Rod McGUIRK
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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
Australian inquiry asks whether mom smothered her 4 children
An Australian inquiry has began investigating whether a woman convicted almost two decades ago of smothering her four children to death might be innocent → Read More
Australia blames Russians for health insurance data theft
Australian officials say Moscow must he held to account for Russian cybercriminals accused of hacking Australia’s largest health insurer and dumping customers’ personal medical records on the dark web → Read More
Abortions exposed among Australian health insurer customers
Extortionists have dumped stolen client records relating to pregnancy terminations on the dark web in their latest effort to pressure Australia’s largest health insurer to pay a ransom → Read More
Hacker publishes Australian health insurer's customer data
Client data of Australia’s largest health insurance company has been published by an extortionist following through on a threat to do so → Read More
Report: China targets 2 diplomatic allies with Pacific aid
The Lowy Institute reports Beijing is targeting its Pacific aid to new diplomatic allies Solomon Islands and Kiribati while Chinese financial support across the region continues to decline → Read More
Australian health insurer says data of all customers hacked
Australia’s largest health insurer says a cybercriminal has hacked the personal data of all its 4 million customers, as the government introduced legislation that would increase penalties for companies that fail to protect clients’ private information → Read More