World war 3 is coming…
The prospect of a global conflict – World War III if you like – appears somewhat unthinkable. Since the Second World War, there has been no major war between the great powers. The original post-war European project was based around peace, social justice and harmony. The unravelling of this project, accompanied by rising nationalism, is […]
Australia Was Colonised by One Group 50,000 Years Ago, DNA Evidence Reveals
Historic hair samples collected from Aboriginal people show that following an initial migration 50,000 years ago, populations spread rapidly around the east and west coasts of Australia. Our research, published in Nature today, also shows that once settled, Aboriginal groups remained in their discrete geographical regions right up until the arrival of Europeans a few […]
‘Get rid of the bong’: Man recalls reaction to finding 3 yr-old daughter dead
A Brisbane man who discovered his three-year-old daughter dead in his lounge room says he told his housemate to get rid of a bong before calling triple-0. Matthew Lee Williamson is facing a contested sentencing hearing in the Supreme Court after he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Kyhesha-Lee Joughin, but said he never hurt […]
Worst-ever coral bleaching event goes into unprecedented 4th year
It’s a catastrophe for coral reefs. Sea surface temperatures are so high across much of the tropics that many reefs will suffer severe bleaching for an unprecedented fourth year in a row. Divers in Australia are already reporting new bleaching in the northern part of the Great Barrier Reef, where last year half of corals […]
4 US tourists and pilot killed in Melbourne shopping mall plane crash
An Australian pilot and four American tourists on a golfing vacation were killed when a light plane crashed in flames into a shopping mall on Tuesday shortly after takeoff in the Australian city of Melbourne, officials said. The five were on a twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air that crashed about 45 minutes before the Direct […]
More than 140,000 families cut off from childcare payments for not vaccinating their kids
More than 140,000 families have been cut off from receiving childcare benefits for failing to vaccinate their children. The first figures from the Federal Government’s “No jab, no pay” policy show parents in Adelaide city and the Gold Coast Hinterland were most likely to not vaccinate their children. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt told TODAY […]
Hundreds of whales dead after mass stranding in New Zealand’s Farewell Spit in Golden Bay
Desperate efforts are underway to save dozens of pilot whales still alive after hundreds stranded themselves on a New Zealand beach, in the third largest mass stranding in the country’s history. At least 250 whales were already dead of 400 found beached on Farewell Spit in Golden Bay on the tip of the South Island […]
World’s longest commercial flight lands in New Zealand after a 16-hour flight
The world’s longest commercial flight landed in New Zealand Monday with the arrival of Qatar Airways’s 14,535-kilometer (9,032-mile) Doha-Auckland service, the airline announced. “We have officially landed in Auckland,” the airline tweeted as flight QR920 landed at 7.25 a.m. (1825 GMT Sunday), five minutes ahead of schedule after a 16-hour 23-minute flight. The long-range Boeing […]
7% of Priests in Australia’s Catholic Church Accused of Sexually Abusing Children
Seven percent of priests in Australia’s Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said Monday as officials investigating institutional abuse across Australia revealed for the first time the extent of the crisis. The statistics were released during the opening address of a hearing of Australia’s Royal Commission […]
Sydney housing world’s second-most expensive
Sydney has been named as the second most expensive city in the world and “severely unaffordable” when it comes to the cost of housing, the only place more expensive is Hong Kong. According to the study undertaken by Demographia, Sydney ranked above other global cities traditionally associated with expensive real estate such as Los Angeles, […]
