ANKARA (AA) – Australia appointed its first anti-slavery commissioner to strengthen efforts aimed at “preventing and responding to modern slavery.” Chris Evans, a former senator and anti-human trafficking activist, will begin a five-year term on December 2, said a statement issued by Attorney General Mark Dreyfus’ office. “Modern slavery depri...
ISTANBUL (AA) – King Charles III has acknowledged “painful aspects” of British colonial rule amid calls for slavery reparations. This came during an address to leaders and representatives of 56 Commonwealth nations at a summit in Samoa Pacific nation. In a veiled reference to past slavery across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean during the Britis...
ISTANBUL (AA) – British King Charles III faced protest by an Indigenous lawmaker in Australia, telling the monarch the southern Pacific nation was not his land. Clad in a fur cloak, Senator Lidia Thorpe raised her voice to make Charles listen to her statement after the monarch delivered his speech in the Australian parliament. Secret [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton’s call to block fleeing Gazans from entering the country has triggered backlash from the government and civil society organizations. Calling for a stop to migration from the besieged Palestinian coast enclave, Dutton had said the arrival of people from a war zone to Australia ...
ANKARA (AA) – Australians supporting Palestine have urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government to impose sanctions against Israel for its actions in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of prosecutors gathered outside Sydney’s Town Hall during the ruling party Labor Party conference, where the prime minister also spoke to the parti...
Sydney, Australia — AFP Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese has appointed a special envoy to tackle anti-Semitism, promising to appoint an envoy on Islamophobia too. As in many countries, Palestine supporters in Australia have held street rallies and university protests against Israel’s brutally genocidal war on the b...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A team of Australian lawyers has referred Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an “accessory to genocide” in Gaza. He is the “first leader of a Western nation to be referred to the ICC under Article 15 of the Rome Statute,” said Birchgrove Legal, who filed the […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The world must “stand together against Islamophobia,” Australia’s foreign minister has said. Penny Wong’s remarks came after two mosques in Adelaide, South Australia, were hit by arson attacks last week, a development she said left her “appalled.” “All of us, including every political leader, must stand ...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia has jumped into the diplomatic fray between Canada and India over the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in the Canadian westernmost province of British Colombia, expressing its deep concern over alleged New Delhi involvement through its intelligence agency network. Australia is “deeply concerned̶...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia will hold a defining Indigenous rights referendum on October 14 to recognize the role of the country’s Aboriginal minorities in the Constitution. “On that day, every Australian will have a once-in-a-generation chance to bring our country together,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement as he announce...
