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Marking Australia Day is like celebrating the Holocaust, a Melbourne politician said as her council scrapped a holiday it deemed offensive to Aboriginal people, in a move the government on Thursday labelled “extreme and divisive”.

Sex before marriage, recreational drugs, alcohol and children attending mixed-gender schools are just some of the sinful temptations a Muslim group has highlighted as ‘haram’ in a modern Western city.

The government of New Zealand has proposed an intelligence-sharing initiative, approved on Friday, with small Pacific island states meant to catch North Korean cargo ships disguised with flags from Vanuatu, Tuvalu, and other regional powers.

A 14-year-old Australian boy has changed his mind two years after he began transitioning into a woman with female hormones at age 12.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told reporters Wednesday that in a phone call with President Trump he emphasized the role China must play in containing North Korea’s nuclear threat and asserted that China is “the country with the biggest lever” to pull on sanctions.

Tensions are rising at some Australian universities amid concerns that the Chinese government is infiltrating teaching methods across the faculties, according to a report from news.com.au.

An ‘early child activist’ wants Father’s Day in Australia to be renamed ‘Special Person’s Day’ to be more “inclusive” to children in “special communities” who do not have fathers.

WASHINGTON – President Trump is considering tapping an admiral as the U.S. ambassador to Australia, according to a report.

Leaders around the world, prominently including U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, vowed to bring increased pressure to bear against North Korea after its reckless launch of a ballistic missile over Japanese territory on Monday afternoon. The question, as always, is exactly what kind of pressure can be applied, especially if China does not agree to punish its feral client regime more harshly.

An LGBT activist who blew up a hired van outside the Australian Christian Lobby’s headquarters disliked its “position on sexuality”, according to reports.

Calls to change the wording on colonial-era monuments in Australia have been slammed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as “Stalinist” exercises in rewriting history.

The Australian government is dealing with a bit of embarrassment over a photo in which Nick Warner, director general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, did a “fist pump” alongside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

An Islamist terror plot designed to blow up a plane in the skies over Australia using bombs concealed inside a Barbie doll and a meat grinder was foiled by Lebanon’s security services.

The United States and South Korea began the first stage of their regularly scheduled joint military exercise on Monday. This was followed by North Korea’s regularly scheduled threat of nuclear war if the drills proceed as planned.

Australian anti-mass migration senator Pauline Hanson has caused controversy after she wore the full face Islamic veil known as the burqa in a session of the country’s senate.

An Australian woman cheated death for the third time in three months when she narrowly avoided being directly caught up in the Islamist terror attack that convulsed Barcelona on Thursday.

A selection of high schools in Melbourne, Australia have been targeted by neo-Nazi groups and had racist flyers distributed across their campuses.

CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says if North Korea directly launches an attack on the United States mainland or any of its overseas territories including Guam, Australia will immediately join the conflict.

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has been forced to apologize for its coverage of the anti-Israel violence in Jerusalem at the start of the recent Temple Mount crisis.

Hizb ut-Tahrir, one of the largest Islamist campaign groups operating in the West, has dismissed the threat of terrorism as “statistically irrelevant”

The Algemeiner reports: This summer, 153 foreign volunteers from 12 different countries are enlisting in the IDF, according to data published on Sunday by the Israeli Defense Ministry. The group of new recruits — 122 males and 31 females — features

SYDNEY, Australia — Jewish leaders in Australia’s biggest city have reacted with dismay after a court rejected their application to build a new synagogue on the grounds that it could become a terrorist target.

At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting this weekend, Australia and Japan joined the United States in calling for a legally binding “code of conduct” for the South China Sea. More to the point, they want an internationally-recognized legal barrier to China’s conduct in the region.

The propaganda press is already trying to have a field day with the Trump telephone transcripts that were just released, showcasing his conversations with the President of Mexico and Prime Minister of Australia. They think the calls make him look

The New South Wales (NSW) branch of Australia’s Labor party has voted to recognize the state of “Palestine” amid a larger push for Palestinian statehood recognition on the federal level.

Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has been caught red handed erasing record-breaking cold temperatures from its data records.

Authorities in Sydney, Australia on Monday named four men arrested on suspicion of planning to down an international flight with a home made bomb.

Australian police have foiled what they claim was an ‘Islamic-inspired’ terror plot designed to bring down an aeroplane with a home made bomb.

White Australians will be extinct within 40 years because Australian men are too busy smoking, drinking beer and taking drugs to procreate, a Muslim businessman has warned.

Contents: UK to send warships to South China Sea, as China’s neighbors militarize; South China Sea countries build larger navies, preparing for war with China

An Obama-era refugee deal that will resettle more than 1,200 Middle Easterners in the U.S. and tens of thousands of their foreign family members in years to come is an apparent departure from President Donald Trump’s promise of putting “America First.”

The Trump Administration will resettle foreign refugees from the Middle East that are currently in detention centers in Australia.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for a five-day day trip to Europe late Saturday night that will include his first powwow with new French President Emmanuel Macron and about half a dozen meetings with Hungary’s controversial leader Viktor Orban in Budapest.

An Uber driver was charged on Friday with raping a 16-year-old passenger in the eastern Australian city of Brisbane, the second driver from the ride-hailing service to be charged with sexually assaulting a passenger in the city in a week.

Facebook has banned a Western Australia anti-obesity advertisement over concerns some users may find the ad offensive.

Brexit has received another boost from Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said Britain will have “big horizons and big opportunities” outside the EU and announced his desire for a quick trade deal.