Australia

Research finds about 60% of Australian teenagers are evading their country’s landmark ban on social media accounts for children under 16.

Indonesian Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said Thursday that Google’s YouTube platform has not complied with Jakarta’s ban on social media accounts for children under 16 and could face “sanctions” if it does not begin meeting its obligations under the law.

Australia’s most-decorated living war veteran was apprehended and charged Tuesday over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

Australia’s online safety regulator has launched formal investigations into Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google’s YouTube amid concerns the tech giants may be failing to comply with the country’s landmark social media ban for children under 16 years old.

Germany has said it wants to field hundreds of unmanned fighter jets by 2029, and considers a range of German, European, and US projects.

A group of protesters inside a mosque in Sydney heckled leftist Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke on Friday morning.

An Iranian missile struck near the Al Minhad airbase in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), damaging a facility that houses Australian military personnel. No injuries were sustained during the attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday morning.

Two players from the Iranian women’s soccer team have joined a practice session with a professional club in Brisbane in their first publicly-shared appearance since it emerged they had been granted asylum in Australia.

The Iranian women’s soccer team is preparing to leave Malaysia for Oman in the next leg of their trip back to Iran.

Australia and Japan have rejected a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for warships to be sent to secure the Strait of Hormuz, confirming Monday they do not plan to join military operations in the contested zone.

Four members of the Iran’s women’s soccer team who accepted refugee visas to stay in Australia have decided to return to their homeland, an Australian government minister said on Sunday.

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.