Rod McGUIRK
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PwC Australia sidelines 9 directors as leak of tax information investigated
The Australian branch of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy network has ordered nine partners to go on leave while an inquiry examines the leaking of confidential Australian tax avoidance policy changes to corporate clients who could benefit from t... → Read More
Australian Indigenous TV Host Quits Over Racist Backlash
Prominent Indigenous journalist Stan Grant quit after viewers responded with racist abuse to his comments during King Charles III's coronation about historic Aboriginal dispossession. → Read More
Australian Indigenous TV host quits program over racist backlash
Prominent Indigenous journalist Stan Grant has quit television hosting duties in response to online racist abuse over his comments on historic Aboriginal dispossession → Read More
Australian Indigenous TV host quits program over racist backlash
Prominent Indigenous journalist Stan Grant will step away from television hosting duties after viewers responded with racist abuse to his comments on historic Aboriginal dispossession → Read More
China lifts ban on Australian timber imports in another sign of improving bilateral relations
China has opened its doors to Australian timber imports for the first time in more than two years, in another sign that the tattered bilateral relationship is being repaired → Read More
Australia forecasts first annual budget surplus in 15 years
The Australian government has forecast the nation’s first balanced annual budget in 15 years but warns that economic pressures such as inflation will push the country into deeper debt in future years → Read More
Australian central bank hikes interest rate to 3.85%
Australia’s central bank has surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.85% despite pausing its climb last month and new evidence that inflation is slowing → Read More
Australian pleads guilty to killing gay American man in 1988
Scott White's admission comes three months after he had his conviction for murdering Scott Johnson overturned by an appeals court. → Read More
Australia adds $300 million in funding for Indigenous pledge
Fifteen years after the Australian Parliament’s historic apology to its Indigenous people for past wrongs, the government is announcing roughly $300 million in new funding to improve the lives of Australia’s original inhabitants → Read More
Australian Defense Department to remove Chinese-made cameras
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese Communist Party-linked companies from its buildings, the government said Thursday after th… → Read More
Nick Kyrgios pleads guilty to assault, has no conviction recorded
Nick Kyrgios had suffered severe depression, suicidal ideation and insomnia in the past, a psychologist told a court on Friday → Read More
Tennis Star Nick Kyrgios Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Ex-Girlfriend But Avoids Conviction Record
Nick Kyrgios pleaded guilty to assaulting former girlfriend Chiara Passari during an argument in January 2021. → Read More
King Charles III Won’t Appear on Australia’s New $5 Bill
A new Indigenous design will replace the previous portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II on Australia’s new $5 bill, a move which honors the "history of the First Australians." → Read More
Official: Australia could deny Ye entry over antisemitism
An Australian government minister says rapper Ye could be refused a visa due to antisemitic comments if he attempts to visit Australia → Read More
Cardinal Pell, whose convictions were overturned, dies at 81
ROME (AP) — Cardinal George Pell, a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia on child sex abuse charges before his convictions we… → Read More
Cardinal Pell, whose convictions were overturned, dies at 81
Cardinal George Pell, a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who had sex abuse convictions overturned, has died → Read More
Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance
JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic. → Read More
Prosecutor drops Australian Parliament House rape charge
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian prosecutor on Friday dropped the rape charge of a woman who was allegedly assaulted in a parliamentary office after he determined that the stress of the tri… → Read More
Australia argues against 'endangered' Barrier Reef status
Australia's environmental minister argued that the country has already addressed several of the report's concerns over the world's largest coral reef. → Read More
UK minister says Australian submarines will assure neighbors
Britain's top envoy for the Indo-Pacific says Australia’s shift to nuclear-powered submarines will assure its South Pacific neighbors of the UK's commitment to regional security → Read More