Daniel Andrews told Victorians at a news conference that “we have to do more, and we have to do more right now,” as the state battles to contain a devastating coronavirus outbreak that had already stripped residents of their freedoms, livelihoods and social interactions and made it an outlier from the rest of the country. … Read more
Eight students in the state of New South Wales (NSW) were targeted in “virtual kidnapping” scams this year, with overseas relatives paying a total of 3.2 million Australian dollars ($2.3 million) in ransom, police said in a statement. In one case, the father of a 22-year-old Chinese student in Sydney handed over a more than … Read more
CANBERRA: Australia’s consumer watchdog launched court action against Google on Monday alleging the technology giant misled account holders about its use of their personal data. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s action in the Federal Court is the latest litigation Google has faced around the world over allegations of privacy breaches. The commission alleges the … Read more
Residents in more than 40 houses along Wamberal Beach, located in the central coast north of Sydney, have had to evacuate over the past few days as coastal erosion threatened to damage or destroy the homes. The multi-million dollar properties sit on a cliff above the water, but days of strong swells have eaten away … Read more
By the time she died in 1905, Smith was the last native speaker of her people’s language. It was one of more than 250 distinct languages spoken on the Australian continent when Europeans began arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since then, colonial rules systematically stripped Indigenous peoples of their languages through English-only education policies … Read more
Letters between Kerr and Buckingham Palace were made public after a years-long court battle, but ultimately did not contain the smoking gun that some observers had expected — that the Queen had directly ordered Whitlam’s removal. Kerr, who died in 1991, said he took the decision on his own, only later informing the Queen, because … Read more