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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong (left), Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend a press conference after their Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on May 26. © Reuters
“Outward Bound Australia is celebrating its 70th anniversary and, as part of the celebrations, last Sunday some 70 former students took a cruise on the Hawkesbury River to the site of the former Outward Bound school at Fishermans Point and nearby Bar Island,” reports Ken Bergin of Bensville. “With such a diverse gro…
Homicide detective Bree Sonter has seen some of the worst crimes imaginable during her 20-year policing career, but says her first three as a beat cop were the hardest.
Un grupo de partidarios rodean a una mujer con supuestos vínculos con el grupo extremista Estado Islámico a su llegada, con un niño, al aeropuerto de Melbourne, en Melbourne, Australia, el 7 de mayo de 2026. (Joel Carrett/AAP Image vía AP)
Among the rows of mourners that would visit the Gregory and Carr Funeral Home in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde, Will Edwards always stood out.
Tutorials have exploded to more than double the ideal size, student support has collapsed and class engagement has worsened significantly as Australia edges towards $100,000 degrees and universities suffer a crisis of public confidence.
More small businesses would be spared paying capital gains tax under concessions being considered by Labor to avoid a growing backlash, as analysis predicts house prices will fall in Sydney and Melbourne due to tax changes and interest rate rises.
John Strange barely kept it together when tuning in via Zoom to watch his son Ethan receive his first NSW Origin jersey on Tuesday.
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Nineteen Australian women and children linked to Islamic State have landed in Australia after more than seven years trapped in camps in Syria, and are expected to be allowed to quietly leave airports in both Melbourne and Sydney.
Taylor Swift’s love affair with Australian designers stretches back further than her relationship with her footballer fiance Travis Kelce.
Wests Tigers chairman and former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell has endorsed Peter V’landys becoming rugby league’s executive chairman as the future of the influential administrator grips two sports.
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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong (left), Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend a press conference after their Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on May 26. © Reuters
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A group of seven Australian women and 12 children linked to the Islamic State terrorist group have made travel plans to return home, authorities said on Tuesday, in what would be the second such Australian group to leave a Syrian refugee camp this month.
The NSW government’s leader in the upper house, Penny Sharpe, has been suspended from parliament for a fortnight, an unprecedented expulsion that marks a dramatic escalation in the power struggle between the Minns government and the Legislative Council crossbench.
Police commissioner acknowledges outcome causes ‘significant distress’ for 24-year-old Warlpiri man’s family and wider community
NEW DELHI — The foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the United States announced new initiatives Tuesday on maritime security, port infrastructure and energy, as the group known as the Quad seeks to deepen cooperation in the Indo-Pacific over concerns about China’s growing influence in the region.
As the foreign ministers of India, Japan and Australia lined up with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for a “family photograph” at the start of a meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday, their body language was stiff, with only the top Indian diplomat, S Jaishankar, trying to smile.
Almost 90 drones fell into the water of Sydney's Darling Harbour during a light festival on Monday.
A Perth man who made social media posts supporting the gunmen who attacked a Jewish community at Bondi Beach in December has pleaded guilty to racism and weapons charges.
Benafsha Hashimi fled the Taliban to Australia in 2021 and is determined to fight for the ICC to follow Fifa’s lead and recognise Afghanistan’s exiled players as the national side
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Environmentalists warn a major river in northern Western Australia and its inhabitants – including the endangered freshwater sawfish – are under threat from a groundwater management plan that will result in the equivalent of more than 31,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools being taken from the region each year.
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Cohort of 12 children and seven women who were held in a Syrian camp expected to fly into Sydney and Melbourne on Tuesday
PLC Resources has wrapped up the first-ever drilling campaign at its Rochefort gold prospect in Western Australia’s Murchison region, completing a reconnaissance reverse circulation (RC) program and demobilising the rig from site.
Commissioner says multiple witnesses reported ‘a dramatic increase in online hate messages’
Former ambassador to Washington Joe Hockey says he is worried about the possibility the United States will not supply nuclear-powered submarines to Australia as promised under the AUKUS pact because of faltering American production rates.
El ministro indio de Exteriores, S. Jaishankar, segundo por la izquierda, habla mientras la ministra australiana de Exteriores, Penny Wong, a la izquierda; el ministro japonés de Exteriores, Toshimitsu Motegi, segundo por la derecha, y el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, escuchan tras una cumbre …
A 52-year-old woman has been charged over the brazen alleged assault of a teenage female cafe worker in Melbourne’s north.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia on Tuesday said Jewish witnesses who appeared before it are facing online harassment and bigotry and issued a condemnation.
Australian activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla described their experience in Israeli detention as they arrived in Sydney, Australia.
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Everyone has a plan, Mike Tyson said, until they get punched in the mouth.
Australian police have arrested two men in connection with Dezi Freeman, the conspiracy theorist gunman who was shot dead by police after a seven-month manhunt in March.
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Sydney writer Nikki Goldstein was in a coma in St Vincent’s Hospital, her body succumbing to a life-threatening infection when Rabbi Eli Schlanger emerged outside her intensive care room.
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- The Kia Tigers announced Tuesday they have waived their struggling Australian shortstop Jarryd Dale.
The first teenager facing sentencing under Victoria’s “adult time for adult crime” laws was charged two hours after the law came into effect after carjacking a taxi driver while armed with a knife.
Two people have been arrested and will be interviewed by police as part of investigation into the movements of police killer Dezi Freeman.