Emergency services were flooded with calls about a potential plane crash, residents feared 2020 may finally have unleashed alien hordes to put humanity out of its misery… but what exactly did light up the skies above Victoria? “Feels right that the next step for 2020 is alien invasion…” wrote one […]
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At least 11 people have been injured after a car smashed into a hijab store in Greenacre, New South Wales. The driver of the vehicle crashed into another car before aggressively revving the engine and plowing into the shopfront. Police immediately responded to the scene following reports of a driver […]
Beijing’s recent decisions come against the backdrop of heightened diplomatic tension between China and Australia, following a push by Prime Minister Scott Morrison for an independent COVID-19 investigation amid allegations the Asian country had downplayed the seriousness of the virus. China has announced huge five-year duties on Australian barley exports, […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The South China Sea remains a strategically important route for access to Southeast Asia. While China claims that it enjoys sovereign rights over much of the relevant waters, the tensions continue to grow as the White House accuses Beijing of exploiting the coronavirus pandemic in order to […]
A mother was arrested and separated from her crying child in Sydney, Australia for protesting ‘for her rights’ during the coronavirus pandemic. The mother was arrested for violating Australia’s coronavirus social distancing regulations that require all Australians to keep a distance of 1.5 meters away from each other at all […]
Police in Australia have arrested a 49-year-old man for the alleged homophobic killing of American mathematician Scott Johnson, who fell to his death from a cliff near Manly’s North Head on the coast off Sydney 32 years ago. Scott Phillip White, who was a teenager at the time of the […]
The global suicide rate is accelerating as coronavirus-triggered lockdowns supercharge depression and mass job losses push people over the edge. Australian and US researchers have highlighted the threat to their countries. A spike in suicides triggered by Covid-19 lockdowns is expected to exceed deaths from the actual virus by a […]
Cardinal George Pell, the former Vatican treasurer who was released from prison in April after winning an appeal on his clerical sex-abuse conviction, lied about what he knew about abusive priests, according to unredacted parts of a report by an Australian commission investigating the matter. The lengthy Royal Commission Into […]
The CEO of fintech firm iSignthis has accused the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) of abusing its market-leader position by trying to delay the launch of ClearPay, a blockchain-based trading system on the rival National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX). A joint venture between iSignthis and the NSX, ClearPay uses distributed […]