An Australian woman has taken a video of herself chasing and threatening Iranian guards as they frantically searched for five Iranian women’s soccer team members who sought asylum in Australia.
A dramatic moment occurred on Tuesday, as a member of the Iranian women’s soccer team refused to board the team’s plane back to Iran at the last minute and joined several of her teammates in seeking asylum in Australia.
President Trump said war is “nearly complete” and warned Iran against trying to escalate, but it seems Tehran hasn’t got the message yet.
Australia responded Tuesday to a call for help from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as it faces bombardment from Iranian drones, despatching a sophisticated Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) E-7A Wedgetail spy plane and air-to-air missiles to the region.
President Donald Trump lauded Australia for handling asylum for members of the Iranian Women’s soccer team after he called on the country to do so.
Five members of Iran’s women’s soccer team are now safely under the protection of the Australian government after President Trump’s strong uring that they be given asylum.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called on Australia to work with Canada as middle-power “strategic cousins” rather than as competitors in negotiations with the world’s superpowers.
Australian National Party Senator Matt Canavan on Tuesday demanded stricter immigration requirements for his country after several mosques held memorials and prayer sessions mourning the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
A series of memorials and prayer sessions organized by mosques and Islamic institutions in Sydney and Melbourne mourning the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prompted outrage among politicians and the Iranian community in Australia, local outlets reported.
The economic damage of migration is pushing many more Australians to support the nation’s leading anti-migration politician, Pauline Hanson, and her political party, One Nation.
Canadian PM Mark Carney and Australian PM Anthony Albanese issued statements Saturday supporting U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for an “urgent meeting” of the United Nations Security Council, while Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchéz said that Madrid “rejects” strikes from the United States and Israel against the Islamist regime in Iran on Saturday.
Two environmental activists on Wednesday heckled Australia’s left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, interrupting his speech at an event in Melbourne.
Australia has paid for the first British-built parts of nuclear reactors to power a future SSN-AUKUS stealth submarine.
Eric Trump announced that the Trump Organization would be building a hotel in Australia, explaining that it represented the company’s “first venture into Australia.”
Australia will soon have its first Trump Tower after plans for the $1.5 billion Australian dollar project are set to go ahead, local outlets reported on Monday.
A television sports presenter has apologised after a clip of her slurring her way through a live interview from the Winter Olympics in Italy went viral, pleading for public sympathy by saying “I shouldn’t have had a drink.”
Australia issued a “temporary exclusion order” against one of the 34 Australian citizens linked to ISIS and held in a Syrian prison camp.
Crikey, that was awkward. A trainwreck live segment from the Winter Olympics to an Australian television network sparked equal measures of confusion and concern for the reporter involved Wednesday after it went to air.
The Australian government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.
A man accused of killing 15 people in a mass shooting at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach appeared in court Monday for the first time since his release from the hospital.
International tennis player Destanee Aiava announced Sunday she is quitting the sport, labeling it “racist, misogynistic, homophobic and hostile to anyone who doesn’t fit the mould,” in a statement posted on social media.
Antisemitism in Australia is “frightening and worrying,” Israel’s President Isaac Herzog despaired Thursday as he wrapped up a four-day visit Down Under that generated angry protests everywhere he went.
A metal detectorist in Australia found something quite special at a historic site in Victoria on January 24.
If your family is in trouble and they need help, what do you do? Help them. That is the ethos that drove a 13-year-old boy credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with a four-hour open ocean swim after the family was swept out to sea.
Egypt’s House of Representatives said on Sunday it will craft legislation to limit children’s access to social media as Australia has done.
A pair of kangaroos delivered chaos during the final stage of cycling’s Tour Down Under on Sunday after bouncing onto the Australian course and hitting several riders.
Australian authorities are warning people to stay out of New South Wales coastal waters after four shark attacks occurred in the past three days.
Australia´s Parliament on Tuesday passed anti-hate speech and gun laws proposed after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival.
An Australian woman who thought one of her dogs was sleeping on her awoke in the middle of the night only to discover something entirely different was napping on her chest.
Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said on Friday that some 4.7 million social media accounts have been shut down since her country’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect in December.
The left-wing Australian ambassador to the U.S. – who once called President Donald Trump a “village idiot” – is leaving his role a year early, fleeing just weeks after Trump issued a very public putdown of his own.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has removed approximately 550,000 user accounts across its platforms during the initial implementation phase of Australia’s new teen social media ban.
U.S. President Donald Trump is “a hero of the world” and a “strong man.” So says Ahmed Al-Ahmed, the hero who disarmed one of the attackers at Bondi Beach as the terrorists fired at a crowd celebrating a Jewish holiday.
Australia’s left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday finally caved to public pressure and announced a wide-ranging national inquiry into antisemitism. His capitulation comes 25 days after two terrorist gunmen opened fire on a Jewish holiday event at Bondi Beach in an Islamic State-inspired atrocity that claimed the lives of 15 people.
Australia’s social media ban barring children under 16 from using social media has sparked a global debate among parents about the need for similar measures in their own countries.
Australia’s New Years Eve celebration was a more solemn affair than usual this year, with a heavy security presence on the streets and a nationwide minute of silence for the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre.
An investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of shooting dead 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence that they were part of a “broader terrorist cell,” police said on Tuesday.
Families of the victims of Australia’s Bondi Beach massacre have been told there will be no national inquiry into antisemitism and possible failures in policing, intelligence and policy that preceded the deadly attack.
A rabbi’s car bearing a Chanukah decoration on its roof was set ablaze in Melbourne early Thursday morning in what is believed to be a targeted, antisemitic attack.
