Australia’s new policy of turning back the boats has left asylum seekers in a desperate, deadening limbo
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Massive Port Projects Threaten Integrity of Australia’s Famed Great Barrier Reef
Plan to construct world’s largest coal port and 17 other ports has UNESCO worried
Forget the Sharks, Here Come the Crocs: Why Australia’s Monsters Are Multiplying
A supremely successful conservation program has crocodile numbers spiraling upward
Throw Another Government on the Barbie
Of all the laws that govern Australia, few feel as good as compulsory voting. At my polling booth in Bondi Public School in Sydney on Saturday’s general elections, voters formed an orderly line as volunteers handed out …
Murdoch Weathers Free Speech ‘Crap’ Storm
Anti-News Corp protest-ad denied airplay ahead of Australian general election
Australia’s Message to Asylum Seekers: Go Away
On April 26, 1976, a leaky fishing boat chugged into Darwin Harbour carrying five asylum seekers from South Vietnam. Their original destination had been Guam, but they changed course after a chance encounter with an Aussie …
G’Day Damascus: Australians Are Joining Syria’s Rebels in Surprising Numbers
A surprising number of foreign fighters joining the rebellion in Syria against the regime of President Bashar Assad hail from Down Under.
Rudd Redux: The High Electoral Stakes Behind Australia’s P.M. Switch
The swearing-in Thursday of Kevin Rudd as Australia’s Prime Minister — for the second time — is a political coup worthy of Game of Thrones and takes place just over three years after he was ousted by previous incumbent Julia …
Australia’s Aborigines Launch a Bold Legal Push for Independence
If a determined group of indigenous people get their way, the world’s newest country won’t be in Africa or the Balkans but on the eastern periphery of Australia’s outback. A bleak, foreboding, flood-prone savannah the size of …
Australia’s Costly Asylum-Seeker Policy Contributes to Nation’s Deficit Woes
When Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered the national budget yesterday, he blamed the nation’s $17.8 billion deficit on the stubbornly high Australian dollar, softening company-tax revenue and a slowdown of the China-driven …
Harsh Sentence a Warning to Australia’s Youthful Muslim Zealots
In almost any circumstance, pushing a police officer and kicking a police dog aren’t considered smart things to do. But does that behavior — even if it took place during the chaos and fury of a riot — deserve four years and …
Must-Reads from Around the World
The Australian government apologies for its forced adoption policy from the 1950s to ’70s, Brasilia turns to the U.N. to help prepare its World Cup stadium and the Archbishop of Canterbury has underlined the challenges facing the …
Must-Reads from Around the World
China plans to revamp government ministries, Singapore is picked as the most innovative city in Asia and Angola tries to save the endangered antelope.