The art project aiming to keep Australia’s Indigenous people out of jail | Indigenous Rights News

The art project aiming to keep Australia’s Indigenous people out of jail | Indigenous Rights News

Melbourne, Australia – More Indigenous people are behind bars in Australia than ever before, making them the world’s most imprisoned people. Despite making up 3.8 percent of the national population, Indigenous Australians make up 33 percent of the prison population and are 17 times more likely to be jailed than…

Australia’s Starc fit and ready for T20 World Cup after heatwave-hit IPL | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News

Australia’s Starc fit and ready for T20 World Cup after heatwave-hit IPL | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News

Starc took 17 wickets in 13 matches in Kolkata’s title-winning run at the IPL 2024 season that lasted two months. Mitchell Starc has dismissed fears the intense heat might have drained him during his Indian Premier League-winning exploits, with the Australian declaring he was fit and ready for the ICC…

Ancient humans lived in East Timor 44,000 years ago, archaeologists find | History News

Ancient humans lived in East Timor 44,000 years ago, archaeologists find | History News

Stone artefacts and animal bones found in a deep cave in northern East Timor offer new insights into where ancient humans lived more than 35,000 years before Egyptians built the first pyramids. Archaeologists from Australian and United Kingdom universities say thousands of stone artefacts and animal bones found in a…

‘Bring Julian home’: the Australian campaign to free Assange | Julian Assange News

‘Bring Julian home’: the Australian campaign to free Assange | Julian Assange News

Melbourne, Australia – At home in Australia, Julian Assange’s family and friends are preparing for his possible extradition to the United States, ahead of what could be his final hearing in the United Kingdom on Monday. Assange’s half-brother Gabriel Shipton, who spoke to Al Jazeera from Melbourne before flying to London,…

Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride jailed for six years | Human Rights News

Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride jailed for six years | Human Rights News

Former Australian Army lawyer David McBride has been sentenced to five years and eight months for revealing information about alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Supporters of McBride have long expressed his concern that the Australian government was more interested in punishing him for revealing information about war crimes rather…

Iranian man loses bid to be freed from Australian immigration detention | Migration News

Iranian man loses bid to be freed from Australian immigration detention | Migration News

Court rules detention can be justified when an individual is refusing to cooperate in their deportation. Australia’s High Court has dismissed a closely-watched bid by an Iranian asylum seeker demanding to be released from immigration detention because he feared being held indefinitely. The man has been resisting deportation from Australia…

Bodies of murdered Australian, US surfers identified in Mexico | Crime News

Bodies of murdered Australian, US surfers identified in Mexico | Crime News

The three men were killed during a camping and surfing trip along Mexico’s Pacific coast. Mexican authorities have confirmed the deaths of an American and two Australians who went missing in northern Mexico last week after the tourists’ parents identified their bodies. The bodies of Australian brothers Callum and Jake…

How students around the world are taking a stand for Gaza | Show Types

How students around the world are taking a stand for Gaza | Show Types

Students around the world are raising their voices to protest against Israel’s continuing war on Gaza. More than 50 universities across the United States have now established Palestine solidarity encampments, demanding action to stop Israel’s war on Gaza. What started as a student encampment at Columbia University in New York…

Australia’s Albanese declares ‘national crisis’ after killings of women | Women News

Australia’s Albanese declares ‘national crisis’ after killings of women | Women News

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has branded domestic violence a “national crisis” amid an outcry over the rise in the number of killings of women by their intimate partners, and pledged action to tackle the issue, including new funding to help survivors as well as a crackdown on misogynistic online…