Australia

(AFP) — Thousands of people joined “Invasion Day” protests in cities across Australia on Sunday to mark the beginning of British colonisation of the vast continent.

The U.S. has responded to revelations the UK may green-light the involvement of Huawei in the nation’s future 5G data networks with concern.

A Canadian-owned C-130 Hercules air tanker crashed while fighting bushfires in Australia’s remote southern alpine ranges on Thursday, killing all three of its American flight crew.

A six-year-old Massachusetts boy raised more than $51,000 for Australian wildlife devastated by the deadly bushfires on the continent, far surpassing his initial $1,000 goal.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed during the Democrat debate on Tuesday hosted by CNN that the massive bushfires in Australia were started by global warming.

A post on WeChat by a Chinese user named Yong Bo on Friday blamed Australians for being too lazy and unpatriotic to control the wildfires raging across their country, unlike the hard-working and patriotic Chinese who battled a massive fire in 1987.

A seven-year-old girl from England raised hundreds of dollars for animals injured by the Australian wildfires by selling juice.

First Lady Melania Trump made an unexpected homage to Australia on Monday evening at the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The real concern of environmental activists like Greta Thunberg is not climate change, but to “upend society” and “move away from capitalism,” Australia’s Resources Minister Matt Canavan said Tuesday.

Vegetables were air-dropped to feed Australian wildlife recently after their food sources were burned by the bushfires.

Australia’s ‘climate’ fires are fast becoming the biggest fake news scare story of 2020. All the world’s stupidest, most annoying, hand-wringing, virtue-signalling leftists, luvvies, eco-loons, shyster politicians, second-rate activist scientists and other bottom feeders are jumping on the bandwagon.

A waitress plans to pay it forward after she got the biggest tip she had ever seen Tuesday at a restaurant in Sacramento, California. 

The Royal Australian Navy was applauded Friday after one of its ships completed an emergency beer run to help resupply a pub besieged by bushfires.

In one of the odder twists of the Taiwanese presidential election, representatives of the pro-China Kuomintang party (KMT) accused incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen of “sucking up to the Chinese Communist Party” while insisting it is unfair to describe the KMT as pro-China. 

Bystanders applauded a group of U.S. firefighters when they arrived at the airport in Syndey, Australia, this week to help fight bushfires in Victoria. 

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest rejected the assertion climate change is behind Australia’s bushfire crisis, instead pointing to arsonists Thursday as the biggest factor as he dipped into his own pocket to donate millions to recovery efforts.

The blazes that continue to ravage swathes of Australia, described as “apocalyptic,” had reportedly killed a total of 25 people as of Tuesday, including 20 in the worst-affected area of New South Wales (NSW) where the still-burning fires have razed or damaged more than 2,000 homes.

The images are enough to melt the hardest hearts: Koalas and kangaroos trying to flee bushfires that have engulfed large parts of Australia.

An Australian sheepdog is being hailed a hero for saving a flock of sheep from the brushfires that destroyed their farmland December 31. 

Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday wrongly attributed Australia’s devastating bushfires to climate change — an assertion that follows the arrests of 183 people accused of setting bushfires since the start of 2019.

Pop icon Elton John and Avengers star Chris Hemsworth have pledged to donate one million dollars each to help Australia recover from the massive bushfires that have beset the island nation for the last few weeks.

Australian police investigating the bushfires have arrested more than 180 alleged arsonists since the start of 2019. But apparently they forgot to send the memo to Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, both of whom insisted in their Golden Globes acceptance speeches that the Australian bushfires were in fact caused by ‘climate change.’

Australian law enforcement has arrested over 180 people for arson in connection with the nation’s raging bushfires, as alarmists try to pin the blazes on “climate change.”

Dinner around the Tsitsipas family table is going to be a little awkward for a while.

Twenty-four Australians in the state of New South Wales alone have been arrested since early November for intentionally setting bushfires as a record number of blazes continue to burn across the country.

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher has written a special opening prayer for the “Mass for Rain” as part of a prayer campaign to beg God for rainfall.

Police in five Australian states have begun investigations into alleged arsonists responsible for helping fuel the deadly bushfires that have wracked the country this summer.

The Irwin family’s wildlife hospital recently treated animal number 90,000 as wildfires continue to ravage parts of Australia. 

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has told Israeli public radio that many politicians appear to be in the grip of a “climate cult” and are pursuing policies which will lead to “Third World-style blackouts” in the West. 

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have donated $500,000 to those affected by the bushfires now raging through their homeland in Australia.