TEHRAN, January 29 -Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has put forth a controversial plan to boost the military industry and make the country one of the world’s top arms exporters.
TEHRAN, December 23 - The man accused of deliberately plowing into Christmas shoppers on a busy street in the Australian city of Melbourne was charged on Saturday with 18 counts of attempted murder and one count of conduct endangering life.
TEHRAN, December 14 - China summoned Australia's ambassador to lodge a complaint last week over Canberra's allegation that Beijing had sought to interfere in Australian politics, a source familiar with the diplomatic action told Reuters on Thursday.
TEHRAN, December 14 - Australia's population is expanding at the fastest pace in the developed world as skilled migrants flock to the resource-rich nation, a fillip to economic growth overall but perhaps also a source of puzzling weakness in wages.
TEHRAN, November 26 - Hundreds of protesters gathered in Melbourne on Sunday in support of asylum seekers being held in transit centers on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
TEHRAN, November 24 - Papua New Guinean police cleared the remaining asylum-seekers from a shuttered Australian-run detention complex on Friday, ending a three-week protest which started with some 600 people surviving on rain water and smuggled food and supplies.
TEHRAN, November 23 - A rebel member of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s coalition government is circulating a draft bill to step up pressure for an official inquiry into the country’s scandal-hit banks.
TEHRAN, November 10 - The UN refugee agency, also known as the UNHCR, has urged Australia and Papua New Guinea to put an end to the “unconscionable human suffering” of asylum seekers on Manus Island.
TEHRAN, November 9 - Australia should stop rejecting refugees and change its migration laws to come into line with international standards, the U.N. Human Rights Committee said in a report on Thursday.
TEHRAN, November 7 - At least two young children have been killed and scores injured after a 52-year-old woman crashed her Toyota Kluger into a primary school in southwest Sydney.
TEHRAN, November 3 - The United Nations human rights office has condemned the “inhumane” conditions in a detention camp for refugees run by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea (PNG), urging Canberra to restore water and food supplies to the center.
TEHRAN, November 1 - A first night for hundreds of refugees abandoned by Australia at a former detention center on Papua New Guinea (PNG) has passed without incident, although not without stress.
TEHRAN, November 1 - Australia’s world-famous Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, will be closed to climbers from 2019, its management board said on Wednesday, ending a decades-long campaign by Aborigines to protect their sacred monolith in the Northern Territory.
TEHRAN, October 24 -Australia on Tuesday announced the expansion of its security support to the Philippines, which will involve training in urban counter-terrorism, to fight the rise and spread of Islamist militancy in the region.
TEHRAN, October 23 -Australia will spend up to A$250 million ($195 million) housing nearly 800 refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea for the next 12 months after its controversial detention center closes this month.
TEHRAN, October 20 - The United Nations Human Rights Committee has for a second day in Geneva grilled a delegation from Australia over the country’s human rights record, slamming the government’s policies toward refugees and its indigenous population.
TEHRAN, October 17 -French and Australian delegates with the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) initiated a new push to create a marine protected area off the coast of East Antarctica Monday.
TEHRAN, October 15 - Three hundred U.S. Marines flew out of Australia on Sunday as their troop rotation came to an end, the first of a 1,250-strong force to leave the Pacific nation after being stationed for six months in the country’s far north.