Sydney, Australia — AFP Australia has followed Europe and the United States by imposed on illegal Israeli settlers accused of “beatings, sexual assault and torture” of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced financial sanctions and travel bans on seven individuals and the Hilltop Youth ra...
A massive global Microsoft outage on Friday caused significant disruptions across various sectors, from aviation to banking. In Australia, it disrupted news broadcasts, supermarket checkouts, and police systems. Melbourne Airport reported that check-ins had been affected, while Virgin Australia grounded all flights at Sydney Airport. In Europe...
ANKARA (AA) – An investigative documentary aired by a local broadcaster shines a spotlight on Australia’s treatment of children from indigenous communities. CCTV footage shows indigenous children being placed in isolation cells in a state of distress. One video features a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, referred to as Sam, being put into an...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Disciplinary hearing has begun for 21 students at Melbourne University for participating in a Free Palestine sit-in protest. The hearings began on Wednesday, with dozens of people, including students and academics, gathering to show their support for the accused students. They had earlier received “general misconduc...
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) – The University of Melbourne is being investigated for violating privacy laws by using surveillance to identify students participating in a sit-in protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, according to the local media. Twenty-one student protesters at the university were previously served with “general mi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Australian Senator Fatima Payman has quit the ruling Labor Party, calling on the government to match its words with actions. “Our actions must align with our principles,” Payman said, who was suspended by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese from parliamentary work after she supported a motion to recognize Palestin...
ANKARA (AA) – Supporters of the global Palestine liberation movement in Australia on Thursday scaled the roof of the parliament house in the capital Canberra, unfurling banners and chanting slogans. Four people stood on the roof of the building for about an hour, rolling out several banners, with such slogans as “No peace on stolen [&hel...
Australian senator Fatima Payman from the ruling Labor Party has been “indefinitely suspended” from the party caucus. This was after she backed a motion to recognize Palestine as a state. Payman had been suspended after a conversation with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the official residence Lodge, she told the Australian Broadcasting Co...
Canberra, Australia — AFP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “marvelling at the horizon” as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London high-security prison, his wife has said. The 52-year-old landed in Canberra the night before, hours after pleading guilty in a US Pacific island court to a single co...
