Australia

Australia

Australia to limit foreign student enrolments in migration crackdown

Australia said on Tuesday it would limit the enrolment number of international students at 270,000 for 2025, as the government looks to rein in record migration that has contributed to a spike in home rental prices

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Australia gives millions of workers ‘right to disconnect’

Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to “disconnect” yesterday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours calls, emails and texts from their bosses.

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Hottest oceans in 400 years endanger Great Barrier Reef

Water temperatures in and around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have risen to their warmest in 400 years over the past decade, placing the world’s largest reef under threat, according to research published yesterday.

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Australia bans uranium mining at Indigenous site

Australia yesterday moved to ban mining at one of the world’s largest high-grade uranium deposits, highlighting the site’s “enduring connection” to Indigenous Australians.

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Australia doubles foreign student visa fees

Australia said yesterday it had more than doubled the visa fee for international students, the latest move by the government to rein in record migration that has intensified pressure on an already tight housing market.

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Australia doubles foreign student visa fee in migration crackdown

Australia said on Monday it had more than doubled the visa fee for international students, the latest move by the government to rein in record migration that has intensified pressure on an already tight housing market

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Assange back home as a free man

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange landed to an ecstatic welcome in Australia yesterday after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law in a deal that sets him free from a 14-year legal battle.

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WikiLeaks founder Assange returns home a free man

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man today after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell

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Espionage Charge: Assange set to be freed after US plea deal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty today to violating US espionage law, in a deal that will set him free after a 14-year British legal odyssey and allow his return home to Australia.

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Hundreds feared dead in Papua New Guinea village

Hundreds are feared dead after a massive landslide flattened dozens of homes and buried families alive in a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea (PNG) early yesterday, a resident said.

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Australian PM calls China warplane conduct ‘unacceptable’

Australia yesterday chastised China over its “unacceptable” behaviour in international airspace, accusing a Chinese warplane of firing flares in the path of one of its navy helicopters.

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'Radicalised' 16-year-old shot dead by police in Australia

Western Australian police shot and killed a "radicalised" 16-year-old boy with a knife who had stabbed a man in a Perth car park, police and the state premier said Sunday

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7 arrested in Australian ‘terrorism’ raids

Australian police arrested seven teenagers in a wave of anti-terror raids yesterday, with top officers claiming the network may have been plotting an attack and posed an “unacceptable risk” to the public.

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Sydney's Bondi Westfield mall reopens for tributes after fatal stabbings

Sydney's Bondi Westfield mall on Thursday reopened for the first time since a man with a knife killed six people there on Saturday before police shot him

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Australia unveils new defence strategy, with eye on China

Australia unveiled its first National Defence Strategy yesterday, signalling a new focus on deterring China’s “coercive tactics” in a region seen as lurching towards conflict.

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Sydney church stabbing was ‘terrorist act’

Australian police yesterday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a “terrorist act” motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days.

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Sydney church stabbing called 'terrorist' act, teen detained

Australian police on Tuesday said a brutal knife attack during a live-streamed church service was a religiously motivated "terrorist" act, as they urged calm from the angered local community

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Four hurt in Sydney church attack

A knife attack at a live-streamed church service in Australia wounded four people yesterday and sparked clashes between riot police and outraged members of the local community.

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