Australia’s parliament has passed a motion calling on the US and UK to release Julian Assange, ahead of a crucial legal hearing. Mr Assange will appear in front of the UK’s High Court next week for his final appeal against US extradition. The Australian citizen, currently in London’s Belmarsh Prison, is wanted in the US…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced his engagement to partner Jodie Haydon. He shared the news on social media, with a selfie of the couple, captioned: “She said yes”. Mr Albanese, 60, and Ms Haydon, 45, met at a business dinner in Melbourne in 2020. He is the first Australian prime minister to get…
Nearly half a million homes were left without power in the Australian state of Victoria after a storm knocked out parts of the network. Videos posted online showed torrential rain and gale-force winds uprooting trees and blowing entire sheds away. The wild weather has also hampered efforts to fight huge bushfires in the state’s west….
From the moment she slipped the Fearless record into her CD player as a 14-year-old, Georgia Carroll has been fascinated by Taylor Swift. A decade and a half on, she’s now touted as the only person in the world with a PhD on the superstar. Her assessment? “At the moment, it wouldn’t be going too…
Australian rugby union player Kurtley Beale has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a Sydney pub bathroom. Prosecutors alleged he had groped the 28-year-old woman and later forced her to perform oral sex in December 2022. But the Wallabies star, 34, said their encounter was consensual. His legal team argued the…
Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun has been given a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court, five years after he was arrested and accused of spying. The sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, according to Australia’s Foreign Minister. Dr Yang – a scholar and novelist who blogged about Chinese affairs – denies…
On opposite sides of the world, Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long each took one look at a scan and their hearts sank. In front of them was, to the untrained eye, an innocuous-looking brain. But these long-time friends – both leading skin cancer doctors – feared it held a ticking time bomb. Nestled in the…
There are fears for the welfare of 16,000 sheep and cattle which are stuck on a ship off the coast of Australia – due to events more than 10,000km away. The animals are on board the MV Bahijah in extreme heat. The ship abandoned its journey earlier this month through the Red Sea – where…
An Australian woman attacked by a bull shark in Sydney Harbour has thanked her “heroic” neighbours for coming to her aid. Lauren O’Neill was bitten during a sunset swim near a wharf on Monday. The 29-year-old’s leg was severely injured but surgeons worked through the night to save it from amputation, according to Sydney’s Daily…
An Australian MP has accused a media outlet of doctoring an image to enlarge her breasts and expose her midriff. A photo of Georgie Purcell appeared in a Nine News Melbourne bulletin on Monday after she criticised a Victorian government decision to allow duck hunting to continue in the state. On social media, Ms Purcell…