Tag: Australia
Scientists develop “drifter” devices to help track floodwaters
Scientists from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT), have developed a series of portable devices, which in the event of…
Australia set to stamp out ‘modern slavery’
Australia is set to halt modern slavery by forcing 3,000 businesses to report what they are doing to avoid using…
Australia scores penalty to rescue a point from Denmark
Denmark manager Age Hareide said video assistant referees are taking the "charm" out of the World Cup after Australia scored…
Australia harbouring “Cold War mentality” – China
The Chinese ambassador to Australia on Tuesday accused it of harbouring a Cold War mentality and said “less bias and…
Apple fined $6.7 million over iPhone ‘bricking’ case
Australian court on Tuesday fined U.S. electronics giant Apple A$9 million (6.7 million dollars) for “bricking” .
France beat Australia 2-1 to stay on course
France have beaten Australia 2-1 on Saturday to begin their World Cup campaign on a good note.
Australia announces plan to tackle HIV-like HTLV-1 virus
Australian Government has announced plan to tackle the HIV-like blood-borne virus HTLV-1, found at astonishingly high rates in aboriginal communities…
Commonwealth Games: Australia warns missing African athletes to comply with visas
Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton said on Tuesday that a group of African athletes, who went missing during…
2018 Gold Coast Games: Commissioner heaps praises on Quadri, Abiodun for achievement
The Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Abayomi Oke, has eulogised the two state-born members of Nigeria’s table tennis…
Australians urge to remain alert as bushfires spread
Australian authorities urged people to remain alert on Monday as bushfires that have destroyed dozens of homes, killed cattle and…
Australian States, churches to start paying child sex abuse victims
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday asked states and territories, as well as churches, charities and other institutions to…
Australia to conduct inquiry into Facebook, Google over news content
Australia’s consumer regulator has announced it will conduct a broad-ranging public inquiry into how digital platforms like Facebook and Google…
Australian deputy PM urged to quit as party leader over extramarital affair
Australia’s embattled deputy prime minister, under pressure over an extramarital affair, faced a call to step down as leader of…
Australia approves exportation of medicinal cannabis
Australia Health Minister, Greg Hunt, on Thursday said Australia would export medicinal cannabis to other countries after the government approved…
Cabinet reshuffle: Australia creates super security ministry
Australia’s National Security Agencies will be concentrated under a powerful new Home Affairs ministry in a cabinet reshuffle announced by…
Australia to creep north by 1.8metres, no-one will notice
Australia is heading north riding the continental plate, which means the country’s mapping co-ordinates are being realigned approximately 1.8 metres…
Australian town terrorised by 200,000 bats
Residents in a small town in the north-eastern Australian state of Queensland said they have been “held hostage,” by 200,000…
Deadly snakes discovered in Australian post
Highly poisonous snakes have been discovered in the Australian post as wildlife Officers try to uncoil a reptile-smuggling racket, it…
Chile reach Confederation Cup Semi-finals after draw with Australia
Chile substitute Martin Rodriguez scored his first international goal to salvage a 1-1 Confederations Cup draw with Australia that seals…
Confederation Cup: Australia hold Cameroon to 1-1 draw
Australia kept their Confederations Cup hopes alive with the benefit of another controversial decision by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR)…
Germany overcome Australia 3-2 in Confederation Cup
World champions Germany beat Australia in Sochi to get their first Confederations Cup campaign since 2005 off to a winning…
Brazil demolish Australia 4-0 in international friendly
Diego Souza scored after just 11 seconds as Brazil beat Australia 4-0 in their friendly at the MCG.
Australian government tells Islamic leaders to condemn terrorism
The Australian government on Thursday urged Muslim leaders to be “loud in their condemnation” of Islamic extremism.
Australia expresses commitment to physically challenged in Nigeria
The Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Lehmann, on Thursday restated his government’s commitment to providing the needed support…
Survey: Australia has a problem with excessive drinking
More than three quarters of Australians believe their country has a problem with excessive drinking, with almost half admitting they…
Australia Announces Readiness To Host Commonwealth Games
The Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Lehmann, on Wednesday announced his government’s readiness to host the 2018 Commonwealth…
Anglican Church Silences Child Sex Abuse Victims
The Anglican Church in Australia on Friday admitted that it tried to silence child sex abuse victims, a Royal Commission…
5 Die in Australian plane crash
A light aircraft exploded Tuesday in a “massive fireball” with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as…
It’s a New Year in Australia!
A massive fireworks display has lit up Sydney Harbour as Australia’s largest city ushered in 2017. Some 1.5 million revellers…
Pharmaceutical giant fined millions for misleading customers
An Australian court on Friday fined British pharmaceutical giant Reckitt Benckiser a record six million Australian dollars (4.4 million dollars),…