Month: March 2021

BRISBANE, Australia — The pets of domestic violence victims in New South Wales, a southeastern Australian state, will also be legally protected when an apprehended domestic violence order is granted. Attorney-General Mark Speakman says the protection of animals […]

DARWIN, Australia — Kakadu National Park management is set to ask the Commonwealth Attorney-General to intervene after it was sued for allegedly illegally disturbing an Aboriginal sacred site. Parks Australia — which is part of the […]

CANBERRA, Australia — Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission in New South Wales, a southeastern Australian state, will be virtually eliminated in five years if a new government strategy is effective. The plan, announced by New South […]

CANBERRA, Australia — When hardships pile up, Jaydyn Coggins from South Australia’s cosmopolitan coastal capital Adelaide gets stacking. The teenager, who has jumped over many hurdles in life, is traveling the world with a unique “superpower” Coggins can stack […]

CANBERRA, Australia — Clean energy and battery technology can provide grid security that has traditionally been the role of fossil fuels, a new study has said. The Australia Institute’s research has “surprised” energy policy lead Dan Cass who […]

GOLD COAST, Australia — A woman from Gold Coast, a metropolitan region south of Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, accused of murdering her two adult children with disabilities for insurance payouts, has been committed to stand […]

SYDNEY — More than seven years after Kulwinder Singh’s wife died in a petrol-fuelled blaze, Singh was acquitted of her murder. Kulwinder Singh, 42, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Parwinder Kaur on December 2, 2013, […]

ADELAIDE, Australia — A protest has marked the opening of the new Chinese consulate in Adelaide, South Australia’s cosmopolitan coastal capital, which has previously prompted questions over its size and staffing levels. Premier Steven Marshall attended […]

DUBBO, Australia — A 74-year-old woman whose body was found at her New South Wales, Australia (central west), home alongside her 54-year-old son on March 9, 2015, checked herself out of the hospital against doctors’ advice […]

CANBERRA, Australia — A potential parliament house hack is under investigation by Australia’s lead agency for cybersecurity. The Australian government shut down the department of parliamentary services (DPS) email network over the weekend due to an IT […]