Sydney : A huge cocaine haul hidden in the hull of a yacht has been seized off the east coast of Australia, police said on Thursday. Some 700 kilos (1,543 pounds) of the drug with an estimated street value of USD 186 million were intercepted on Wednesday about 100 kilometres north of Sydney, they said. Three […]
Melbourne : Australian lawmakers on Thursday vowed to push through laws legalising same-sex marriage by early December, after a national survey found the majority of Australians favoured the move. Both Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal-National coalition government and the main opposition Labor Party said they were aiming to pass the law through parliament by December […]
Melbourne, November 12 : A 24-year-old Indian-origin woman was on Sunday found killed with injuries on her body at her house in New Zealand’s Auckland city, media reports said. Arishma Archana Singh, who lived with her three-year-old daughter and parents at the Maich road house, was found lying “in a pool of blood” on the […]
Sydney, November 11 : Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he would not call a General Election after a citizenship crisis claimed another Member of Parliament on Saturday, leaving his government clinging to power with the support of two Independents. Australia’s Constitution bars dual nationals from Parliament, and Turnbull’s centre-right coalition government was thrown into […]
Sydney : Australia’s multimillion dollar broadband network is under attack – from cockatoos. The National Broadband Network (NBN) company said it has spent tens of thousands of dollars so far fixing cables chewed by the birds. Australian broadband is already criticised for being slow. According to a recent report it ranks 50th in the world for […]