ABC News Breakfast host Lisa Millar will step away from her role on the flagship breakfast show after five years with the program. The veteran journalist announced she would farewell the show later this year to focus on other projects within the ABC but will remain a “regular presence” withinContinue Reading
Australia’s domestic spy agency wants to give up its right to request warrants to question children as young as 14 after it reported only a handful of minors had been charged with terror offences since 9/11. ASIO told a parliamentary inquiry that the federal government should scrap laws that enableContinue Reading
Tackling the growth of “misogynistic hate groups” is vital in the ongoing fight against violence towards women, a federal MP says.Appearing on the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night, Murray Watt said online media was being used in a way not possible before. “The growth of those misogynistic hate groupsContinue Reading
Australian officials are finding it increasingly harder to figure out when a terrorist attack may occur, in what the Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has described as a “trend”. After a 16-year-old boy allegedly stabbed a prominent Assyrian Christian bishop and priest at a southwest Sydney church on Monday night,Continue Reading
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Penny Wong’s speech suggesting the possible future recognition of a Palestinian state is the “most reckless act” by a foreign minister in two decades. In a speech on Wednesday night, Mr Dutton also said Senator Wong had added to “a national moral fog, which hasContinue Reading
More Aussie troops will be deployed to assist allied forces targeting Houthi militants in the Middle East, as parliament prepares to sit for the final day before the crucial Dunkley by-election. Source linkContinue Reading
Australia “ignored warnings” about the involvement of United Nations aid workers in Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and should not restore funding until concerns are alleviated, the Coalition says. On the weekend, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong confirmed Australia would join the US, the UK and others in pausingContinue Reading
Australia will impose new sanctions targeting individuals and businesses accused of funding and supporting terrorist groups in the Middle East. Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced further counter-terrorism and financing sanctions would be slapped on 12 people and three companies linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestine Islamic Jihad. According to theContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has condemned Hamas for attempting to use Australia’s support for a ceasefire in Gaza as propaganda, declaring he has nothing but “contempt” for the terrorist group. An unverified video released overnight showed a man purporting to be a senior Hamas official thanking Western nations, including Australia, for attemptingContinue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Balochistan caretaker Minister for Information, Jan Achakzai alleged Taliban of playing the double game instead of handing over the elements involved in terrorist attacks in Pakistan using Afghan soil, Pakistan-based Dawn reported.Achakzai said that the Taliban was not taking the issue seriously and was not handing over those involvedContinue Reading