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Australians and New Zealanders paused to remember the fallen of all wars today in commemorating a solemn ANZAC Day tradition.

Sri Lankan officials say at least one of the suspected radical Islamic terrorists who targeted Christians and tourists on Easter Sunday studied in Britain and Australia.

Sydney’s Catholic archbishop said Thursday that Christians around the world are “under siege” and hopes the fire at Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral was not a deliberate attack as others have been.

Two Muslim brothers who claimed Australian law did not apply to them or their religion have been fined for contempt of court.

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has ordered its sailors not to march in pre-dawn darkness on the way to a traditional ANZAC Day commemoration service because of health and safety concerns.

Chinese government censors have shut down dozens of major social media accounts for publishing “politically harmful information,” the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday. Some of these accounts had millions of followers.

Think of women and take a “gender perspective'” during bombing operations in war zones, pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have been told.

Australia’s parliament on Wednesday passed a strict new social media law that could fine tech companies, or even jail their executives, if they allow violent material to be posted on their sites or fail to remove it quickly enough after complaints are filed. An op-ed at Sky News on Thursday conceded that China might have had the right idea all along about censoring and controlling the Internet.

A new Australian law could mean that executives of major social media firms could face huge fines — or even jail time – for failing to remove violent videos and images from their networks.

Daytime TV host Ellen Degeneres called for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei in a social media post this week, following the nation passing new Sharia laws punishing homosexuality by death.

The Sultan of Brunei’s declaration that homosexuality will be punishable by death under stricter adherence to Islamic Sharia Law has sparked Australians to call for Brunei’s national air carrrier to be banned from skies Down Under.

The Wall Street Journal published an article recently which outlines how New Zealand and Australia are pushing for harsher regulation of Facebook following the recent Christchurch shooting.

Australia’s top cyberwarrior revealed Wednesday that his country actively participated in the electronic war against the Islamic State group in Syria, degrading their communications during military operations and actively stopping people seeking to join the extremist group.

Jewish-Australian military veteran Avi Yemini claims that Facebook has banned him from its platform following his publishing of an exposé on Comedy Central comedian Jim Jefferies.

Australia could jail Big Tech company executives who fail to remove extremist content from their platforms, according to a report.

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd told National Public Radio (NPR) on Thursday morning that Breitbart was to blame for inciting last week’s terror attacks at two mosques in New Zealand, in which 50 people were murdered.

New Zealand is commemorating the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings by broadcasting the Islamic call to prayer nationwide during a minutes’ silence, with the Prime Minister and many other non-Muslims donning veils for the occasion. 

A mother in the Australian state of Queensland who took her two daughters to Somalia for genital mutilation has been warned she faces four years in prison for her crime.

Slate has taken up the mantra of collective guilt, insisting in an article this week that “all white Australians” are somehow implicated in the recent Christchurch mosque shootings.

A teenager smashed an egg over an Australian lawmaker during a Saturday press conference after the politician blamed the New Zealand mosque shooting on Muslim immigration.

Software giant Oracle has accused Google of spying on millions of people and developing profiles containing “intimate lifestyle details” of Google users.

An Australian judge has sentenced Cardinal George Pell to six years in prison for sexual abuse, with the possibility of parole after three years and eight months.

Jumping out of a plane, or off the side of a cliff, and paragliding to the ground, requires a lot of planning. There are chutes that need to be packed, weather has to be factored in, and, if you’re in Australia, you need to prep for kangaroos that will violently assault you upon landing.

Judging decades-old sex abuse charges with no supporting evidence risks turning the presumption of innocence into a “legal fiction,” according to an analysis Monday of the case of Australian Cardinal George Pell.

Google denied it held a monopoly on “online searches” and advertising following calls from an Australian regulator for “increased scrutiny” and greater monitoring of Big Tech companies.

Indian warplanes struck what India described as a “terror training camp” in Pakistani territory in the early hours of Tuesday morning, moving the nuclear nations closer to a military confrontation.

A woman flying from Australia to Scotland survived a real-life snake on a plane encounter after discovering a python in her shoe.

Climate change is drying out eucalyptus leaves, Australian news reported Sunday, which are consequently “losing their ability to hydrate koalas.”

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is one step closer to returning home after receiving an Australian passport, according to a UK newspaper report.

The Austrailian government announced last week that the first mammal on earth is now extinct because of climate change.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison informed his parliament on Monday that a “sophisticated state actor” attacked their computer system in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to harvest information.

In an interview with China’s state-run Global Times on Monday, billionaire developer Huang Xiangmo decried Australia’s cancellation of his residency papers and dismissed allegations of influencing Australian politics on behalf of Beijing as “prejudiced and groundless.”

Australian media reported on Wednesday that businessman Huang Xiangmo has been effectively expelled from the country. Xiangmo was a permanent resident who applied for citizenship, but now he does not even have an Australian passport.

An Australian judge who said Muslim leaders should publicly denounce “belligerent” verses of the Koran has been warned not to offer Islamic scriptural guidance.

Australian Muslims should publicly denounce “belligerent” verses of the Koran that have been used by Islamic extremists to underpin terrorism, a judge said Thursday while jailing two terror-plotters.

The UK and Israel confirmed a post-Brexit free trade deal Wednesday with International Trade Secretary Liam Fox saying the two countries have shaken hands on a future agreement.