All news on the topic: Australia

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Yung Filly to face retrial on three rape charges after Australian jury fails to reach verdict
British rapper and social media influencer Yung Filly will face a retrial on three charges of rape after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his initial trial in Australia.
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Scots College rape case: strict bail conditions imposed on three teenage accused
Media can reveal the strict bail conditions imposed on the so-called Scots College Three after two families retained globally recognised defamation lawyers.
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Sydney Airport gets green light for £3.1bn transformation set to reshape Australia’s busiest hub
The busiest airport in Australia has just received the green light for a multi-billion expansion project – expected to take 20 years to complete.
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Woman allegedly killed by former partner days after police sought protection order
A First Nations woman allegedly murdered by her former partner at a house south of Brisbane contacted police earlier this month seeking help over allegations of domestic violence, police have confirmed.
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British rapper Yung Filly found not guilty of rape, guilty of assault charges
British rapper and social media influencer Yung Filly has been found not guilty by a jury of raping a woman in an Australian hotel room.
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European goods reach Russia through India despite sanctions
Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.
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20 killed in deadliest year for antisemitic attacks outside Israel in three decades
Last year was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks outside of Israel in more than 30 years, according to a new report, with 20 people being killed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Canada ends golden streak for England after horrifying high bar fall rocks gymnastics final
A horror injury to England’s Gabriel Langton overshadowed his team’s silver medal in the men’s team gymnastics final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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Phoinexes, new Loanledger crypto Ponzi scam, tries to lure victims with fake rebirth promises and bogus AI trading claims
The Russian state security service — FSB — has been trying to implement AI in its anti-opposition operations for at least two years. IStories investigated how the development of the Pauk (“Spider”) system went — and why it was stopped (at least for now)
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Melbourne man charged over alleged $100,000 cocaine trafficking operation
A former Melbourne private schoolboy has been exposed as an alleged major supplier of cocaine to one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs.
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MoD report links Cold War secrecy to gaps in nuclear test veterans’ medical records
High levels of Cold War "secrecy" were a factor in the haphazard approach taken towards the medical records of nuclear test veterans, an official report has found.
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Police release new photos 25 years after Peter Falconio’s murder in bid to find his body
Police in Australia have released previously unseen photographs from their investigation into the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio 25 years ago.
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Jurassic Park legend Sam Neill dies unexpectedly aged 78 after beating cancer
The Northern Ireland-born star’s death was confirmed on his social media channels on Monday, after passing away in Sydney, Australia.
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Mother accused of murdering four-year-old son after allegedly confessing to police
A woman charged with murdering her four-year-old son walked into a police station and allegedly told cops she had cooked and eaten parts of him.
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Mystery "space balls" washing up on Australian beaches identified as debris from a foreign rocket
The Australian Space Agency has said the six so-called “space balls” found in north Queensland were likely from a “foreign rocket body” that had recently re-entered the atmosphere after being in orbit.
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Two EY employees sacked after alleged breach of Australian PM Anthony Albanese’s banking data
Two Ernst and Young employees have been sacked after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s personal banking information was allegedly breached while the pair worked for the accounting firm at the Commonwealth Bank.
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British actress charged over alleged £157m meth smuggling plot into Australia
A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with trying to smuggle 320kg of meth into Australia from West Africa.
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Ian Vaevaso faces tribunal after claims he dumped meth evidence into the sea
The immediate suspension of Ian Vaevaso follows an investigative report revealing he destroyed confiscated methamphetamine before becoming top cop.
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Girl, 12, finds huge boa constrictor blocking her golf ball in Darlington
A young Brit golfer was left gobsmacked after she chased her golf ball to a hole on a UK course - only to find it had settled on a snake measuring a whopping six feet.
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Kendall admits under-16 social media ban is no "silver bullet" as tech backlash grows
The social media ban for under-16s is not a “silver bullet”, the Technology Secretary acknowledged as she faced a backlash from firms which will be hit by the restriction.
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New Zealand bank ASB fined $6.7m after failing to vet billions in transactions
The $6.7 million fine ASB has agreed to pay for insufficiently vetting billions of dollars of transactions for money laundering is putting the spotlight on the law in New Zealand.
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Starmer announces under-16 social media ban as parents cheer historic crackdown
All children under the age of 16 will be banned from using social media, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.
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O’Neill questions Starmer’s under-16 social media ban timing before Makerfield vote
The Northern Ireland First Minister queried whether the move was ‘more about internal Labour Party politics than what is right’.
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Lifeguard rescues woman after 11ft white shark drags her underwater at Sydney beach
A woman was attacked by an 11ft white shark while swimming off a popular beach near Sydney.
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Woman critically injured in shark attack just 30 metres from Sydney’s Coogee Beach
Emergency services were called to Coogee Beach in the east of Sydney, Australia’s largest city, in the morning on reports that the 35-year-old woman had been bitten by a large shark about 30 meters (100 feet) from the shore.