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Twelve people, including one terrorist, were killed in what has been designated a terror attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening. An additional 29 people were injured and a second terror gunman was arrested after the local Jewish community was directly targeted, according to Australian media.

Danish govt secured coalition agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under the age of 15, the most sweeping yet by an EU nation.

An Australian skydiver’s parachute wrapped around a plane wing as he started his descent and he only managed to save himself by cutting the offending chute free.

Ministers from Australia’s leftist Labor government spent more than $500,000 of taxpayer funds on travel entitlements for their families since taking office in 2022, Sky News Australia reported on Tuesday.

The government of Malaysia announced on Wednesday that it would resume the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which famously went missing over a decade ago, as the Southern Hemisphere approaches the summer months.

A former Miss Universe Australia finalist joined her father to successfully fight off three brazen car jackers by hitting back as the potential thieves struck in broad daylight on a street in Melbourne.

Two 15 year-old Australian teenagers are challenging the country’s upcoming social media ban at the nation’s High Court, local outlets reported on Wednesday.

Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has been barred from the nation’s Parliament until 2026 after wearing a burqa and high heels in the upper house chamber as a protest against the Muslim head-to-ankle covering. She has firmly refused to apologize for her actions.

A man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism, an Australian magistrate said on Monday.

The Australian Senate was suspended for more than one and a half hours Monday after a member strode into the chamber wearing a burqa as part of her protest against the Muslim garment.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, has started notifying Australian users aged between 13 and 15 that their accounts will be shut down before the country’s upcoming social media ban for teens under the age of 16 takes effect in December.

Turkey will welcome next year’s U.N. COP31 climate doomer conference following Australia’s decision Wednesday to fold first on negotiations for hosting responsibilities after spending millions trying to win the bid.

Country music star Drew Baldridge praised men who pinned down a customer who was allegedly abusing and spitting on a female McDonald’s employee in Melbourne, Australia. “It was so inspiring to watch these dudes stand up for this woman,” Baldridge said, adding, “Our country needs more of that.”

Residents of Sydney, Australia, will be banned from cooking on certain outdoor gas barbecues in a move by the city’s woke mayor to save the planet by reaching net zero emission targets.

“Relying on gas is bad for the planet, bad for our finances and bad for our health.” So declared Clover Moore, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Australia, on Monday as she confirmed all new households will be required to be fully electrified from 2027 going forward with no alternative choices such as gas allowed.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the tech giant of misleading customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with the AI tool Copilot.

President Donald Trump signed a critical minerals deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday, a team-up explicitly intended to break China’s near-monopoly on mining and refining the valuable resources.

President Donald Trump slammed Australian Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd, who once called Trump “a village idiot,” during Monday’s bilateral meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the left-wing Labor Party.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a rare earths and critical minerals deal Monday at the White House during Trump’s latest bilateral meeting with yet another world leader.

President Donald Trump meets with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House on Monday, October 20.

On Tuesday, comedian Rosie O’Donnell said on Nine Network’s “Today Show Australia” that she hated President Donald Trump because “he’s a liar and a fraud and a fake.”

A group called Stand for Palestine Australia announced it would hold a “Glory to Our Martyrs” rally on October 7 – the anniversary of the horrifying Hamas terrorist attack that launched the Gaza war – in the western Sydney suburb of Bankstown.

Accounting and consulting giant Deloitte has announced it will offer a partial refund to the Australian government for a report that contained AI-hallucinated quotes and references to nonexistent research. This is just the latest example of a professional firm suffering massive embarrassment for the sloppy use of AI tools.

Police in Western Australia are conducting a crackdown on firearms owned by members of the “sovereign citizen” movement, an ideology that rejects the legitimacy of the government. A person believed to hold such views is wanted for the murder of two Victoria State police officers in August.

A delighted Hamas terrorist organization acknowledged the recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia in a Sunday statement, applauding the appeasement move as “an important step” and reward for its murderous anti-Israel activities.

House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Friday led a congressional letter to France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia ahead of next week’s United Nations General Assembly, warning that unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state would be “a reckless policy that undermines prospects for peace” and, as President Trump has branded it, a dangerous reward for terror.

Australia will spend an initial $8 billion to upgrade shipyard facilities for a future fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, the government said Sunday.

An Australian judge on Monday sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms.

Australian Football’s chief is backing Snoop Dogg’s planned performance at the league’s grand final event despite the attacks the rapper faces after he said he was annoyed at the LGBTQ representation in films, including Disney’s “Lightyear.”

A man has been charged after a SUV hit the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney on Monday, police said.

Australia will pay the small Pacific island of Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who the courts have ruled cannot be imprisoned indefinitely, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday.

Two police officers were killed and another seriously , the gunman remained at large as police scoured a vast remote area.

Australia gave Iran’s ambassador seven days notice to leave the country on Tuesday, accusing the diplomatic envoy of directing two antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

The sole survivor of a deadly lunch laced with toxic mushrooms said Monday he felt only half alive following the death of his wife and he continued to grieve the loss of his two closest friends.