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Can’t protect Julian Assange: Australia

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said the US has said nothing to indicate they`re planning Julia...

China-Australia ties damaged: John Howard

Australia`s former PM John Howard has accused the federal government of causing "gratuitous damage" ...

Indian cabbie to be extradited to Australia

An Indian taxi driver who fled to his home country after being accused of raping a Melbourne woman o...

LinkedIn more popular than Facebook in Australia`s NSW

New South Wales users are least likely to stay connected through Facebook, despite the social networ...

Australia expels 2 Syrian diplomats over massacre

Friday`s massacre in Houla was one of the deadliest single events in the 15-month-old uprising again...

`Terrorists can hit $300 bn Australian oil rigs`

American investors fear that Australia`s USD 300 billion worth of oil and gas rigs are vulnerable to...

Will lead Labour Party in 2013 polls: Gillard

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday said she will lead the party in next year`s polls....

S Korea, Australia to hold first joint naval drill

The two-day drill beginning next Monday will mobilise some 10 surface warships and submarines.

Oz’s Gina Rinehart becomes richest woman in world

Western Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart is now the richest woman in the world after her wealt...

Tight British visas driving Indian students to Oz

Australian universities now benefit from the recent tightening of student visa rules and a drastic f...

Australia to give $200 mn aid to Pakistan

Australia will provide over USD 200 million in financial assistance under the Australia-Pakistan De...

‘Assange stands good chance to win Oz elections if runs for Parl’

Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange is believed to stand a good chance of winning an upper house seat ...

‘Pak, India can’t be treated equally on civil N- tech issue’

Australian High Commissioner Tim George has said Pakistan and India could not be treated equally for...

Uranium supply to India will be demand based: Oz

In December last year, Labor party, led by Julia Gillard, cleared the way for Australian uranium to ...

Australia seventh-worst polluter on Earth

Australia has been ranked as the seventh top polluter mainly due to carbon emissions, a report said.

Victoria police plan to deploy spy drones for surveillance

Victoria Police has confirmed it is assessing so-called unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for ‘potential...

`Oz: Attacks on Indian students declined sharply`

There was no evidence to suggest that attacks on Indian students in foreign countries were increasin...

Indian man guilty of manslaughter of wife in Aus

A 24-year-old Indian, who cut his wife`s throat eight times with a box cutter and left her bleeding ...

Australia: International student numbers rising

Over 183,000 international students were granted Australian visas in the nine months to March 31.

Australia intercepts two asylum seeker boats

The suspected asylum seekers are being transferred to the Christmas Island for security and health c...

`Firebomb Australia`

An online terrorism magazine has named Australia as a specific target for pyro-terrorism in its late...

Univ of Western Australia rocked by sex assault claims

One of Australia’s top universities has been embroiled in a scandal - involving claims of inappropri...

Australian man graduates at 97, again!

A grandfather of 12 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren, Stewart from Tea Gardens now plans to r...

Croc caught in Australia after eating nine dogs

A 4.4-metre crocodile that had eaten up to nine pet dogs has been hauled out of a river in Australia...

Australia commits NSG support for India

Supporting India`s entry into international technology control regimes, Australia on Thursday praise...

`Indians less likely to be attacked in Australia`

Last year, Australia faced intense criticism for its perceived failure to prevent racist attacks aga...

Indian-origin family of 4 found dead in Australia

An Indian-origin family of four, including two children, was found dead here on Tuesday and Australi...

Australian mining magnate to run for Parliament

Mining magnate Clive Palmer, one of Australia`s richest business people, said Monday he hoped to run...

Australia grounds Black Hawk helicopter fleet

Australia has grounded its Black Hawk helicopter fleet after an army aircraft experienced engine tro...

Rock defects below earth surface impact quakes

Defects in rocks lying below the earth`s surface can modify the impact of seismic waves generated by...

Australian woman wins case for injuries during sex

An Australian woman has won a court battle to seek workers` compensation after being injured while h...

NATO says Australia`s Afghan pullout part of war

The announcement was "fully within the framework" of a roadmap agreed by NATO and its partners in Af...

Australia spells out early Afghanistan exit plan

The Australian PM said the troops withdrawal process would be completed by the end of 2013.

Australia further eases Myanmar sanctions

Australia would lift financial restrictions and travel bans against 260 people in Myanmar, including...

Afghan jailed for raping two women in Australia

An Afghan asylum seeker in Australia, who said he did not understand the concept of consensual sex, ...

Influential Australian Greens leader to quit politics

Bob Brown`s resignation stunned Greens lawmakers, but will not affect their agreement to support the...

Sea level in the southwest Pacific rising: Study

Southern Australia and nearby Pacific nations have been warned of a rise in sea levels that could ha...

Australia may expel Syria`s Ambassador

Australia may expel Syria`s Ambassador to Canberra in response to ongoing violence in that country, ...

Australian military hit by sex scandal

The Australian military has been rocked by a sex scandal after a 23-year-old soldier was arrested ...

Australian military faced with another sex scandal

The Australian military is facing another sex scandal just weeks after it handed down wide-ranging r...

Oz PM urges students to be careful on internet

Gillard described the online video offering sexual favours posted by five Adelaide schoolgirls, as a...

Snake on plane: Pilot forced to land

An Australian jet pilot was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff as a snake a...

First US Marines arrive in Australia

The deployment of Marines to northern Australia has sparked concern in China.

Two Indians drown in Australia

Two Indians drowned at a northern New South Wales beach in Australia while swimming with a group o...

S Africa, Australia in celestial spat for new telescope

South Africa and Australia are now squaring off in a new contest: to win the right to host the world...

Woman finds maggots in Qantas snack

An Australian woman said on Monday how she was horrified to discover live maggots in a snack she wa...

Australia settles patent suit in US wi-fi case

Australia`s scientific research agency has reached a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement in...

Male bottlenose dolphins engage in extensive bisexuality

An unprecedented open society of bottlenose dolphins that have an extremely complex, free and open l...

Australian watchdog accuses Apple of mis-selling iPad 4G

IT giant Apple has been accused by Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) of misleading...

US could fly spy drones from Oz territory

Aiming to boost defence ties with the US, Australia may allow its territory to be used as a base for...

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