Australia PM calls Musk “arrogant billionaire” after court orders X to hide church stabbing posts
Melbourne, Australia Reuters An Australian court has ordered X to hide some posts commenting on the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney, deepening a war of words between the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australia’s federal court late on Monday granted the country’s cyber regulator, the eSafety commissioner, […]
Hundreds gather on Sydney’s Bondi Beach to mourn Westfield attack victims
Sydney, Australia Reuters Hundreds gathered on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening, lighting candles as the sun set, to mourn the six people killed in a knife attack in the area’s Westfield shopping mall a week ago. Joel Cauchi, a 40-year-old who had suffered with mental health issues, killed five women and a male security […]
Australian police say Sydney knife attacker may have targeted women
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australian police said on Monday the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s beach suburb of Bondi may have targeted women, as the country mourned the victims and hundreds of people laid flowers near the scene. In the attack on Saturday at the Westfield Bondi Junction […]
Family mourns “beautiful mother” killed in Sydney mall stabbing
Sydney, Australia Reuters Young Sydney mother Ashlee Good, who cradled her nine-month old daughter Harriet, was one of the victims of a random shopping mall stabbing attack which killed six people, her family confirmed in a statement on Sunday. Five women and a male security guard were killed in the Saturday attack in the Sydney […]
Sydney knife attacker shot dead after killing six in Bondi mall
Sydney, Australia Reuters An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in the beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene. The assailant was shot by a police officer after he attacked shoppers in the busy Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre, a […]
Israel airstrike on Gaza kills seven working for celebrity chef’s NGO
Updated: 17:50pm (AEDT) Reuters Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Monday, the NGO said. The workers, who also included Palestinians and a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, were […]
Essay: A better faith
TIM COSTELLO reflects on the late Australian Indigenous leader Lowitja O’Donoghue’s “deep” Christian faith…
Papua New Guinea leader vows tough response after fighting kills dozens
Sydney, Australia Reuters Papua New Guinea will give arrest powers to its military amid an eruption of tribal violence in remote highlands that saw at least 26 men killed in an ambush, Prime Minister James Marape said late on Monday. Papua New Guinea’s police commissioner David Manning is travelling to the scene of the fighting […]
Australia set to pass contentious tax cuts bill as parliament resumes
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australia looks set to pass a reshaped tax cuts bill, that would give low-income earners more breaks and trim benefits to the wealthy, as the opposition pledged support on Tuesday after initially criticising the government’s shift in policy. The conservative opposition’s decision came as the parliament resumed after a two-month recess. Australian […]
Australia PM considers extra inflation relief as families struggle
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday his centre-left government would consider new cost-of-living relief measures ahead of the May budget but without stoking inflation. Australian households are under broad financial pressure from high inflation, which spiked as high as 7.8 per cent in December, 2022, before slowing to 5.4 per cent […]