List of Australia articles
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reef-crop Climate Change Is Just Murdering Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Because 2016 hasn’t been bad enough, the reef endured its largest-ever die-off this year thanks to rising temperatures.
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pyongyong-cropped How Two Australians Tricked North Korea Into Giving Them a Free Round of Golf in Pyongyang
Two pranksters jokingly signed up for a North Korean golf tournament. When government officials there approved, they just went with it.
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 15: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during House of Representatives question time at Parliament House on September 15, 2015 in Canberra, Australia. Malcolm Turnbull will become the 29th Prime Minister of Australia after he defeated Tony Abbott 54 votes to 44 in a snap leadership ballot on Monday night. Julie Bishop remains deputy leader of the Liberal party following the spill. (Photo by Stefan Postles/Getty Images) Malcolm Turnbull Is Losing Popularity, But Says He Is Australia’s Happiest Ever PM
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's ratings are at an all-time low, but he says he's the country's happiest ever government leader.
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One Nation Party founder and Senate candidate Pauline Hanson (L) is pictured as she campaigns at a shopping arcade in the suburbs of Sydney on August 14, 2013. With the country's federal election set to take place on September 7, the economy is the number one issue for Australians, according to data from an interactive tool hosted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Using data drawn from the first 250,000 responses and weighted to reflect the national population, it found the economy was ranked number one, with asylum-seekers a distant but clear second. AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) 20 Years After She Warned Australia About Asians, Lawmaker Says Muslims Are the Threat
In an incendiary inaugural senate speech, the leader of Australia’s One Nation party called for an immigration ban and monitoring Islamic groups.
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (2/L) poses in front of a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft with the leaders of China's, Japan's and South Korea's military efforts searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, during a visit to RAAF Base Pearce at Bullsbrook, Western Australia on March 31, 2014. All evidence pointed to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 being lost in the Indian Ocean, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, backing his Malaysian counterpart's view that the plane had crashed. The flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing vanished on March 8 and more than three weeks later no debris has been found of the aircraft which was carrying 239 passengers and crew. AFP PHOTO/POOL/Jason REED (Photo credit should read JASON REED/AFP/Getty Images) Time to Choose between U.S. and China, American Officer Tells Australia
An Army colonel has waded into Australia’s anxious debate over how to manage relations with Washington and Beijing.
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 08: Thousands of Melbournians rallied on the steps of the state library in co-ordinated, Australia-wide rallies, protesting the High Courts decision regarding the 267 refugees facing deportation on February 8, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. The High Court rejected a legal challenge to the federal government's offshore immigration detention regime on Wednesday, which means 267 people, including babies and children, face deportation from Australia to detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru within days. (Photo by Chris Hopkins/Getty Images) This 88-Year-Old Retired Australian Judge Wants to Trade Places with a Refugee.
In protest of offshore detention centers, this 88-year-old retired judge is asking to trade places with a refugee.
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NAURU, NAURU: The barren and bankrupt island state of the Republic of Nauru awaits the arrival of 521 mainly Afghan refugees, 11 September 2001 which have been refused entry into Australia. The 25-square-kilometers of land encompassing Nauru has been devastated by phosphate mining which once made the Micronesian Nauruans the second wealthiest people per capita on earth. AFP PHOTO/Torsten BLACKWOOD (Photo credit should read ) Australia Treats Refugees Horribly. But Denmark Wants a Peek at That Playbook.
A group of Danish parliamentarians won rare access to an Australian offshore detention center where abuse and exploitation are rampant.
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JULY 07: Senator David Leyonhjelm casts his vote for President of the Senate during an official ceremony at Parliament on July 7, 2014 in Canberra, Australia. Twelve Senators will be sworn in today, with the repeal of the carbon tax expected to be first on the agenda. (Photo by Stefan Postles/Getty Images) Australian Politician Files Human Rights Complaint After Newspaper Calls Him an Angry White Man
After fighting to repeal a racial discrimination law, this white Australian senator is using it.
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 12: People take part in the European Wide Day of Action to Welcome Refugees on September 12, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced an additional 12,000 places for Syrian refugees on September 9, 2015. The extra permanent resettlement places will almost double this year's refugee intake, however protesters are calling on further allowances from the Federal Government in addition to the closure of offshore processing centres in Nauru. (Photo by Luis Ascui/Getty Images) Australian Immigration Minister: Asylum-Seekers Make Up Abuse Stories to Get Into Our Country
Australia's immigration minister claims some of the Nauru reports were likely made up.
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PLA soldiers shout during a demonstration at the open day of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Base at Stonecutter Island in Hong Kong on July 1, 2016, to mark the 19th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover to China. / AFP / Anthony Wallace (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) China’s Gone Ballistic Since the Hague Ruling
Beijing has lashed out at neighbors and the U.S. after losing in a landmark international tribunal.
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Booklist_image1 Around the World in 40 Books
Headed to Rio, Paris, or Cape Town this summer? We asked distinguished writers and thinkers to pick their favorite books about 20 of the world’s great cities.
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East Timorese activists attend a rally outside the Australian embassy in Dili on February 23, 2016. Hundreds of East Timorese activists held a rally on February 23 calling on the Australian government to negotiate for the establishment of permanent maritime boundaries between Australia and East Timor. AFP PHOTO / VALENTINO DARIEL SOUSA / AFP / VALENTINO DARIEL SOUSA (Photo credit should read VALENTINO DARIEL SOUSA/AFP/Getty Images) Timor-Leste: Australia Is Behaving Like China in Disputed Waters
The Timorese prime minister is looking for U.S. support as his country presses Australia to finally negotiate a boundary in the oil-rich Timor Sea
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PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 22: Tinder on display at the Billboard Winterfest at Park City Live! on January 22, 2016 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images for Billboard) In Australia, Using Facebook to Threaten Feminists With Rape Could Get You Jail Time
An Australian man has agreed to plead guilty after he used Facebook to make sexual threats.
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(GERMANY OUT) Tierpark Berlin Friedrichsfelde Berlin 20.05.2014 Bild-Motiv: Elefanten Kando und Kariba angeln sich saftiges Gruen aus dem Graben (Photo by Olaf Wagner/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Australian Lawmaker: I Shot and Ate an Elephant — and I Liked It
Australian lawmakers sparred over elephant meat, and one of them said he liked eating it.
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1024px--_fighting_red_kangaroos_1 Four questions from an Aussie military blog
How resilient is your force when technology fails?
