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 […]
Vienna : Austria’s President on Friday tasked election-winner Sebastian Kurz with forming a government, putting the 31-year-old conservative on course to become the world’s youngest leader.Kurz, nicknamed “wunderwuzzi” (“whizz-kid”), is now expected to enter coalition talks with the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), potentially giving the European Union a fresh headache. Kurz’s People’s Party (OeVP) came first […]
Vienna : Austria’s shift to the right in a parliamentary election has paved the way for young conservative star Sebastian Kurz to become the next leader and opened a path for the resurgent far right to return to power. The People’s Party, which named 31-year-old Foreign Minister Kurz its leader only in May, secured a […]
SYDNEY : A crocodile is “highly likely” to have killed an elderly woman who wandered away from her aged-care home on Australia’s northeast coast, police said Friday. Clothing and a walking stick belonging to 79-year-old Anne Cameron were found along with human remains by a creek near the tourist town of Port Douglas on Thursday. Cameron, […]