Masha Gessen on voicing dissent in Russia
Masha is a Russian American journalist and author who strongly opposes Vladimir Putin's regime.
View ArticleUncle Ho protest prompts owners to change name of Vietnamese restaurant in...
Owners of the Uncle Ho Vietnamese restaurant in the inner Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley say they will change the name after a protest and death threats.
View ArticleJohnny Depp's dogs: Amber Heard pleads guilty over Boo and Pistol quarantine...
Amber Heard pleads guilty to falsifying quarantine documents over the smuggling of her two Yorkshire terriers into Australia last year while flying into the country to visit husband Johnny Depp.
View ArticleJohnny Depp's dogs: Amber Heard given good behaviour bond over Pistol and Boo...
Johnny Depp's wife Amber Heard is handed a one-month good behaviour bond with no conviction recorded after smuggling her two Yorkshire terriers into Australia last year while visiting her husband.
View ArticleNauru refugee who set himself on fire in critical condition in Brisbane hospital
An Iranian refugee who set himself on fire at the Nauruan detention centre is still in a critical condition, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirms.
View ArticleBrisbane activists demand better treatment of refugees on Manus Island and Nauru
Hundreds of protesters against the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres gather in Brisbane following the death of Iranian refugee Omid, who died after setting himself on fire on Nauru.
View ArticleNauru refugee who set himself on fire dies in Brisbane hospital
Peter Dutton says "appropriate support" is being provided to the family of a refugee who has died in a Brisbane hospital after setting himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre.
View ArticleNauru refugee who set herself alight arrives in Brisbane for treatment
A Somali refugee who set herself alight in the Nauru detention centre arrives in Brisbane for treatment, in the second such incident in a week.
View ArticleNauru medical services defended by Peter Dutton after emergency evacuation of...
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says the quality of hospital medical services for pregnant women in asylum seeker detention on Nauru is adequate after a woman and her newborn baby were airlifted to...
View ArticleFirst homebuyers to get extra $5,000 in Queensland budget
The first home grant in Queensland will be increased to $20,000 in next Tuesday's state budget, with foreign buyers slugged with a new tax to help pay for infrastructure.
View ArticleLiz Tynan on the secret history of Maralinga
British nuclear testing on Australian ground: cover-ups, aftershocks and contamination.
View ArticleBorder protection policies cost Australia $10b in three years, international...
The Federal Government has spent almost $10 billion on offshore processing, mandatory detention and other border protection policies since 2013, according to aid organisations Save the Children and...
View ArticleBrisbane soldiers welcomed home from Middle East deployment
About 1,000 soldiers from the 7th Brigade march through the centre of Brisbane as a formal welcome home from deployment in the Middle East.
View ArticleManmeet Alisher: Narendra Modi calls Malcolm Turnbull to express concern over...
India's PM Narendra Modi has called Malcolm Turnbull to express concern over the killing of Indian-born Brisbane bus driver Manmeet Alisher, who was burnt to death at a bus stop last week.
View ArticleTrump victory set to fuel unconventional political activism in Hanson...
Donald Trump's shocking victory on the heels of an equally surprising Brexit vote in the UK is rattling the major parties in Australia, and in the Queensland city of Ipswich people could not be happier.
View ArticleFaysal Ahmed's family not told of his death, refugees 'treated with...
The Federal Government has not notified the family of a Sudanese refugee from Manus Island who died in a Brisbane hospital on Christmas Eve, a refugee advocate says.
View ArticleTaiwanese pair to be deported over Brisbane slave house scam
Two Taiwanese men plead guilty to helping run a criminal syndicate using dozens of foreign nationals in Brisbane slave houses as part of a scam targeting China.
View ArticleUSS Ronald Reagan arrives into Brisbane port, thousands of US sailors to holiday
Thousands of American sailors flood into Brisbane for a well-earned shore break after the arrival of the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan.
View ArticleTalisman Sabre: Australian and US army exercise wraps up in Brisbane
Three weeks after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, and with the United States reportedly expecting another launch soon, there is little doubt Exercise Talisman Sabre served as...
View ArticleQueensland policy to prioritise local businesses despite trade agreements...
The New Zealand Government issues a public invitation to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to discuss a "crazy" and "possibly illegal" decision to ignore trade agreements, which could threaten...
View ArticleCommonwealth Games: Missing athletes could be genuine refugees, advocates say
Some of the African Commonwealth Games athletes who have gone missing could prove to have legitimate claims for asylum, and might also be attractive to authorities as potential Australian competitors,...
View ArticleCameroon team chief says he's heard nothing from missing athletes
The head of Cameroon's Commonwealth Games team says he flies home today but has still not heard from eight athletes who went missing last week.
View ArticlePredator gets deported for sexually assaulting, filming backpackers in Brisbane
An Italian man with "voyeuristic fantasies" who sexually assaulted female backpackers and filmed them naked in Brisbane hostels is jailed for five years, with the sentence suspended so he can be deported.
View ArticleFrom Neo-Nazi to militant: The foreign fighters in Ukraine who Australia's...
A former Australian soldier and Neo-Nazi shares why he joined a right-wing war in Ukraine, wielding rocket launchers and grenades, in a battle he was legally able to fight.
View ArticleWar hero gets fire-ravaged medal reissued by France after State Government...
The French Government presents Brisbane war hero Bob Jackson with a brand new Medal of Honour after his original was destroyed in a fire that gutted his house and claimed the lives of his two beloved...
View ArticleMissing Commonwealth Games athletes' visas expire at midnight, Sydney refugee...
