Australia’s left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has drawn equal measures of disgust, revulsion and incredulity after he gave an interview full of crude sexual innuendo detailing everything from bedroom antics with his wife to counterpart Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi and her “beautiful melons.”
Australia and Vanuatu signed a long-awaited bilateral security and economic treaty Monday that prevents China creating a military base on the South Pacific island nation.
Australia’s social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers’ scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard used two agents who once lived in Australia to direct arson attacks against Jewish targets in Sydney and Melbourne, the head of Australia’s domestic spy agency said on Wednesday.
Don’t look now, but the United States might be legitimately good at soccer.
British actress Emaa Hussen was charged in Sydney after allegedly trying to smuggle roughly $208 million worth of methamphetamine into Australia through concealed “charcoal” shipments coming from Ghana, outlets reported.
The U.S. is boosting its war-ready military footprint in Australia by lifting deployment of weapons, ammunition, personnel and vehicles alongside the pre-positioning of nuclear submarines as China works at unsettling the Asia Pacific region to its own advantage.
A mass shooting of thousands of wild horses from helicopter gunships in the Snowy Mountains of Australia is set to start this week as protesters cry for an end to the practice that delivers death from above in a bid to protect “indigenous plants.”
Personal crimes such as rape and sexual assault are three times higher in gun-controlled Australia than in the USA, a report in the Spectator/Australia on Wednesday details.
A 35-year-old spear fisherman was killed Saturday during a shark attack off Michaelmas Island in Australia. The loss has shaken his family and community members while adding yet another fatality to the country’s ever-growing list of shark attack victims.
Australian authorities have smashed a ring of illegal insect dealers led by one secretive commercial breeder specializing in the Madagascar hissing cockroach as part of the country’s largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.
Thermal imaging drones, sniffer dogs, police, and a growing army of volunteers are being deployed in the Australian state of Queensland after a nefarious Tasmanian Devil escaped its zoo enclosure to begin life on the run.
A university student saved a recent concert for 2,500 people in Sydney, Australia, thanks to his incredible sight-reading abilities.
The U.S. has committed to selling Australia three in-service Virginia-class nuclear submarines while pivoting from the planned acquisition of one new and two in-service Virginias as part the multi-billion-dollar AUKUS submarine deal.
Malaysia began enforcing its social media ban for children on Monday, requiring all social media platforms with 8 million or more users to implement age-verification systems that will prevent people under 16 from creating accounts.
Rayann El Houli, part of the “ISIS Brides” group of Australian women, renounced the Islamic State and “violent jihad” her lawyer claimed during a Monday court appearance.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is still looking for a Pennsylvania woman who faked a terminal cancer diagnosis to swindle friends and family out of thousands of dollars.
China kept a low profile at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, sending only a group of academics instead of top military officials.
Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said on Thursday that the quarantine period for passengers from the Hondius, the cruise ship that was afflicted by a hantavirus outbreak in April, will be extended from June 5 to June 23.
The foreign ministers of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a group commonly known as the Quad, joined Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday to announce new security and energy initiatives for the Indo-Pacific region to counter the growing influence of China.
Australian Federal Police officers on Thursday arrested three women with deep ties to the Islamic State right after disembarking from a plane as they tried to return to the country — ending the police’s roughly decade-long wait for the opportunity
Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced on Wednesday that a group of 13 women and children linked to Islamic State fighters have booked flights back to Australia after being released from a prison camp in Syria. Burke said the group would receive no help from the Australian government, and in fact some could expect to be arrested upon arrival.
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, told an Australian audience Thursday she had been the target of relentless online bullying since she married into the Royal family.
Research finds about 60% of Australian teenagers are evading their country’s landmark ban on social media accounts for children under 16.
Left-wing Australian PM Anthony Albanese said Canberra has not received a request from the United States to help with its “unilateral” blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as announced by President Donald Trump.
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.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday that his government will implement a ban on social media for children under 15, beginning on January 1, 2027.
Australia’s most-decorated living war veteran was apprehended and charged Tuesday over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
Mizanur Rahman Azhari, an antisemitic radical Islamic preacher from Bangladesh who has praised Adolf Hitler and railed against Jewish people in the past, was deported from Australia on Wednesday.
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.
Australia has flung open its borders and taken in a record number of migrants in the past year, despite left-wing Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government’s solemn promise to cut back on fresh arrivals.
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.
