Here’s the speech that prompted Australia’s misogyny definition change (Video)
Policymakers’ floor speeches don’t often capture the public’s attention, so it’s even more unusual that a recent rant by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard resulted in an actual dictionary...
View ArticleBizarre video: Australia’s leader jokes about zombie, K-Pop, the apocalypse
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard released this 50-second clip in which she appears to address the nation, formally warning that the end of the world is nigh and that the Mayan calendar...
View ArticleWhat happened when a travel writer flew to Iran with no tourist visa or...
Australian travel writer Nate Robert is definitely not the first Western tourist to visit Iran. Some European travel companies still run regular group tours, and though tourism is definitely not what...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ spy scandal
You might have heard something about the “Prisoner X” story, a complicated scandal, stretching from Israel to Australia, that involves espionage, a mysterious death and press censorship. Here, to help...
View ArticleToday’s Reads: Riches in Australia, memory in Iraq
1) New Yorker: The Miner’s Daughter A fascinating profile of Gina Rinehart, an Australian iron mining magnate who is one of the world’s wealthiest people and could soon become, if her latest venture is...
View ArticleAustralian newspaper runs greatest-ever front-page crocodile joke
Here is Friday’s front page from the NT News, an Australian paper that covers the rural Northern Territory. The conservative-leaning outlet is owned by News Corp, best known in the U.S. for its...
View ArticleWhy a U.S. ambassador asked Australians to stop pirating ‘Game of Thrones’
The U.S. ambassador to Australia loves “Game of Thrones,” and he would really, really like Australians to stop downloading pirated copies of the HBO show. On April 23 — “U.N. World Book and Copyright...
View ArticleVideo: Kids keep throwing sandwiches at Australian PM Julia Gillard
A student threw a salami sandwich at Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard during an appearance at a Canberra high school Thursday — which is, improbably, the second time a student has lobbed a...
View ArticleLast vestiges of the British empire complicate royal baby’s succession to the...
When Kate Middleton and Prince William reveal their child to the world, presumably before the end of the day, they will be presenting the heir to the throne of not just the United Kingdom but all 16 of...
View ArticleWhy Anonymous hacked the tiny, impoverished island nation of Nauru
Nauru, a tiny, Pacific island nation with fewer than 10,000 people and $60 million to its name, recently found itself under cyberattack by Anonymous, the informal “hacktivist” collective best known for...
View ArticleMeet the world’s least effective anti-Islam political candidate
Australian media are giving a rough welcome to Stephanie Banister, a novice politician who is running for a legislative seat in a suburban district under the ticket of One Nation, a controversial...
View ArticleThe Daily Show’s cringe-filled tour of Australian politics
The premise of the segment is that although Australia’s election cycle is only four short weeks long, compared to the unofficial three or four years in U.S. presidential campaigns, it still manages to...
View ArticleAustralia had a government shutdown once. In the end, the queen fired...
The United States' self-imposed federal government shutdown has a way of making people around the world shake their heads in bewilderment. As Georgetown professor Erik Voeten wrote for The Washington...
View ArticleHow British colonialism determined whether your country celebrates Halloween
Halloween is a controversial day in Australia. The holiday is not traditionally observed there widely, but kids are still aware of it from TV and movies. So, every year, an increasing number of...
View ArticleConflicting reports of potential Flight 370 pings shows China’s confused...
As the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 enters its second month, an all-too-rare glimmer of good news has been found: On Sunday, an Australian navy vessel reported signals “consistent”...
View ArticleThe four-year-old tweet that came back to haunt Australia’s prime minister
The Speaker's resignation reflects a government that is in chaos. The Govt has lost its way, lost its majority and now lost its speaker. — Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) November 24, 2011 Twitter is a...
View ArticleAustralia blocks sale of Ireland-sized chunk of land to private Chinese company
The Australian government on Friday blocked once and for all a bid that would have seen a chunk of its land the size of Ireland — or more than 1 percent of the country's total landmass — sold to a...
View ArticleTwo years after it vanished, the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will...
The search for the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared more than two years ago with hundreds aboard will be suspended if the aircraft isn't found in the shrinking current search area, officials...
View ArticleWhy a gay senator in Australia opposes a public vote on marriage equality
As the Australian Parliament weighs whether to hold a countrywide vote on marriage equality, the plebiscite's loudest critics have been LGBT advocates themselves. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull...
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