TEHRAN, March 17, YJC - Australia’s Anglican Church has expressed “deep shame” over a government revelation that close to 1,100 people have filed child sexual assault claims against the Church.
TEHRAN, March 14, YJC - A team of experts from Australian University of Melbourne plan to travel to Iran mid April in a bid to hold technical workshops and sessions and visit Urmia Lake northwestern Iran.
Australia plans to hold exhibitions on mine and health sectors in regional countries, including Iran late March, Australian embassy said in a statement.
Former inmates in juvenile detention centers in Australia’s Northern Territory have filed a class action lawsuit against the local government, demanding compensation for themselves and hundreds of other detainees who were subjected to harsh abuses by prison staff.
Iranian envoy to Australia Abdol-Hossein Vahabi said that Iran and Australia have reached an agreement for launching direct flight line between Tehran and Canberra.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Thursday relations with Australia remained good despite the Indonesian military announcing a day earlier that all military cooperation had been suspended.
Dozens of pro-refugee activists gathered in Australia's city of Melbourne on Tuesday to protest against the country's policy of detaining refugees at offshore processing centers and to commemorate the man who died recently in one of such centers, local media reported
AUCKLAND, Feb 28, 2015 (AFP) - Australia is considering joining New Zealand in a training mission in Iraq to help counter the Islamic State (IS) militant group, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Saturday.
SYDNEY, Feb 2, 2015 (AFP) - Australia's foreign minister said Monday there is a danger of Islamic State jihadists expanding operations to Afghanistan, even though there is little evidence of a presence there now.
SYDNEY, Feb 2, 2015 (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday he had not contemplated stepping down, as pressure mounted on his leadership following a controversial decision to make Britain's Prince Philip a knight.
SYDNEY, Jan 20, 2015 (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday that a protest by asylum-seekers angry at their detention at an immigration centre in Papua New Guinea had been broken.
TEHRAN, YJC .-- Haron Monis, a 49-year-old man who was gunned down after taking dozens of people hostage in a cafe in Sydney for 16 hours, had expressed his allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in a public statement on November 18 Fars news agency reported.
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 15, 2014 (AFP) - Russia's Cold War-style standoff with the West sent a chill through G20 summit talks on Saturday, as an ambitious new push on climate change undermined host Australia's focus on action to heat up the world economy.
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 12, 2014 (AFP) - Pope Francis has called on G20 leaders not to forget the poor, saying to do so would be "regrettable" as the heads of the world's most powerful economies prepare to meet in Australia.
SYDNEY, Sept 27, 2014 (AFP) - Australia's Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday defended the government's plan to transfer refugees to Cambodia, saying the programme would start small but be a long-term arrangement.
Australia's foreign minister has urged UN Security Council members Russia and China to back an international coalition against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, saying that such action was "appropriate."
SYDNEY, Sept 17, 2014 (AFP) - Rising sea levels could threaten infrastructure worth more than Aus$226 billion (US$205 billion) in Australia if climate change is left unchecked, a study warned Wednesday.