Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Australia is being “inundated” with white South Africans who have fled their farms, repeating a baseless conspiracy theory that white people in South Africa are being systematically murdered and their land expropriated. The US […]
Australia faces a world more volatile and dangerous than it has known for more than four decades, and “major-power conflict is no longer unimaginable”, a review of the country’s intelligence agencies has found. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, commissioned the
One of US president Donald Trump’s top picks for the Pentagon says selling submarines to Australia under the Aukus agreement poses a “very difficult problem” for the US and could endanger its own sailors. Elbridge Colby, Trump’s nominee for under
Chinese warships have undertaken an apparent live-fire drill in the seas between Australia and New Zealand, diverting commercial flights in the skies above. The Chinese navy notified the Australian defence department shortly before the drill on Friday. Three People’s Liberation
The Sydney restaurateur Alan Yazbek has escaped conviction after displaying a swastika at a pro-Palestinian rally. The magistrate, Miranda Moody, did not record a conviction against the 56-year-old on Tuesday, instead handing him a 12-month conditional release order in the
The Australian government has restricted foreign diplomats bringing domestic workers into the country, a UN anti-slavery expert has reported, after two recent federal court cases exposed systemic exploitation a judge described as “slave-like working conditions”. The United Nations special rapporteur
Australia needs a specialist envoy dedicated to freeing its citizens arbitrarily detained by rogue nations, a senate committee inquiry has recommended. The practice of “hostage diplomacy” is an increasing threat, the senate committee found, and Australians should be specifically warned
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Hīkoi members before the ‘Beehive’ – the executive wing of Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament buildings – on Tuesday morning. A hīkoi has travelled for nine days
A police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home – after which she died – said he tried to give her “every opportunity to drop the knife” she was carrying, but she had “made her intent clear:
A New South Wales police officer who allegedly tasered a 95-year-old great-grandmother has formally pleaded not guilty to a charge of manslaughter in a Sydney court. Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White, 34, spoke only to enter his plea in
