Sydney voted as one of the top cities in the world

Sydney voted as one of the top cities in the world

“With Sydney’s buzzing night life, spectacular harbour and beaches and world-class restaurants, it’s no wonder that this city is continually loved by visitors from across the globe,” Minister Ayres said Sydney has once again... Read more »
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli with school kids. Photo: Adam McLean

NSW announces record funding of $113 million to support public schools

Education Minister Piccoli says the substantial investment in public education will further boost determination of public schools to deliver improved student results The NSW Liberals & Nationals Government has announced to invest a... Read more »
Palestinian Film Festival makes its return in November 2015 with seven features and five short films to capture the imagination of audiences across Australia

Palestinian Film Festival returns to Australia in November 2015

Palestinian Film Festival aims to enrich Australia’s understanding of Palestine beyond the news headlines Palestine – beyond the headlines and into homes in Australia Australia is all set to host the Palestinian Film Festival... Read more »
Victor Dominello

Outdated laws to get the chop

Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Victor Dominello will today introduce a ‘spring clean’ bill to repeal 30 outdated and obsolete laws from the statute books, as part of the NSW Government’s... Read more »
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today in Jerusalem and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Wednesday is a bid to ease tensions in the region. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)

Ban Ki-moon urges Israel, Palestine for political solution to end violence

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a surprise visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Tuesday, in a high-profile gambit to bring an end to the month-long wave of violence that... Read more »
Australian Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda delivers the 2015 Charles Perkins Oration at the University of Sydney. Photo by Sarah Rhodes

Commissioner Gooda pays tribute to Charles Perkins and warns of trend towards income management

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has warned of a “worrying” trend back towards income management with the passing of the Healthy Welfare Card through Federal Parliament this... Read more »
NSW Premier Mike Baird

COMMUNITY LEADERS CALLED IN AFTER PARRAMATTA MURDER

By NSW Premier, Mike Baird, @MikeBairdMP: I met with Muslim leaders this week as concerns in the general community grow over the shooting murder of Curtis Cheng as he was leaving work... Read more »

Sri Lankan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh talent on display at MoneyGram Thunder Nation Cup

The MoneyGram Thunder Nation Cup is heating up, with three more teams cementing their place at the MoneyGram Thunder Nation Cup Semi-Finals on November 15th, Auburn. Davis 8, Afghan Stars and the... Read more »

Do we actually only need six hours of sleep a night?

Lights, TV, smartphones and computers are often blamed for depriving modern humans of sleep. But a new study suggests that our prehistoric ancestors didn’t get any more than 7 hours of a... Read more »
Pakistan and Russia on Friday signed an inter-governmental agreement for the construction of 1,100 km gas pipeline from Lahore to Karachi.

Pakistan, Russia sign US $2 billion deal to build gas pipeline

Pakistan and Russia on Friday signed an inter-governmental agreement for the construction of 1,100 km gas pipeline from Lahore to Karachi. The agreement was jointly signed by Federal Minister for Petroleum and... Read more »
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan rceives honorary doctorate from Edinburgh University

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan receives honorary doctorate from Edinburgh University

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh for his contribution to film and his philanthropic work. Shah Rukh Khan said he was “extremely grateful... Read more »
Refugees arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey - a crossing EU leaders want to discourage people from taking AFP/GEtty Imagese

European leaders and Turkey agree on joint plan to help refugees

European Union leaders at a summit in Brussels said they agreed on an “action plan” with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan​ to cooperate on improving the lives of two million Syrian refugees in... Read more »
Australia is one of the world's biggest coal producers

Australia approves controversial India-backed coal mine despite environmental concerns

Australia’s government has given its approval on Thursday for one of the world’s biggest coal mines to be built by India’s Adani Mining in Queensland despite environmentalists’ fears that the project threatens the... Read more »
Boeing says its metal microlattice is the 'lightest metal ever'

Boeing has created ‘lightest metal ever’

Boeing’s new metal is 99.99% air and can be used for almost anything A new video released by Boeing this week claims that the company has invented a metal that’s “99.99 percent... Read more »
Influence of India's Hindu fundamentalists on their country's government

Influence of India’s Hindu fundamentalists on their government

Al Jazeera investigative report Since Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist and leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), became prime minister of India in May 2014, groups of radical Hindu nationalists... Read more »

Old Habits Die Hard

By Tassawar Khan; The aggressive policies of Indian PM Narindra Modi stay in the media lime light. A visible change is observed in the Indian Foreign Policy since the BJP superemo has... Read more »
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during question time on Wednesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Australia will seek justice for MH17 victims: PM Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull has assured Australian families devastated by the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine that their government will never give up the search for the perpetrators nor be... Read more »
The wreckage of MH17 is seen after the presentation of a report into the crash. Reuters Photo: Michael Kooren

Australian PM Turnbull offer prayers for MH17 victims’ families

Prime Minister the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP and the Foreign Affair Minister Julie Bishop MP have welcomed the release of the Dutch Safety Board’s final aircraft accident investigation report. Following a Dutch... Read more »
domestic violence

NSW Government commits 60 million AUD to reduce domestic violence

NSW Premier Mike Baird said that domestic violence was a plague that needed to be eradicated across NSW and Australia. “No one should have to live in fear in their own home,”... Read more »

Important update for students receiving Youth or ABSTUDY Allowance

Parents with children receiving Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY Living Allowance as a dependent need to update their financial details as soon as possible to ensure their children continue receiving their payment. Department... Read more »
Victims lie on the street in Ankara as the scene of the explosion is cordoned off . Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Nearly 100 dead as bombs rock Turkey’s capital

Two powerful bombs ripped through the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning, killing at least 100 people and injuring 186 others in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in... Read more »

Islamic leaders need to do more in Australia

By Syed Atiq ul Hassan, Sydney Australia “If you don’t like Australia, leave” said, today, by Mr. Neil El-Kadomi, the Chairman of Parramatta Mosque. Well, being an Australian citizen and in principle... Read more »
Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature. Credit Reuters

Belarus Journalist Svetlana Alexievich wins 2015 Nobel prize in literature

Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian journalist and prose writer, was recognized for “for her polyphonic writings” and awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. The 67-year-old writer and journalist from Belarus... Read more »

Sydney police release three arrested in anti-terror raids

Three of four men linked with Parramatta shooting have been released without charge in a move police admitted Thursday was “incredibly frustrating”, according to The Australian. A number of people were arrested after raids in... Read more »