Minister for Justice Michael Keenan has launched the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking and Slavery 2015-19. The plan sets the strategic aims of Australia’s whole-of-community response to human trafficking and... Read more »
Air New Zealand has won the Airline of the Year Award for the second successive year Air New Zealand has been named ‘Airline of the Year’ by Airline Ratings for the second consecutive... Read more »
New South Wales has become the first state government to support a federal referendum to change the constitution to recognise indigenous Australians. “This State is home to more than 175,000 Aboriginal and... Read more »
A ‘supercell’ storm hits Brisbane during afternoon peak hour on Thursday, flooding roads, flipping planes, cutting power to thousands and injuring dozens. Officials called it the worst storm to hit the city... Read more »
Expectations from the South Asia Association for Regional Co-operation summit are always high even though some analysts and observers will tell you that this regional forum has repeatedly failed to bring the... Read more »
Australia is the world’s third-highest consumer of digital media, with the average person spending 16.48 hours consuming it every week, according to a report by PQ Media. UK tops the ranking with... Read more »
Brisbane has endured battering winds, rain and hail-stones the size of golf balls in the worst storm to have hit the Australian city in decades, leaving streets flooded, power lines cut and... Read more »
The tragic death of Phillip Hughes that happened too sudden and too soon has greatly stunned Pakistan’s cricket community and fans who share the grief with his friends and family. Pakistan Test... Read more »
Australian Cricket has unveiled its renewed vision for ensuring Australia’s favourite sport is a sport for all Australians. A week-long recognition of diversity and inclusion begins at the Carlton Mid One-Day International at the... Read more »
The commencement of the Multicultural NSW Legislation Amendment Bill 2014 would maintain and promote greater social cohesion and community harmony and renew focus in the beliefs and values which unite Australians. The... Read more »
The cricket community worldwide is in mourning today following the death of Phillip Joel Hughes, aged 25. Hughes had remained in an induced coma at St Vincent’s hospital after suffering fatal head... Read more »
The new infrastructure project of about $8.9 billion is termed a game-changer, one that would transform Sydney forever, announced NSW Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian. “Sydney’s future lies in building a... Read more »
Greater Western Sydney Giants Football Club was named as the winner of the Big Business Award at the Australian Multicultural Marketing Awards for its success in promoting the Aussie Rules Football to... Read more »
Cricket world in shock as Australian batsman struggles for life Australian batsman, Phillip Hughes, has undergone surgery and is in intensive care following emergency surgery after being struck by a bouncer. Hughes was hit below his... Read more »
Vienna – One in three known victims of human trafficking is a child, majority are girls who together with adult women account for 70 per cent of overall trafficking victims worldwide, says... Read more »
Rise of the Robots Five-foot-tall, 300-pound shiny white robots are now patrolling in front of Building 1 on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Designed and manufactured by robotics company Knightscope, the presence of... Read more »
To introduce world of books to children and re-establish a national culture of reading in Pakistan, a Mobile Bus Library Program has been initiated under United States Agency for International Development (USAID)... Read more »
New Delhi: India and Pakistan were very near to a framework agreement on the Kashmir issue through back-channel talks during the Congress-led regime, former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said Wednesday,... Read more »
KATHMANDU – -Nepal and India have agreed to formulate a master plan for the period until 2035 and an action plan until 2025 on power trade. The two countries will also hold... Read more »
Islamabad – During the first-ever visit of a Russian defence minister to Islamabad, Pakistan and Russia on Thursday signed a milestone agreement to enhance cooperation in the defence field. The agreement came... Read more »
Risks of e-voting outweigh benefits – for now While some democracies prefer electronic voting, such as USA using voting machines and Estonia offering e-voting, but Australia is not ready for widespread online voting in... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said that Pakistan is taking decisive and indiscriminate action against Taliban militants including the Haqqani network. Speaking at a banquet held... Read more »
Tony Abbott and Chinese president Xi Jinping have officially concluded negotiations over a historic Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which will deliver at least $18 billion over a decade that maintains full scrutiny of... Read more »
Sri Lanka has been designated by acclamation to Chair the 2015 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, Permanent Representative of Sri... Read more »