Sydney : Prime Minister Tony Abbott denies that comments on China being unable to play a serious global leadership role by the head of his own department are provocative.Michael Thawley, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, expressed frank views at a forum at the Australian National University (ANU) yesterday.”[China is] not willing […]
Melbourne : Three teenagers have been killed after the car they were travelling in smashed into a tree east of Melbourne.The trio’s car veered off Phillip Road at Avonsleigh, just before 5:30pm, police said.The teenagers, two girls and a young man, died at the scene.A fourth man was taken to hospital with serious injuries.Police are […]
Melbourne : Heavily armed police carrying shields have stormed Melbourne’s maximum security prison in a bid to quell rioting prisoners. Chaotic scenes erupted inside the Metropolitan Remand Centre in Ravenhall as masked inmates brandishing sticks, bashed in doors and windows, and lit fires. Police at the scene said about 300 prisoners were involved in the […]
Sydney :Australia’s new army and navy helicopters have been proving difficult to start and stop in strong winds. The Defence Department has acknowledged there were problems with the MRH90 Taipans — a multi-role helicopter — during recent flight trials. “Some issues were encountered starting and stopping rotors under certain environmental conditions,” the Department said in […]
Sydney : Desperate and dispirited asylum seekers at the Australian-run detention centre on Nauru formed “suicide pacts”, identified themselves as numbers instead of by name, and were treated like animals by some guards, according to accounts by two social workers who worked at the centre. “There was single adult female.. there was a group of teenage […]