Australia promises 30 more troops for NATO’s Afghanistan mission
SYDNEY – Australia will send an additional 30 troops to join the NATO-led training and assistance mission in Afghanistan, bringing its total deployment there to 300, Defence Minister Marise Payne…
Australian drug convict Schapelle Corby returns home from Bali
SYDNEY – Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has arrived in Australia after completing a twelve-and-a-half-year sentence for smuggling marijuana to Indonesia, a case which received huge media attention and soured ties…
Australia’s Aborigines seek treaties in drive for more than symbolic change
Australian Aboriginal leaders have agreed to seek treaties with national and state governments as preferable to symbolic acknowledgement of the indigenous minority in Australia‘s constitution. Australia has struggled for decades…
Thousands of foreign students in limbo as Careers Australia collapses
SYDNEY – Careers Australia Group, a provider of vocational education and training, has gone into voluntary administration after losing government funding, putting 1,100 people out of work and 15,000 students in…
Asylum seekers at Australian-run detention centre told to leave or miss US resettlement
SYDNEY – Asylum seekers at an Australian-run offshore detention centre in Papua New Guinea must move to a community facility in order to be eligible for a refugee swap deal…
Rugby-Australia to set up national coaching think-tank
MELBOURNE – Australia will set up a National Coaching Panel to oversee coaching development and education in a bid to strengthen the grass-roots and return the Wallabies to the top…
Dozens of aboriginal Australians walk out of meeting on their future
SYDNEY – Dozens of Australian indigenous leaders have walked out of a national meeting on their future, in protest against a plan to accept constitutional recognition, indigenous leader Geoff Clark…
Kidnapped Australian freed in Yemen after Oman mediation
An Australian man held captive for seven months has been freed by his kidnappers in Yemen and has been taken to neighbouring Oman, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said. The unnamed…
Australian police did not act fast enough to deadly siege: coroner
SYDNEY – Australian police failed to respond quickly enough to the threat posed by a gunman responsible for a 16-hour siege at a Sydney cafe in 2014 in which three…
South Australian woman arrested with terrorism charges
A 22-year-old South Australian woman has been charged with being a member of the terrorist organisation Islamic State, after an operation by the state’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team. The team…
