Australia
Sydney, Australia (EFE).- A record number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales so far in 2025, state coroner Teresa O’Sullivan reported Wednesday, calling the event a «profoundly distressing milestone.» In a letter released Wednesday, O’Sullivan said...
Bangkok (EFE).- An Australian court on Wednesday ordered public broadcaster ABC to pay a fine of AU$150,000 (about $100,000) to journalist Antoinette Lattouf, who was unlawfully fired in 2023 after sharing a post critical of Israel on social media. The dismissal occurred three days into a five-day casual radio stint...
Sydney, Australia (EFE).- Millions of Australians will be at risk from rising sea levels in the coming decades, while heat-related deaths could quintuple if global warming is not limited, warned the government’s first National Climate Risk Assessment published Monday. The report describes a future of severe impacts, from extreme heatwaves...
Manila (EFE).- The Philippines and Australia are willing to deepen their defense ties through a cooperation agreement, the two nations’ defense chiefs said Friday, amid their largest joint military exercises to date, and in response to China’s «worrying» expansionism in the region. «Today we have (…) signed a statement of...
Sydney, Australia, Aug 17 (EFE).- A Sydney court found Brian Houston, founder of the Hillsong Christian church, not guilty Thursday of accusations of covering up his father’s sexual abuse of a child, Australian state television channel ABC reported. Houston, who resigned from his position as senior pastor last year over...
![China's Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian addresses the Australia-China Relations Institute, at the University of Technology Sydney, in Sydney, Australia, 24 June 2022. EFE/EPA/FILE/DAN HIMBRECHTS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT[AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT]](https://i0.wp.com/efe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/rss-efeb79984c245f65b96a64e95818f11fe34471f256aw.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1)
Sydney, Australia, Mar 22 (EFE).- Defense officials from China and Australia met in Canberra on Wednesday, in what was the first official meeting between the two parties since 2019. The development comes at the height of Australia’s security alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom (AUKUS). The Chinese...
Washington/Beijing, Mar 14 (EFE).- China on Tuesday accused the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia of undermining global peace and stability, a day after the trio unveiled a plan to acquire and develop nuclear-powered submarines. The submarine deal is part of the AUKUS trilateral security pact, signed in September...
New Delhi, Mar 3 (EFE).- The Foreign Affairs chiefs of the Quad, the alliance made up of Japan, the United States, Australia and India, denounced Friday the attempts to «increase tension» in the East and South China seas, without directly naming Beijing, and «debated» their responses to the Ukraine war....
Sydney, Australia, Feb 28 (EFE).- British company BAE Systems presented Tuesday its first unmanned vertical takeoff and landing vehicle manufactured in Australia, a device capable of carrying out surveillance, reconnaissance and air strikes against «targets hostiles» on land. The «SRINX,» as it has been called, can transport a payload of...
Sydney, Australia, Jan 11 (EFE).- Australian Cardinal George Pell, who in 2018 became the highest-ranking Catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse before subsequently being acquitted of the charges, has died at the age of 81, church representatives in Australia announced on Wednesday. Pell, who was Vatican’s chief...
Sydney, Australia, Nov 25 (EFE).- Australia’s former Prime Minister Scott Morrison «fundamentally undermined» the principles of responsible government by secretly assuming five ministerial positions during the Covid-19 pandemic, an independent investigation concluded Friday. However, the report added that Morrison’s appointment of himself as health, finance, industry, interior and treasury minister...
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