15 Aug 2018; DW: Australia's prime minister and politicians from across the political spectrum on Wednesday condemned a speech by a freshman senator calling for only white immigration and a "final solution" to end Muslim immigration.
14 Aug 2018; AFP: A former Australian archbishop convicted of concealing abuse by a notorious paedophile priest in the 1970s was confronted by enraged victims outside a courthouse Tuesday after a judge spared him jail and ordered he serve his sentence at home.
Philip Wilson became one of the highest-ranked church officials convicted of covering up child sex abuse when he was found guilty in May of concealing crimes by priest Jim Fletcher in the Hunter region of New South Wales state.
14 Aug 2018; AFP: Austria's capital Vienna has beaten Melbourne to be ranked the "world's most liveable city" in a new annual survey released Monday, ending the southern Australian city's seven-year reign.
It is the first time a European metropolis has topped the annual chart compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit which identifies the best urban playgrounds to live and work in.
A Woolworths customer in Cairns was charged 8 cents for bringing his own bags to carry his shopping.
Woolworths charged him 1 cents per bag, which his docket shows as ‘BYO Bag’ at $0.01 each, totalling 8 cents for 8 bags.
7 Aug 2018; DW: The EU foreign affairs minister encouraged companies to ignore US President Donald Trump's threats on doing business with Iran. She said it's up to Europeans to decide who they trade with.
Speaking in Wellington alongside New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters on Tuesday, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini directly called on EU companies to defy US President Donald Trump.
Tehran, July 28, IRNA - US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis dismissed a recent report suggesting the Trump administration was preparing to launch attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities as “fiction.”
CANBERRA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Property prices in Australia have fallen over the past 12 months for the first time in six years, a report has revealed.
The national median property price fell one percent in the 12 months to the end of June 2018, according to a report published by property group Domain on Thursday, the first time prices have fallen in a 12-month period since June 2012.
It comes on the back of falling prices in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two biggest and most expensive cities.
Brisbane, Jul 7, 2018; An extremist New Zealander pastor, who trespassed a mosque and abused the worshippers in .. last Wednesday has been arrested, and is set to be deported.
Three men, including 31-year old pastor Logan Robertson, are being charged with public nuisance and trespass at the Kuraby Mosque and the Darra Mosque.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the New Zealand national was taken into custody yesterday evening and has been placed in immigration detention.
A group of men went to the Kuraby mosque in southern Brisbane on Wednesday, asked permission to be let inside to film what was going on, and then started abusing and threatening the worshippers.
“They started saying Islam is a cult and they started going through the books,” and called the worshippers “uncivilised animals”, said Ali Kadri, spokesman of Islamic Council of Queensland.
He said the men threatened a 65-year-old man and told a 15-year-old boy, “you don’t belong in this country, you bloody terrorist, and we should burn this place down to the ground”.
Adelaide's Archbishop Philip Wilson, has been convicted and sentenced to 12 months detention for concealing child sex abuse.
Wilson was found guilty of failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse against paedophile priest Father Jim Fletcher, who died in jail in 2006.
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