Alan Bond: Disgraced Australian entrepreneur dies aged 77

Alan Bond: Disgraced Australian entrepreneur dies aged 77

Sydney : Controversial Australian businessman Alan Bond has died at the age of 77, his family have announced.Mr Bond died on Friday morning at the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth days after undergoing heart surgery. Mr Bond, who was born in the UK, became one of Australia’s richest men, funding Australia’s shock win of the […]

Australia mass surveillance ‘among most aggressive’

Australia mass surveillance ‘among most aggressive’

Perth : Australia conducts one of the world’s most aggressive mass surveillance programmes, US journalist Glenn Greenwald has said.Mr Greenwald was one of the reporters who broke the 2013 story on internet surveillance by the UK and US.He told broadcaster ABC that Australia was “probably the country that has got away with things the most” […]

Australia-led MH370 search to be called off in 2016

Australia-led MH370 search to be called off in 2016

Canberra, June 4: The search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 led by Australia is expected to be called off early next year, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said on Thursday. Australia’s JACC, which is leading the arduous and expensive search in the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777, said it would not be […]

Australia greyhound report finds ‘barbaric’ cruelty

Australia greyhound report finds ‘barbaric’ cruelty

Perth : Animal cruelty is widespread in the Queensland greyhound racing industry, says an Australian government report. Its author, Alan MacSporran, QC, said the industry had failed systematically to assess and manage how animals were treated by trainers and racers. The report follows the release of footage earlier this year of trainers using live animals to bait […]