Australia

During a weekend exchange with reporters Robert “Beto” O’Rourke explained he plans to use fines to “compel” American gun owners to comply with his AR-15 ban.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter have all reportedly rejected a proposal from Australia’s media regulator to implement an industry code of conduct on fake news. An association representing the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe argue that the rules would make the government “a truth verification body.”

The UFC’s Octagon Girls are under a threat of being banned in Australia, because the tradition is “sexist” and “outdated,” according to several local politicians.

Two women who are dual British-Australian citizens and an Australian man have been detained in Iran, one of them sentenced to 10 years in prison, Australia’s government and media said Wednesday.

Tough qualification rules and a preferrence for skilled workers has seen the number of migrants granted permanent residency in Australia fall to its lowest level in a decade.

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott advised Britain on Monday to set a cap on skilled migration to avoid being “swamped” in a post-Brexit world.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ordered his own department to remove gender-neutral signage on bathroom doors, lambasting them as “ridiculous.”

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government will “boot out” a convicted child sex offender all the way back to his homeland Iraq once his prison sentence has been finished.

The Pentagon is hoping to team up with Australia to construct a rare earths processing facility that would permanently break China’s hold on an industry crucial to high-tech manufacturing and weapons development, Voice of America News reported on Monday.

The Catholic archbishop of Melbourne still believes Cardinal George Pell is innocent of abuse charges brought against him, despite an Australian court’s split decision to deny the cardinal an appeal.

A Sydney, Australia, couple faces community service for feeding their infant daughter a strict vegan diet — almost killing her.

An Australian court’s rejection of an appeal by Cardinal George Pell of his conviction for historic sexual abuse “calls into the gravest doubt the quality of justice in Australia,” writes noted Catholic intellectual George Weigel in a stinging analysis Wednesday.

An Australian court rejected the appeal of Cardinal George Pell against child sex abuse charges Wednesday by a split judgment of 2-1.

Australia will join the United States and the UK in an international maritime coalition protecting oil tankers and cargo ships from threats posed by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday.

The United States Studies Center at the University of Sydney in Australia released a report on Monday that warned America has lost its military superiority in the Indo-Pacific region and Chinese missiles could wipe out its bases with “precision strikes in the opening hours of a conflict.”

Twitter has been hit with another claim that it is using the laws of a foreign country in an attempt to stifle and punish American speech on the social media platform.

A man screaming “Allahu Akbar” went on a stabbing spree in downtown Sydney on Tuesday, killing one woman and wounding another before the public restrained him, an incident that local police insist was not terror-related.

On the same day New Zealand summoned China’s diplomatic team to formally rebuke Beijing for encouraging violence against supporters of the Hong Kong protest movement at the University of Auckland, the Chinese Communist Global Times was praising violent pro-China students in New Zealand and Australia for using “creative methods to protect national sovereignty and dispel misrepresentation of pro-independence forces.”

The world’s approach to containing China’s rise resembles the “catastrophic failure” to prevent the advance of Nazi Germany, the head of Australia’s parliamentary intelligence committee warned Thursday.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday the Atlantic alliance must counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific, working closely with allies such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.

Basketball star Ben Simmons accused an Australian casino of “racial profiling,” after allegedly being denied entry.

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke told podcast host Jon Favreau that he supports the idea of making gun licensing and mandatory buybacks part of the conversation revolving around the El Paso and Dayton shootings.

A pro-Hong Kong rally at the University of Queensland in Australia last week turned ugly after a violent group of pro-Beijing students crashed the event and attacked the pro-democracy demonstrators.

An Australian school program is teaching young children about the boundaries for sexual consent by explaining they have the right to reject kisses and physical contact with their grandmother.

“Sooner not later” is the mantra for Australia seeking to trade with the UK in a post-Brexit world, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying he wants a deal done within weeks of Britain exiting EU trade restrictions.

Australia has no intention of stopping the deportation of convicted Kiwi criminals to their homeland, despite a personal plea from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the practice to end.

China’s state-run media sputtered with outrage over Monday’s installment of the Australian television program Four Corners, which looked at the massive re-education camps China has established in Xinjiang province to hold a sizable portion of its Muslim population. China slammed the report as “deplorable” and “cold-blooded,” by which it meant the Australian team overlooked all the wonderful things Beijing is doing for the Uighur people.

Australia will not soften its stand against illegal immigrants or refugees seeking asylum and government benefits, a report released on Wednesday shows.

Australia is “deeply concerned” about China’s internment of Uighurs and predominantly Muslim minorities in concentration camps in Xinjiang province, where they face a plethora of human rights abuses including forced labor, the foreign affairs minister declared on Monday.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed Saturday he has been invited by U.S. President Donald Trump to an official state dinner at the White House. It is the first such invitation to an Australian prime minister since George Bush hosted John Howard in 2006.