TEHRAN, Sept 10 -Police in Australia say some of the devastating wildfires that are ripping through the country’s east are suspicious of having been “purposefully started.”
TEHRAN, August 19 -Influential Pacific island leaders have called for Australia to be ousted from the region's main regional grouping, criticizing Canberra's "neo-colonial" attitudes and refusal to take urgent action on climate change.
TEHRAN, August 16 - Australia’s biggest city Sydney is running down its water supply at the fastest rate on record with dams expected to fall below half maximum capacity due to the worst drought on record, the government said on Friday.
TEHRAN, August 12 -Australia will spend A$500 million ($340 million) to improve the capability of its special forces troops, the first stage of a $3 billion, 20-year plan that the government said on Monday will enable a better response to security threats at home and abroad.
TEHRAN, August 5 -Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that missiles belonging to the United States will not be deployed in Australia.
TEHRAN, Aug 03 - The progress of repairing China-Australia ties, strained over Canberra’s concerns about Chinese influence in its domestic affairs, has been “unsatisfactory,” said China’s top diplomat after meeting his Australian counterpart.
TEHRAN, Jul 29 - Australia passed a legislation that sets down maritime boundaries with East Timor on Monday, providing a framework for the two countries to split revenue from the offshore Greater Sunrise natural gas field.
TEHRAN, Jul 29 - Hundreds of protesters rallied outside Australia's Parliament House on Monday, saying they wanted to highlight the uncertain futures of many refugees since the government replaced permanent protection visas with temporary visas.
TEHRAN, Jul 24 -National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB.AX) said on Wednesday it would ease home-lending rules effective Aug. 5, lowering the interest rate it uses to stress test customers’ loan applications to a minimum 5.5%, in line with its larger peers.
TEHRAN, Jul 24 - Australia is set to pass laws as early as Wednesday that would allow the government to prevent suspected extremists from returning home for up to two years while Australian supporters of the Islamic State group are demanding to be repatriated from crowded Syrian refugee camps.
TEHRAN, Jul 22 - State police said seven people, including four French men aged 29, 30, 32 and 39, had been arrested and charged with trespassing on a railway at the Abbot Point coal terminal.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - Indonesia said on Tuesday (July 9) that it was planning to send back 210 tons of trash to Australia, in its latest attempt to push back waste imported from Western countries.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - An Australian student who was held in North Korea for a week and then deported denied being a spy on Tuesday and expressed sorrow that he won't be able to return to finish his graduate studies at Kim Il Sung University.
TEHRAN, Jul 8 -Australia says China has sent a high-tech surveillance ship toward its waters in an effort to “collect information” on an underway US-Australia war game, from outside the territorial waters.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 - Australia's government on Thursday proposed new laws that would prevent extremist Australians from returning home for up to two years, as the country prepares for the repatriation of Islamic State group supporters from the Middle East.
TEHRAN, Jul 2 - The Australian government returned to Parliament on Tuesday claiming a new mandate from the May election to pass 158 billion Australian dollars ($110 billion) in tax cuts into law.
TEHRAN, Jun 24 -Australia is reportedly working on a secret plan to construct a new deep-water port to accommodate US Marine deployments on its northern coast, a move that is aimed to counter China’s growing presence in the region.
TEHRAN, Jun 17 - The short animation ‘Sohrab and Rustum’, by Australian director Lee Whitmore about mythic warriors in ancient Persia, has won the Yoram Gross Animation Award of 2019 Sydney Film Festival.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 - Heavy fog blanketed Sydney on Saturday morning, delaying flights, creating hazards for shipping and setting social media ablaze with moody photographs of disappearing landmarks.
TEHRAN, Jun 7 - Australian officials have seized the nation's largest haul of methamphetamine at the Melbourne waterfront, nearly 1.6 metric tons (1.8 tons) of the illegal drug hidden in stereo speakers shipped from Bangkok, authorities said Friday.