A refugee legal advice service confirms athletes missing after the Commonwealth Games have contacted their centre in Sydney, with the 19 international visitors having until midnight to apply for...
View ArticleImmigration authorities 'fast-tracking' some athlete asylum applications,...
A leading refugee lawyer says Australian authorities appear to be expediting the asylum applications of overseas athletes and sports officials who remained in Australia after the Commonwealth Games.
View ArticleClimate change-related disaster relief is increasing demand on Defence...
Australia's Defence Department has spelled out clearly to a Senate enquiry that climate change is increasing demand and will create "concurrency pressures" for the Defence Force as a rise in disaster...
View ArticleTamil family from Biloela handed deportation notice despite 21-day appeal period
Australian Border Force officials are being called "underhanded" for issuing a Friday-night deportation notice to a Tamil family from central Queensland, even though they still have three weeks to...
View ArticleTamil family members from Biloela spared imminent deportation pending new appeal
Two members of a Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela are spared imminent deportation after the Federal Court in Melbourne rules they can stay in Australia for the time being.
View ArticleUS soldier charged with assaulting woman, 60, at Brisbane army barracks
Queensland police charge a US Marine with the assault of a 60-year-old woman in the carpark of Brisbane's Gallipoli Barracks. The Marine also allegedly assaulted a police officer.
View ArticleQueensland man living in Bali arrested for cocaine possession after police raid
A Queensland man living in Bali has been arrested on drug charges after police raided his house and allegedly found several bags of cocaine under the floor of his house.
View ArticleMan arrested on cocaine charges in Bali has history of drug use, family says
The stepfather of a Queensland man facing allegations of selling cocaine in Bali says his son has a long history of minor drug issues.
View ArticleBikies infiltrator 'outed by Australian authorities' given Canadian refugee...
Former Bandidos insider Stevan Utah was an informant for the Australian Crime Commission, but now he has become the country's first known refugee and been given asylum in Canada on the grounds the...
View ArticleAustralian bikie infiltrator's refugee case shows police informants 'could...
A lawyer issues a warning to future police informants that his bikie gang client was "hung out to dry" by Australian authorities and had to seek asylum in Canada after his cover was accidently blown...
View ArticleSeizure may have caused Brisbane teen to drown in Bali pool just weeks after...
Justin Mace believes his teenage daughter Kristen suffered an epileptic seizure that ended in her drowning in a pool at the weekend while on holiday in Bali. The tragedy has also hit just weeks after...
View ArticleUQ research student accused of sending US radar equipment to Iran
University of Queensland scholarship research student Reza Dehbashi Kivi is in custody facing extradition to the United States, accused of exporting military radar equipment to the Iranian Government.
View ArticleMigrant workers are the worst paid and 'unlikely to complain about stolen wages'
Migrant workers in agriculture are among the worst paid in the country and most are suffering in silence, according to new research.
View ArticleMike Pence staying in Cairns during APEC summit in Papua New Guinea as...
Queensland is preparing for the arrival of world leaders, including United States Vice-President Mike Pence, who will attend the APEC summit in Papua New Guinea, but stay in Cairns.
View ArticleTamil family from Biloela hope to take their fight against deportation to...
A Tamil asylum seeker family from regional Queensland hopes to take its case to the High Court, after its appeal against a deportation order was rejected by the Federal Court.
View ArticleThe foreign actors making their careers in China's propaganda films
As China seeks to expand its global influence, it's pouring money into "patriotic" films, requiring thousands of foreigners including many Australians to fill the roles.
View ArticleTreaty on HFCs aims to curb global warming from greenhouse gases in air...
An explosion in demand for air conditioners around the world is alarming climate change experts and now a treaty has come into effect to limit the environmental damage.
View ArticleQueensland man Brendon Johnsson jailed in Bali for drug possession, stepdad...
Former Sunshine Coast man Brendon Johnsson is jailed for five years in Bali for possessing 12 grams of cocaine in an outcome his stepfather welcomes, saying Johnson has to "pay the price" for his...
View ArticleAustralia's travel warnings treat developing nations unfairly, experts say
Diplomatic and academic experts say Australia's travel warnings can be biased against developing nations and its advice varies "depending on the country involved, not necessarily the risk".
View ArticleAustralian bureaucrats in the dark about Bandidos informant granted asylum in...
The Federal Government found itself blindsided by the case of the first known refugee from Australia, who found asylum in Canada on the grounds that local authorities blew his cover as a crime gang...
View ArticleTamil family from Biloela loses last legal bid to avoid being deported
A Tamil family facing deportation who had been living at Biloela in central Queensland lose a bid to have their case reviewed by the High Court. Supporters of Priya and Nades and their two...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea refuses deportation bid by Australian Government, Gus Kuster...
An attempt by Australian authorities to deport a convicted criminal to Papua New Guinea fails when authorities in that country refuse the man entry and send him back to Australia.
View ArticleAustralian Government secrecy has family battling for answers over refugee...
Australian Government secrecy around a refugee who set himself on fire on Nauru has left his family pleading for answers in a case that has caused diplomatic friction with Pakistan.
View ArticleIranian University of Queensland student avoids extradition to United States,...
University of Queensland research student Reza Dehbashi Kivi arrives home in Iran after avoiding being extradited to the United States.
View ArticleWhat we know about Iranian scientist Reza Dehbashi Kivi, who was released...
Australia had him, the US wanted him, and now he's back home in Iran. So who is Reza Dehbashi Kivi?
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