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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Australian National University (ANU) has expelled two students and taken disciplinary action against 10 others over Free Palestine protests and statements on campus. Beatrice Tucker, a visual arts last year student, was expelled and banned from campus after making comments on a radio program supporting the Palestinian...
ANKARA (AA) – A senior Australian minister has urged Israel to “abide by” the International Court of Justice (ICJ) order to halt its military assault on the southern Gaza Strip. The top UN court has ordered Tel Aviv to immediately cease its military offensive in Rafah and open the crossing between Egypt and Gaza to […]
Sydney, Australia – AFP An Australian judge has sentenced a former army lawyer to more than five years in jail for stealing secret defence files on the Afghanistan war and leaking them to the media. David McBride, who pleaded guilty in November to three charges of stealing and sharing military information, was given five years […]
ANKARA (AA) – Australia has added its voice to the growing opposition to the Israeli ground offensive into Rafah, warning that the impact of the operation will be “devastating.” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, in a post on X, said her “country has been clear about our objections to a major Israeli ground offensive into […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia hinted Tuesday at recognition of Palestinian statehood, according to media reports. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia would consider supporting a Palestinian state as part of the Mideast peace process. “The simple truth is that a secure and prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians will o...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned that Israel will lose support “unless it changes its course” in the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza. “October 7th was a ‘terrorist’ attack and the world was rightly very sympathetic to and in solidarity with Israel at that time,” Wong told the Australian F...
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 […]
Sydney, Australia – AFP The leaders of Australia, Canada and New Zealand on Thursday warned Israel against a potentially “catastrophic” ground offensive in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, amplifying a growing chorus of international concern. Urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “not to go down this path”, th...
SYDNEY / ISTANBUL (AA) An Israeli lobby group was behind the sacking of a journalist at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a report has claimed, citing a coordinated campaign which includes messaging on WhatsApp. It has triggered an in-house protest with staff threatening to walkout. Award-winning journalist and author Antoinette Lat...
