 26-year-old gunman who was later killed in a shootout with police... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN HOMES AMONG FIRST TO GET TESLA'S POWERWALL SOLAR-ENERGY BATTERY
The Tesla product isn't unique by any stretch, but it's the Apple brand of the battery storage industry, they have the sex appeal that others don't... READ MORE›
FBI ARRESTS JEWISH AMERICAN FOR POSING AS AUSTRALIAN ONLINE JIHADIST
In recent days Australi Witness has claimed online that he is working with other jihadists to plan attacks in Australia and the United States... READ MORE›
COMMENT: OUR POKIES CULTURE IS UN-AUSTRALIAN AND IT NEEDS TO STOP - NOW
Over the next couple of months we are going to be launching a campaign called Proudly Pokies Free... READ MORE›
10 AUSTRALIAN SPECIES AT EXTREME RISK OF EXTINCTION
The federal environment minister Greg Hunt launches a strategy with measurable targets and experts discuss how to save the most at-risk species... READ MORE›
GRAVE FEARS FOR AUSTRALIAN SURFERS MISSING IN MEXICO
An area known as the home of the Sinaloa drug cartel... READ MORE›
WHY IS IT LEFT TO US NGOS TO EXPOSE AUSTRALIAN MINING'S WRONGDOING IN AFRICA?
The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE›
HOW AUSTRALIAN HOUSEHOLDS BECAME THE MOST INDEBTED IN THE WORLD
Australia has around 2 trillion in unconsolidated household debt relative to 1.6 trillion in GDP... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN CALLS FOR U.S. TRAVEL WARNING AFTER CALIFORNIA SHOOTING
Fischer urged Canberra to consider its formal travel advice for Australians planning to visit the U.S... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN ROCK ART MAY BE AMONG THE OLDEST IN THE WORLD, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH
Australian rock art may be among the oldest in the world, according to new research... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN TEENAGER DIES ON 18TH BIRTHDAY AFTER DRINKING HIGH-STRENGTH SPIRIT
An Australian teenager has died on her 18th birthday after drinking shots of a 95 percent alcohol strength spirit... READ MORE›
HOW CAN AUSTRALIAN HOUSEHOLDS GET AWAY WITH THE BIGGEST DEBTS IN THE WORLD?
It is an extraordinary fact that Australian households shoulder the biggest debts in the world, relative to our incomes... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN COALMINES ARE ONE OF RISKIEST INVESTMENTS IN THE WORLD - REPORT
Along with Chinese coal-powered utilities, those of the US and Australia faced the highest degree of environmental-related risk... READ MORE›
WILL AUSTRALIAN COMPASSION FOR REFUGEES IN EUROPE STRETCH TO THOSE COMING HERE?
The politicians from all parties calling for Australia to do more mean it too... READ MORE›
UN LASHES AUSTRALIAN 'CONTEMPT AND HOSTILITY' TOWARD ASYLUM SEEKERS
"Too often, governments try to avoid their legal obligations to refugees and victims of human trafficking by characterising them all as 'migrants', labelling victims of abuse as 'illegal'," it says... READ MORE›
EASTERN QUOLLS RETURN TO AUSTRALIAN MAINLAND AFTER MORE THAN 50 YEARS
Australian National University researchers have reintroduced wild eastern quolls from Tasmania into a Canberra sanctuary... READ MORE›
FROM PROMINENT NOB TO CHUNDA BAY, THIS AUSTRALIAN MAP ISN'T LIKE OTHERS
The company has also created maps for the US and Britain, but Australia remains the favourite for Mr Butler... READ MORE›
INTELLECTUALLY-DISABLED AUSTRALIAN COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA
In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES CLIMB IN TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD RANKINGS
The University of Melbourne was Australia's top performer in the Times Higher Education world university rankings at number 33 the same position as last year... READ MORE›
ALLEGED BOAT PAYMENTS PUT AUSTRALIA IN PEOPLE SMUGGLING BUSINESS
Mr Di Natale said Australia locks people up in offshore jails and turns boats back on the high seas risking lives... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN MUSLIMS BEING FORCED TO ASSIMILATE, ISLAMIC CONFERENCE TOLD
Hizb Ut-Tarir first held a conference like this one two years ago... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN TEENAGERS ATTACK ON POLICE WORKER CALLED ACT OF TERRORISM
The police in Australia have been on high alert since a lone gunman took hostages in a cafe in central Sydney in December last year... READ MORE›
