PM calls for Turkey travel warning review after Erdogan threats
Australia is urgently reviewing travel advice for Turkey weeks before Anzac Day celebrations after President Tayyip Erdogan warned Australians can expect to come home “in caskets” if there is a…
49 killed in New Zealand massacres
An Australian is among those who have been arrested after 49 people were killed and dozens more injured in terrorist shooting attacks at two Christchurch mosques. At least one gunman…
Donald Trump orders Boeing 737 MAX fleet grounded, as plane maker backs ‘caution’
The Ethiopian crash on Sunday killed 157 people, and was the second disaster involving the Boeing 737 MAX 8 in less than five months. In October, the unexplained crash of…
Dutton’s department processed just 15% of citizenship applications last year
Audit office’s damning review finds home affairs department working in neither a time-efficient nor resource-efficient manner The Department of Home Affairs dropped its target of processing 80% of citizenship applications…
Domestic violence prevention program gets $328 million funding boost
Domestic violence prevention programs will get a $328 million funding boost from the federal government as part of an ongoing national strategy to curb violence toward women. The package includes…
George Pell looked a changed man as he was sentenced for his crime
In the end, he was just an elderly, grey-faced man in the dock. Not a prince of the church, not a cardinal, but a man convicted of and sentenced for…
Turnbull rebukes Abbott, saying ‘ideology and idiocy’ can’t determine energy policy
Malcolm Turnbull has slammed Tony Abbott’s suggestion that Australia should reinvest in coal power, labelling the idea “ideology and innumerate idiocy”. Mr Turnbull’s blunt intervention adds fuel to the heated…
Australian jihadi bride who fled Islamic State wants to bring her children home from Syrian refugee camp
An Australian woman trapped with her two young children in a refugee camp for Islamic State group families says her daughter needs urgent medical care and she wants to come…
IS militants ‘caught trying to escape’ last Syria enclave
About 400 ISIS militants have been captured trying to escape the last piece of land the group holds in Syria, a US-backed militia says. A Syrian Democratic Forces commander said…
Senator Martha McSally: I was raped by Air Force superior officer
A US senator has said that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force. Senator Martha McSally, who was the first female US fighter pilot…