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Foreign Minister Penny Wong will embark on a visit to Vietnam and Malaysia, her second trip to Southeast Asia since being sworn in. Senator Wong will fly out on Sunday …
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Afghanistan lacks the medical supplies to treat those injured in an earthquake that killed more than 1000 people this week, a senior official says, as an aftershock killed five more. …
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New Zealand is celebrating its first-ever Indigenous public holiday, Matariki, which signals the start of the Maori New Year. Matariki is the Maori name for the Pleiades cluster of stars, …
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More than a thousand excited and boisterous participants clad in colourful T-shirts gathered at Sydney’s Opera House to launch next year’s WorldPride. A global festival celebrating sexual diversity held in …
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A bipartisan package of advanced in the United States Senate on Thursday, even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry …
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Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained in strong spirits after being transferred from house arrest to prison, a source with knowledge of the case said Thursday, and would …
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This article contains references to sexual assault/abuse. Western Australia’s multibillion-dollar mining industry has failed to protect women from predatory sexual behaviour, an inquiry has found. A committee chaired by Liberal …
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Mask mandates on flights could soon be scrapped but a national approach must first be agreed to by all states and territories, the health minister says. While Mark Butler has …
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Sri Lanka’s prime minister says its debt-laden economy has “collapsed” after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, and the South Asian island nation cannot even purchase imported oil. …
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Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has been temporarily blocked from taking up a taxpayer-funded job in New York City. Last week, the government announced Mr Barilaro had been appointed …
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