MUSLIMS ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO FACE RACISM THAN OTHERS, AUSTRALIAN STUDY FINDS
A survey of Muslims living in Sydney, Australia's most populous city, f0und that a considerable majority... READ MORE›
'BLUE DRAGON' WASHED UP ON A BEACH IN AUSTRALIA CAUSES INTRIGUE
Mysterious 'Blue Dragon' washes up on Australian coast line... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR'S TURNBULL BOUNCE HITS WALL
RBC Capital Markets head of economics Su-Lin Ong agreed the changes in Canberra could short-circuit the business confidence malaise... READ MORE›
ELLEN DEGENERES BOMBARDED BY GREAT BARRIER REEF TWEETS FROM AUSTRALIAN MINISTER
The Australian environment minister, Greg Hunt, has bombarded Ellen DeGeneres with tweets after she appealed to Australia to do more to protect the Great Barrier Reef... READ MORE›
CROCODILE SNATCHES AUSTRALIAN WOMAN DURING NIGHT SWIM
Darwin-based crocodile expert Grahame Webb said while most crocodiles were found in rivers, swamps and other protected waterways, open beaches in northern Australia were not safe... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVERSE AFRICA FOREIGN AID CUTS
At the Australian National University the number of African students on scholarships has shrunk from 20 to 2... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN MP GEORGE CHRISTENSEN TELLS PROTESTERS A?? 'WE ARE AT WAR WITH RADICAL ISLAM'
In his speech in his hometown of Mackay he said he would not stand back and allow a culture of appeasement to fester in Australian society... READ MORE›
SEABED STUDY EXPANDS AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE TO PAST 50M YEARS
Climate change is happening, we are meddling with the climate system, Gallagher said... READ MORE›
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CHURCH SHOULD SAY SORRY OVER GAYS
Pope Francis says that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from homosexuals for the way they have treated them... READ MORE›
MCCAIN: OBAMA 'DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE' FOR ORLANDO SHOOTING
So the responsibility for it lies with President Barack Obama and his failed policies, McCain said... READ MORE›
OBAMA WARNS GRADUATES ABOUT TRUMP AND HIS POLITICS
Obama used his commencement speech at Rutgers University to illustrate a world view antithetical to the ideas espoused by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee... READ MORE›
RNC'S PRIEBUS TAKES DIM VIEW OF ANTI-TRUMP THIRD PARTY TALK
Some speculation has centered around 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who has been a frequent critic of Trump... READ MORE›
BUDGET-CONTROLLING REPUBLICANS BALK AT SENATE DEMOCRAT CALL FOR $1.9 BILLION TO FIGHT ZIKA
Republicans are demanding greater detail about the request the White House has responded by turning up the political heat... READ MORE›
OBAMA TO MAKE HISTORIC TRIP TO CUBA IN COMING WEEKS, OFFICIAL SAYS
Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shocked the world in December 2014 by announcing the former adversaries would move to normalize relations... READ MORE›
US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA 'TO VISIT CUBA IN COMING WEEKS' - SOURCES
US President Barack Obama is to pay a historic visit to Cuba in the coming weeks a senior administration official has said... READ MORE›
MANY HOUSE REPUBLICANS WANT REFUGEE RESTRICTIONS IN SPENDING BILL
Seventy-four of the 246 House Republicans signed the letter, which was circulated by Republican Representative Brian Babin... READ MORE›
OBAMA, CONGRESS HEADING FOR BUDGET SHOWDOWN OVER SYRIAN REFUGEES
A Senate Appropriations spokesman said Paris had heightened interest in the issue and the committee would address it in the coming weeks... READ MORE›
HOUSE REPUBLICANS UNITE TO TAP RYAN AS SPEAKER; NO DEFAULT NEXT WEEK AS BUDGET 'TRUCE' ADVANCES
That seemed to be a reference to demands hard-line conservatives have made to transfer more power over legislation from House leaders to rank-and-file lawmakers... READ MORE›
VOICE IS SOUGHT AT THE VATICAN ON REMARRIAGE
Homosexuality is regarded by the church as intrinsically disordered, a view that has left gay Catholics often sidelined, and gay couples feeling unacknowledged... READ MORE›
BEFORE POPE FRANCIS MET KIM DAVIS HE MET WITH GAY EX-STUDENT
Earlier on Friday, the Vatican said that Archbishop Vigano had arranged the pope's meetings in Washington, including the one with Ms. Davis... READ MORE›