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Rupert Murdoch’s engagement abruptly called off – US media

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and ex-police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith have abruptly called off their engagement weeks after announcing it, reports say. Vanity Fair quotes a source close to Mr Murdoch, 92, as saying he had become uncomfortable with what were described as the outspoken evangelical views of Ms Smith, 66. Mr Murdoch, who split with […]

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Australian rugby and NFL star Jarryd Hayne guilty of rape

By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Former Australian Rugby League star Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of raping a woman in 2018. It is the third time Hayne has faced trial for the same case, with the first ending in a hung jury and the second’s guilty verdict overturned on appeal. The […]

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Malka Leifer: former headmistress guilty of Australia child sex abuse

By Tiffanie Turnbull and Tom Housden BBC News, Sydney An Israeli former headteacher has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage students at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls school in Australia. The jury in Melbourne found Malka Leifer had raped and indecently assaulted sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper between 2003 and 2007. […]

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Saxon Mullins: The woman changing Australia’s rape laws

By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Saxon Mullins says she once had romantic dreams of what her “first time” would be like. In none was she paralysed by fear in a Sydney alleyway, aged 18, with a man she had met only minutes earlier. Ms Mullins has always maintained this incident – in 2013 – […]

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Australia election: Anthony Albanese leads Labor to Australian election victory

By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Australia election 2022 Anthony Albanese is set to become Australia’s next prime minister after leading the Labor Party to its first election victory in more than a decade. One of the country’s longest-serving politicians, he promised voters “safe change” as he worked to kick out the conservative Liberal-National […]

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How Australia became the anxious country

Australia election 2022 Millions of Australians will vote in a federal election on Saturday. But, asks Nick Bryant, is the country’s luck running out? Australia feels right now more like an Anxious Country. Gone is the economic swagger that came from its almost 30-year run without plunging into recession. Absent is the kind of […]

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Facebook accused of deliberately disrupting Australia emergency services

Facebook deliberately used an over-zealous blocking system that took down the pages of Australian emergency services last year as a negotiating tactic, whistleblowers claim. The social network moved to block all news outlets in Australia over a row about paying news providers. But fire services and state health services were also blocked, during fire season […]

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Qantas promises direct flights from Sydney to London and New

By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Qantas has announced it will begin operating non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York from 2025. Australia’s national carrier said it had purchased a new fleet of Airbus A350-1000 jets capable of direct flights to any city in the world. The first Sydney-London flights will depart in […]

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Australia election: PM Morrison’s security team in car crash in

Australia election 2022 A car carrying the Australian prime minister’s security team has crashed in Tasmania during an election campaign visit. Four police officers were taken to hospital with “non-life threatening injuries” after the car and another vehicle collided, authorities said. Prime Minister Scott Morrison was not in the car, but the accident prompted […]

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Australia announces new ‘Space Command’ defence agency

Australia has unveiled a defence agency focused on space, designed to counter Russia and China’s ambitions. Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the Defence Space Command would secure Australia’s place in the cosmos. Air Vice-Marshal Cath Roberts, who will lead it, said she was “scared” by Australia’s inability to combat Beijing and Moscow’s activities. The US, […]

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