Tue, 14 Apr, 2020
The country is now confronting its dependence on exports to China and the destructive power of global warming, but all Western nations will shortly have to reckon with both, says Carl Bildt
Tue, 25 Feb, 2020
Australia has given clearance for Singapore Airlines’s SilkAir to store its six Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the country, as the global grounding of the jet continues following two deadly crashes within the past 12 months.
Sat, 28 Sep, 2019
The solicitor representing Irish woman Lisa Smith who travelled to join Islamic State in Syria, is calling on the Irish government to bring her home and if necessary prosecute her under Irish law.
Thu, 08 Aug, 2019
Neal Horgan says the FAI must open up in order to renew trust and confidence.
Sat, 20 Jul, 2019
An Irish family facing deportation from Australia because their son has cystic fibrosis have been allowed to stay.
Sat, 06 Jul, 2019
In early 2018, in a complex of low-rise buildings in the Australian capital, a team of government hackers was engaging in a destructive digital war game.
Sat, 22 Jun, 2019
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Thu, 11 Apr, 2019
Australia has announced that the last child refugees held on the Pacific atoll of Nauru will soon be sent to the US, ending the banishment of children under the government's harsh asylum seeker policy.
Sun, 03 Feb, 2019
A constant ‘battle’ for funding has led to the closure of a 30-year old award-winning national drug prevention and advisory service at a time when, its founder says, teenagers as young as 14 are using heroin.
Wed, 28 Mar, 2018
The Australian government bowed to growing pressure by announcing a high-level inquiry into misbehaviour in Australia's financial sector.
Thu, 30 Nov, 2017
The Government is facing calls to establish a Commission of Investigation into whistleblower claims against the Air Corps, after the terms of an independent report into the allegations were branded ‘farcical’ by Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.
Sat, 07 Oct, 2017
The Australian government has proposed a new cybersecurity law to force global technology companies to help police by unscrambling encrypted messages sent by suspected extremists and other criminals.
Fri, 14 Jul, 2017
The Government says it has no plans to establish a review to determine if the chronic illnesses suffered by former Air Corps staff were as a result of exposure to chemicals while working at Casement Aerodrome.
Thu, 09 Mar, 2017
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has ended after nearly three years, the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre in Australia has said.
Tue, 17 Jan, 2017
Martin Wagner and Noni Austin outline how the continued exploitation of ‘dirty energy’ resources is not only affecting our climate but is now also having an adverse effect on treasured World Heritage sites
Mon, 01 Aug, 2016
Sat, 30 Jul, 2016
The Australian government has said it will review a planned tax hike for foreign travellers working in the country, which would have had a major impact on Irish people travelling in the country.
Wed, 18 May, 2016
Mon, 02 May, 2016
Aussie tourists may have been warned against rising crime and 1916 Rising protests when visiting Ireland but it’s nothing compared to the hazards Irish travellers are urged to heed down under.
Sat, 16 Apr, 2016
Thu, 14 Apr, 2016
Sat, 27 Feb, 2016
The Australian government is fed up with unemployed people turning down jobs because they might interfere with their golfing plans or acting dreams.
Wed, 24 Feb, 2016
Tue, 26 Jan, 2016
A lawyer for a pregnant Somalia refugee rape victim said he wanted to seek a court order keeping her in Australia before the government suddenly flew her to Nauru without providing the abortion she had requested.
Tue, 20 Oct, 2015
Scott Fardy was faced with a stark choice when the tsunami hit the coast of Japan in March 2011.
Fri, 16 Oct, 2015
The Australian Monarchist League has recently made two submissions.
Fri, 14 Aug, 2015
A couple from Australia have said they will end their "sacred" 10-year marriage if Australia allows same-sex marriage.
Thu, 11 Jun, 2015
Refugees rejected by Australia will soon fly from the Pacific atoll of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia.
Thu, 16 Apr, 2015
An Indonesian court has rejected a last-ditch challenge by two Australian drug convicts facing execution by firing squad, but lawyers for the state and defence were divided over whether legal avenues remained for them to avoid the death penalty.
Tue, 07 Apr, 2015
A freed Al-Jazeera English reporter and his family have called on Egypt to release his two colleagues who remain behind bars, in a case widely condemned as a sham by human rights groups.
Mon, 02 Feb, 2015
More than 22,000 Irish people have settled in Australia since 2009.
Sun, 30 Nov, 2014
The tobacco industry will mount a ferocious attack on Ireland’s plain packaging plan, a leading Australian academic has warned.
Wed, 24 Sep, 2014
The Australian government has bent to public pressure by proposing a specific prohibition on secret service officers torturing suspected terrorists.
Mon, 22 Sep, 2014
The Australian government has raised its terrorism threat level to the second-highest warning in response to the domestic threat posed by Islamic State movement supporters.
Fri, 12 Sep, 2014
Irish software for android tablets, which offers medication reminders as well as helping older people to stay in contact with family and care givers, is going down well in Australia, writes Trish Dromey
Mon, 08 Sep, 2014
It’s not a Frozen sequel, but the characters from the hit animated film will return in Frozen Fever, a short set to debut in spring 2015.
Thu, 04 Sep, 2014
New anti-terror units working at Australia’s two largest airports have intercepted a person of interest, the prime minister has revealed.
Wed, 27 Aug, 2014
I refer to the report from Juno Mc Enroe (Aug 12) which indicates that the tobacco industry is orchestrating a campaign aimed at preventing the implementation of plain packaging of tobacco in Ireland.
Tue, 26 Aug, 2014
Thailand’s military government gave preliminary approval for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a spate of dramatic surrogacy scandals in the past two weeks.
Thu, 14 Aug, 2014
The grandfather of a seven-year-old boy pictured clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier has urged the Australian government to bring the child home.
Tue, 12 Aug, 2014
The photograph of a young boy holding the decapitated head of a slain Syrian soldier and published in Australian media underscored the barbarity of Islamist State militants, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said.
The Australian father at the centre of an international surrogacy controversy has been convicted of more than 20 child sex offences, court documents reveal.
Thu, 07 Aug, 2014
A Thai surrogate mother raising a Down syndrome baby that she claims was abandoned by his Australian biological parents, said she wants the boy’s healthy twin returned to her after learning the father is a convicted sex offender.
Wed, 06 Aug, 2014
The Australian government is considering intervening in the case of a sick Down Syndrome baby left with a Thai surrogate mother by Australian biological parents.
Mon, 04 Aug, 2014
An urgent United Nations Security Council vote could take place as early as tonight on a resolution demanding international access to the Ukraine plane crash site.
Mon, 21 Jul, 2014
The Chinese State news agency has said a Chinese patrol vessel has discovered a pulse radio signal in the Indian Ocean.
Sat, 05 Apr, 2014
No hard retail evidence has emerged in Australia to show that the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes is worth copying by other countries.
Fri, 04 Apr, 2014
Experts say we need at least seven daily portions of fruit and veg to stay in top shape, and we're being warned that tinned and frozen fruit does not count.
Tue, 01 Apr, 2014
Just when you thought you could live forever on five helpings of fruit and vegetables a day, the powers that be say that seven is the latest magic number.
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