australia
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Australia will build Boxer Heavy Weapon Carriers for Germany under an over A$1 billion ($664.5 million) agreement. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in a tweet on Monday, confirmed that Australia has signed an “in-principle” agreement to build the carriers for Germany in Queensland. “The project will create well-paid manufacturing jobs for Australia. And mean a boost…
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Kathleen Folbigg spent twenty years in prison being demonised for killing her four children, until a Spanish scientist helped to free her, and expose one of Australia’s biggest injustices. An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison for killing her four children was pardoned and released on Monday following an inquest into her guilt.…
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Australia is preparing to rescue and repatriate up to 60 ISIS brides and their children who have languished for years in Syrian detention camps. The rescue plan, which successive governments have wrestled with for years, will see the return of 16 women and 42 children held in al-Roj detention camp, near the Iraqi border. Kamalle…
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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong called on China to use its influence to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Wong spoke to reporters Thursday after a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where she held a ‘constructive’ meeting with her Chinese counterpart. Australia…
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday revealed the first ministry of his new Labor government, featuring record 13 women in the 30-member team. Linda Burney will become the first indigenous woman — and second indigenous person — to serve as the minister for Indigenous Australians. Ed Husic and Anne Aly will become the first…
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Under an updated timetable, Australian fighter jets would be armed with advanced U.S.-manufactured air-to-surface missiles by 2024, three years earlier than planned. Its navy frigates and destroyers would be equipped with Norwegian-made missiles by 2024, five years ahead of schedule. Australia also has plans to build its own next-generation missiles, including hypersonics, under new defense…
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The Dutch and Australian governments have launched a legal case against Russia to hold it accountable for its alleged role in shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014, which led to the deaths of all 298 people on board. The case has been filed at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal, Canada.…
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Australia revoked Novak Djokovic‘s World Tennis visa for the second time, AND FOR THE RIGHT REASON, BBC reported. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision means Djokovic must be deported. The tennis player was in Australia to participate in the Australian Open, but entered the country on January 6 without being vaccinated, citing a permit granted on the basis of a medical exception. His visa was revoked at the border on…
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Novak Djokovic’s lawyers filed court papers Saturday in his challenge against deportation from Australia that show the tennis star tested positive for COVID-19 last month and recovered, grounds he used in applying for a medical exemption to the country’s strict vaccination rules. The No. 1-ranked Djokovic was denied entry at the Melbourne airport late Wednesday…
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An Australian woman who dodged multiple calls from what she suspected to be scammers was shocked when she finally answered the phone and learned she had won a nearly $1.5 million lottery jackpot. The Launceston, Tasmania, woman told The Lott officials she had been avoiding their phone calls because she didn’t recognize the number. “This is crazy!…
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A Melbourne woman found dead in Georgia is suspected to have been murdered, with a friend revealing chilling details of her final phone call. Shanae Edwards, 31, is believed to have been an English teacher in Tbilisi, whose body was found just outside the city on July 31. The discovery followed an hours-long search on…
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Australia’s largest city Sydney begins a two-week lockdown on Saturday to contain a rapidly spreading outbreak of the Delta variant. Millions of residents woke on Sunday to the first full day of coronavirus lockdown, as Australia tried to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant. Sydney’s cluster of cases of the highly infectious…
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As tensions between Australia and China rise, Beijing is expected to ban imports of Australian wheat, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) has reported. From Friday, barley, sugar, red wine, timber, coal, lobster, copper ore and copper concentrates from Australia, are expected to be barred from China even if the goods have been paid for…
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Australia will receive the first doses of an AstraZeneca and Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021 if trials prove successful after Canberra agreed a deal to purchase a second potential vaccine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. Australia said in August it had signed a preliminary agreement with AstraZeneca for enough doses for…
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Following India and the US, several Australian legislators are proposing to ban TikTok as they too fear the app was being used by the Chinese government to collect users’ data, reported the South China Morning Post. Recently, Liberal Senator Jim Molan said TikTok was being “used and abused” by the Chinese government. Labor Senator Jenny…
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It’s been two months since pubs, bars and restaurants were forced to shut their doors in Australia due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a lockdown, which the government had to introduce in order to stop the spread of the disease. Australia’s Carlton & United Breweries have decided to roll out 2,000 barrels of free…
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