Australia

Karate 1 - Premier: Iran earn two golds in Austria

Mar 02, 2020 03:56

Iran’s National Team have finished the Karate-one Premier League in Austria after grabbing two gold medals.
Australians hold pro-Assange rally ahead of hearing at UK court on US extradition bid

Feb 24, 2020 09:57

A group of people have gathered in the Australian city of Melbourne to protest the ongoing detention of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ahead of a hearing session at a UK court on his extradition to the United States.
Pro-Assange rally held in London ahead of hearings

Feb 23, 2020 08:23

Hundreds of people have staged a rally in support of Australian whistle-blower Julian Assange in the British capital of London, calling for his release.
Mid-air plane collision kills four in Australia

Feb 19, 2020 08:00

Four people were killed in a mid-air collision between two light planes in Australia on Wednesday, scattering debris across a rural area north of Melbourne.
ICC prosecutor says Australia’s offshore detention is ‘cruel, inhuman’

Feb 18, 2020 19:22

In a letter to the independent MP for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, the office of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor said conditions in the Australian-run camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island were dangerous and harsh, and an “environment rife with sporadic acts of physical and sexual violence committed by staff at the facilities.”
Australia's 'black summer' provides glimmer of hope for climate policy action

Feb 16, 2020 08:15

The issue of climate change has plagued leaders of Australia for the past decade, contributing to the downfall of at least three prime ministers. As the world’s biggest exporter of coal and liquefied natural gas and one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters per person, Australia has also come under fire from global climate activists and the United Nations for not taking more responsibility to curb global warming.
‘All bushfires in hardest-hit Australia state now contained’

Feb 13, 2020 09:01

All the blazes in Australia’s hard-hit state of New South Wales have been brought under control, firefighters said on Thursday, signaling the end of a months-long crisis that claimed 33 lives nationwide.
High Court rules aboriginal Australians not ‘aliens’, cannot be deported

Feb 13, 2020 05:10

In a four-to-three split decision the Australian High Court ruled that Aboriginal people with sufficient connection to traditional societies cannot be aliens, giving them a special status in Australian Constitutional law likely to have ramifications far beyond existing native title law.
Will a devastating bushfire season change Australia’s climate stance?

Feb 12, 2020 16:42

The 2019–20 fire season in Australia has been unprecedented. To date, an estimated 18 million hectares of fire has cut swathes through the bush – an area greater than that of the average European country and over five times the size of blazes in the Amazon. This reflects previous predictions of Australian science.
Australia’s marine animals are the fires’ unseen victims

Feb 08, 2020 10:37

As wildfires ravage Australia’s land and forests, so far killing an estimated one billion terrestrial animals, researchers worry marine and freshwater species will become invisible victims.