Tag: Australia

British drug mule apprehended at Sydney airport for being in possession of bottles of MDMA faces court.

With fresh rumours that terrorists have come up with new ways to pass explosive devices through customs, airports in the USA and UK have started taking extra precautionary measures. However, Australia will not be following suit yet.

A video showing shocking racial slurs filmed on a Sydney train this month and uploaded to YouTube has had over 395,000 views prompting more than 1,300 comments. Unfortunately it is not an isolated incident in Australia.

The father of a 3-year-old Sri Lankan girl has begged with immigration control’s Scott Morrison for information about the 'missing' boat of asylum seekers on which his daughter is believed to be.

Chairman of UK’s Committee on Climate Change lambasts government’s carbon tax repeal as “reckless and deeply retrograde”.

A report compiled by the United Nations drops jaws as it reveals that Commonwealth countries top the world for cocaine and ecstasy use.

British presenter Vanessa Feltz claims Rolf Harris groped her live on TV, while Irish singer Linda Nolan claims the disgraced entertainer assaulted her backstage.

A group of asylum seekers being held on an Australian vessel at sea will not be returned to their native Sri Lanka without 72 hours' notice.

Tony Abbott has used a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rally behind the trading giant takes on a stronger presence in the Asia-Pacific.

New confidence for jihad as another Australian joins their ranks and their new “caliphate” prompts two notorious Australian Jihadist to issue threats to Australian troops via Twitter.

Tony Abbott’s chief indigenous advisor has called the PM's reference to Australia being "unsettled" before British colonisation as "silly while Nova Peris has branded them as "highly offensive".

The federal government will spend $300 million so Australian warships are better protected against the threat of anti-ship missiles.

A landmark report looking at the state of the world's tropics predicts Australia's tropical zone will expand by about 200 kilometres every 25 years.

Fraudsters stole the identity of Australia’s military head to scam unsuspecting women out of money through cyber romances.

Rolf Harris will likely be jailed when he is sentenced on Friday. Meanwhile, further allegations against the disgraced entertainer come to light as his honours are purged.

An asylum-seeker detained at the Manus Island refugee camp is suing the Australian government and its outsourced security company after a riot in February left the man with severe head trauma.

Revelations of terrible abuse at Salvation Army homes in the 1960s and 1970s have affected public generosity towards the church's fundraising efforts.

Australian not-for-profit groups with a tech-savvy bright idea for making the world a better place could win some serious tech support from Google.

A former Marist Brother head has denied to an inquiry that his role was to conceal rather than expose abuse.

The RBA is closely watching the debate raging over the budget with its monthly board meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

A woman claims she was working at a party for Michael Parkinson in 2005 when Rolf Harris groped her in front of his wife Alwen.

Rolf Harris has been handed 12 unanimous guilty verdicts following in his trial over indecently assaulting four girls in Britain between 1968 and 1986.

Jurors in the Rolf Harris trial are continuing their deliberations for an eighth day as the entertainer waits in court for the verdicts.

The Great Barrier Reef and Uluru are getting less tourist attention and the Australian War Memorial is now named among the top 25 global tourist destinations.

The Australian Labor party says the government's assertions that the welfare system is unsustainable are exaggerated.

Online reports say that Apple is looking for language engineers who are experts on ‘Australian English’ (or Strine - as we like to call it) to assist with the programming of their voice activated application Siri.

A representative of Aboriginal delegates expressed their delight in having the remains of an ancestor returned to Australia from Chicago's Field Museum in Chicago.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) proposes that cigarettes sales should be permanently banned to those born in the 2000’s while the British Medical Association (BMA) passed the motion this week.

The price of abolishing the carbon tax might be keeping Australia's car enthusiasts happy.

A week after first retiring to consider its verdict, the jury in Rolf Harris's child sex abuse trial has come back to the judge with questions.

Clive Palmer and former US vice-president Al Gore presented as an odd couple but they had nothing but admiration for each other as they talk over carbon tax and emissions trading scheme.

SPECIAL REPORT | Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Australian’ has been accused of conspiring with Big Tobacco to dissuade the UK and Ireland from introducing plain packaging legislation, with an apparently ‘misleading’ report claiming Australia’s landmark laws are failing.

A British national, only known as Natalie, told reporters of her terrifying ordeal as she was driven into the Outback by a mysterious unnamed Australian and ‘left for dead’ in the same place where the Wolf Creek horror movie was filmed.

The Abbott government accepts the UN's rejection of its application to remove 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage Area.

The jury in the UK trial of Rolf Harris is set to return for a fourth day of deliberations.

Jihadi recruitment video features a British national and another man believed to be a radical Australian.

The Abbott government has dismissed reports that the four pillars banking policy is at risk as Labor says any change would be irresponsible.

Tony Abbott warns that nobody should underestimate the threat posed by terrorists bearing down on the Iraqi capital as it is revealed that a small contingent of Australian troops have already been sent to 'bolster security' at the embassy there.

An Australian funeral director endured a 4 hour-long road trip with a portly body in her hearse. Her hefty companion then had to spend the night in her hearse after a morgue turned her away saying he would not fit in their fridge.

Julian Assange used the second anniversary of his entering the Ecuador's embassy in London to attack both the US and Australian governments.

The Rolf Harris jury has been told not to give undue weight to a Channel 7 make-up artist's claim that the entertainer was known as "the octopus".

A poll conducted by the Lowy Institute claims that Australia and the UK are no longer best mates. While Brits are still on our Christmas card lists we are actually chumming up with the Yanks.

Westminster Abbey in London will soon be the permanent home of a kangaroo engraved stone commemorating Arthur Phillip.

While the Abbott government struggles to get support for a GP co-payment, nurses in the UK will debate whether Britain should introduce such a charge.

On Tuesday Aussies responded to the Twitter invitation by British band Coldplay to help them with the Sydney filming of the video for their new single 'A Sky Full of Stars'.

Australian fans of pop sensation Miley Cyrus can prepare themselves for a good dose of twerking, tongue flashing and less than skimpy outfits when the pop star tours Down Under in October.

Linguistic experts believe Britons are turning up their noses at typical Australian slang like barbies, tinnies and sunnies.

Honeymooning Nomad | Of course my friends and family top the list, but there's something else you don't really find in the UK that this Australian misses dearly and I can't wait wrap my laughing gear around it.

Treasurer Joe Hockey is not worried about the latest opinion poll, saying the government was elected to fix the economy.

Defence lawyer Simon Ray claims the prosecution in Rolf Harris's child sex trial set out "with vigour and enthusiasm" to destroy the artist's reputation.