Australia

Dargan cave findings reveal humans lived in Australia's Blue Mountains during last Ice Age

The findings upended long-held beliefs about how humans moved through the mountains and challenges long-held assumptions about ancient human life in Australia.

 Blue Mountains National Park, Australia.
 A PRO-PALESTINIAN rally is held outside Sydney Opera House, last month. From Sydney to New York, thousands called for the genocide of millions of Jews, celebrating October 7 as an act of defiance against evil.

Time for Australia to follow US lead in crackdown on campus antisemitism - opinion

 Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Oysayd.

'Most important Jihadist in Sydney': Australian Jewish body takes antisemitic, IS preacher to court

 PRO-PALESTINIAN banner hangs in the forecourt of the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, July 2024.

When fact becomes fiction: How Israeli victims became aggressors as antisemitism rises - opinion


Australian mushroom murders accused gives her account of fatal lunch

The prosecution alleges she knowingly served the guests lethal death cap mushrooms in a Beef Wellington at her home in Leongatha, a town of around 6,000 people, 84 miles from Melbourne.

 Prosecutors allege Ms Patterson murdered her relatives using a beef Wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.

Watchdog probe finds Albanese lied about funding sources for Australia, NZ visits

The UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine accepted around $20,000 in payment from pro-Hamas groups in order to fund her trips to Australia and New Zealand in late 2023.

 Press briefing by Francesca Albanese, Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories at UN Headquarters on October 27, 2022.

Archaeologists discover wreck of Dutch ship lost for 168 years off Australian coast

The ship was transporting gold seekers and Chinese immigrants to Victoria during the Victorian Gold Rush.

 Archaeologists discover wreck of Dutch ship lost for 168 years off Australian coast.

Australia's Labor Party must fix Israel ties, fight antisemitism - opinion

Perhaps the most damaging of ALP’s policies is support, in principle, for a Palestinian state before a peace agreement is negotiated

 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia November 29, 2024.

Grapevine, May 7, 2025: No rest for the righteous

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 US AMBASSADOR Mike Huckabee.

Australian Jewish groups express concern, disappointment as Albanese secures second term

"For the first time in history, many Jews in this country felt they had to justify their place in Australian society," ZFA president Jeremy Leibler said.

 Anthony Albanese, Australia's prime minister, center, with his partner Jodie Haydon, right, and his son Nathan Albanese at the Labor Party election night event in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday, May 3, 2025.

Australian elections will not determine Israel's fate, but could divide Jewish community - opinion

With looming elections and the lingering trauma of October 7 — along with a disturbing surge in antisemitism in Australia— it’s becoming harder to find common ground among Jewish voters.

 People queue to vote outside a pre-polling centre in Sydney, Australia, April 29, 2025.

What is an incel? Inside the ideology likely behind Leed's 'Otley Run massacre' - explainer

Police reportedly believe the Leeds attack suspect may have been motivated partly by incel ideology.

Memorial flowers are placed in a bullet hole in the window of a deli that was one of nine crime scenes after a series of drive-by shootings that left seven people dead in the Isla Vista neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California May 25, 2014. Twenty-two year old Elliot Rodger killed six people before

Mushroom murder trial of 2023 case begins in rural Australia

Elin Patterson is charged with the murders of her parents-in-law and a third family member, who died after she served them a lunch of poisonous mushrooms.

 Prosecutors allege Ms Patterson murdered her relatives using a beef Wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.

Miniature dachshund survives alone for over 500 days in Australian wilderness

Georgia Gardner and Joshua Fishlock momentarily left the young pup in a playpen while camping off Australia’s coast, but returned to find her missing.

Valerie, a beloved miniature dachshund lost during a camping trip in November 2023, has been recovered alive and well after spending 529 days in the Australian wilderness.

Man arrested for smuggling Sydney caravan terror suspect out of Australia

Sayet Erhan Akca, who fled Australia in 2023 after a warrant for his arrest was issued, is wanted as a high-level suspect.

Australian Federal Police