Nominations now open for 2016 Australian of the Year Awards

Do you know someone who is worthy of recognition? Now is your chance to nominate them for the Australian of the Year award. Do you know an Australian who you think is... Read more »

Sydney Water proposes to slash up to $100 from household bills

Households will save up to $100 on their water bill each year under a proposal from Sydney Water. Sydney Water’s pricing proposal to slash household and business bills for four years from... Read more »
The two-week “Talisman Sabre” exercise in the Northern Territory and Queensland involves 30,000 personnel from the US and Australia.

Australia, US kick off massive military exercise in NT and Queensland

United States and Australia started a joint military exercise called ‘Talisman Sabre’ which is set to go on for two weeks in the states of Northern Territory and Queensland. The US and... Read more »

Solar Impulse lands in Hawaii after completing epic flight across the Pacific from Japan

A plane powered by the sun’s rays landed in Hawaii on Friday after a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan. Pilot Andre Borschberg and his single-seat aircraft landed at... Read more »

Countdown to CREF 2015: Best Ever Live Performances: Syed Atiq ul Hassan

(Message from the Director, CREF 2015) As the countdown to the great Chand Raat Eid Festival 2015, Australia, has already started; I am pleased to inform everyone that my team is working... Read more »

Australia and WFP’s new partnership to fight global hunger

Australia-WFP partnership to save lives, improve humanitarian action, and fight the impact of food shortages in the Indo-Pacific Australia has announced to enter into a new partnership with the United Nations World... Read more »

Australia’s Aid for Trade aimed at creating jobs and building livelihoods

Australia has announced a new strategy to increase the impact of Australia’s aid for trade investments by driving sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction in developing countries in the Indo-Pacific region. Australia... Read more »
“The AFSPA is like a blank cheque from the government of India to kill innocents like my nephew” said Amin Magray, uncle of 17-year-old killed by troops in April 2003

Amnesty criticises India for not making troops accountable for abuses in Kashmir

“If the army knew that they would be charged and will have to go to court and be prosecuted, they would think ten times before they pull their triggers on an innocent…... Read more »

Robot kills man at Volkswagen plant in Germany

A robot killed a factory worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany, FT reports. The 21-year-old worker was installing the robot when it struck him in the chest, crushing him against a... Read more »
Maria Sharapova waved away concerns about the heat as she progressed to the third round. Getty Images: Julian Finney

Ana Ivanovic crashes out of Wimbledon as Maria Sharapova advances

When a lower-ranked minnow is on a streak – the top players all say – you just have to hang in and hope they come out of it: lose form, lose their... Read more »

Britain swelters on hottest July day ever recorded in UK

The UK has seen the hottest July day on record, with temperatures hitting 36.7C (98F). The Met Office said the reading had been registered at Heathrow – breaking the previous record set... Read more »

‘Kathputli’ is another attraction in CREF 2015 this year

As the hype of CREF 2015 events in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth is getting momentum now and thousands are expecting to come, it is a great news for visitors that first time... Read more »
Australia and New Zealand to play first day-night Test cricket

Australia and New Zealand to play first day-night Test cricket

Cricket’s first day-night Test will be the centrepiece of an enhanced relationship between Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket. To be played in Adelaide from November 27 to December 1, the historic... Read more »
NSW Premier Mike Baird

NSW government to offer travel concessions to asylum seekers

NSW Premier Mike Baird today announced the NSW Government will provide travel concessions to asylum seekers to help them access important social and community services and increase their participation in our society.... Read more »

NSW announces $50,000 fellowships to boost regional artists

The NSW Government is further strengthening opportunities for professional regional artists with ten $50,000 fellowships available over the next four years. The fellowships are part of a major new scheme delivered by... Read more »

Western Sydney hospitals to receive an extra $100 million in funds

Extra funds to flow into western Sydney hospitals Blacktown Hospital and Westmead Hospital of Western Sydney are set to receive extra $100 million in funds that would boost the health and emergency centers.... Read more »
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki, standing, at a treaty-signing ceremony at the Vatican on Friday. Photo credit: L’Ossservatore Romano via AP

Vatican formally recognizes Palestinian state, Israel irked

Vatican signs first treaty with ‘State of Palestine,’ backs two-state solution VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Friday signed a treaty with the “state of Palestine,” a development that the church hopes will... Read more »

Nominations for 2015 NSW International Student Awards are now open

The NSW International Student Awards aim to celebrate the outstanding contribution international students make to communities in NSW and recognise excellence in international student community engagement. There are two Awards presented: International... Read more »
Emergency workers and partygoers tend to the injured at the Formosa Water Park. Photograph: AP

More than 200 injured in fire at Taiwan’s amusement park

More than 200 people were injured — scores of them seriously — after flammable powder apparently exploded in midair at a recreational water park in Taiwan, the East Asian nation’s official Central... Read more »
Sri Lanka's Sangakkara reacts after being dismissed during the fifth and final one-day international cricket match against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi

Sri Lankan batsman Sangakkara confirms international retirement in August

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara will quit international cricket during the Test series against India in August, the island nation’s most prolific batsman said on Saturday. “I have decided to call... Read more »
True Detective 2

True Detective season 2 is a grim, ridiculous misfire

By Scott Meslow Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s raunchy 2004 comedy Team America: World Police was originally planned as a shot-by-shot remake of the ludicrous end-of-the-world blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow. Using... Read more »
Sydney housing

NSW Labor Leader unveils vision for affordable housing

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has unveiled a vision for more affordable housing in his first Budget reply speech that sets out Labor’s policy platform. In a speech that advances positive solutions... Read more »

Baird government quietly cuts Aboriginal support

The NSW Opposition has condemned the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs’ failure to stand up for the Aboriginal community in NSW. The 2015/16 budget reveals a multitude of cuts affecting Aboriginal people in... Read more »
Kuwaiti security forces gather outside the Shiite Al-Imam al-Sadeq mosque after it was targeted by a suicide bombing during Friday prayers on June 26, 2015, in Kuwait City. Photo: Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images

More than 80 killed in Terror attacks in four countries

Friday was a banner day for terror groups around the world. Terrorists launched attacks in four countries on an industrial plant in France, a hotel in Tunisia, a mosque in Kuwait, and... Read more »