Sydney nurse pleads guilty after deadly fire
A former nurse has admitted starting a fire which killed 11 elderly residents at a Sydney nursing home in 2011. Roger Dean appeared in court on Monday and pleaded guilty to 11 counts of murder as well...
View ArticleMother of teen shot dead by police takes case to UN
The mother of a teenage boy shot dead by Australian police has filed a landmark case with the United Nations, claiming the authorities’ poor handling of the case goes against international law. Shani...
View ArticleDutch rower rescued after boat collides with tanker
A Dutch adventurer rowing from Australia to Africa was rescued from the Indian Ocean after his boat collided with a passing oil tanker, in a close-call that left him injured. A Myanmar-flagged merchant...
View ArticleAustralia PM condemns “grossly sexist” menu
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard slammed the opposition party over a controversial menu which she said follows a pattern of misogynist behaviour. The menu under scrutiny, which was used at a...
View Article“Explicit and repugnant” emails rock Australian army
Three Australian Defence Force personnel have been suspended over a series of “explicit and repugnant” e-mails and messages that circulated among troops. Lieutenant General David Morrison says the text...
View ArticleAustralia seeks to trump Japanese whaling
Australia is optimistic it will trump Japan’s claim that its Antarctic whaling is “scientific” in a case with the International Court of Justice that begins this week. Australian Attorney General Mark...
View ArticleAustralian charged over US embassy gate crash
An Australian man has been charged with damaging a diplomatic residence after ramming his car into the gates of the US embassy in Canberra. Adrian Richardson, 30, appeared in a magistrates court after...
View Article88 people rescued in Australia refugee boat sinking
Australian authorities scoured rough seas for survivors after a people-smuggling boat carrying nearly 100 capsized on the weekend. Rescuers pulled 88 people from the water and found a body of a baby in...
View ArticleDozens missing, feared dead in Indonesian boat sinking
Dozens of people are dead or missing after a boat carrying asylum seekers heading to Australia capsized off the Indonesian island of Java. There were reportedly about 170 people on board the boat when...
View ArticleRape, torture “rife” at Papua New Guinea refugee camp
Asylum seekers are raped and tortured at an Australian-run detention camp in Papua New Guinea, a former senior official at the center has alleged. Rod St. George, the former head of occupational health...
View Article
