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.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

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.

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.

The Australian government bowed to growing pressure by announcing a high-level inquiry into misbehaviour in Australia's financial sector.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

The Australian government is fed up with unemployed people turning down jobs because they might interfere with their golfing plans or acting dreams.

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.

Scott Fardy was faced with a stark choice when the tsunami hit the coast of Japan in March 2011.

The Australian Monarchist League has recently made two submissions.

A couple from Australia have said they will end their "sacred" 10-year marriage if Australia allows same-sex marriage.

Refugees rejected by Australia will soon fly from the Pacific atoll of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia.

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.

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.

More than 22,000 Irish people have settled in Australia since 2009.

The tobacco industry will mount a ferocious attack on Ireland’s plain packaging plan, a leading Australian academic has warned.

The Australian government has bent to public pressure by proposing a specific prohibition on secret service officers torturing suspected terrorists.

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.

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

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.

New anti-terror units working at Australia’s two largest airports have intercepted a person of interest, the prime minister has revealed.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Chinese State news agency has said a Chinese patrol vessel has discovered a pulse radio signal in the Indian Ocean.

No hard retail evidence has emerged in Australia to show that the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes is worth copying by other countries.

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.

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.