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Premier Jacinta Allan
A man gestures from the top of the eastern pylon of the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne on Tuesday. Photo: EPA
Australia

Vandal demands peanut butter sandwich to end Australian bridge stand-off

Police believe the bridge climber is the serial vandal responsible for the Pam the Bird graffiti appearing across Melbourne.

China manufacturing

Boring China: how Chinese firms are creating a new breed of tunnelling machine

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Canada

Canadian cruise passenger gets a presumptive positive hantavirus test result

Australia

Huge blaze at Australian refinery threatens petrol supply amid global oil crisis

The Geelong plant is one of only two operating oil refineries in Australia and supplies 10 per cent of the country’s total demand.

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Flames shoot out from the Viva Oil Refinery in Geelong early Thursday morning. Photo: Handout/Giuliana Elakis/AFP
Australia

‘Coward’: police killer shot dead after 7-month manhunt in Australia

A survivalist conspiracy theorist who used bushcraft to evade officers is dead, ending one of Australia’s largest-ever manhunts.

Australia

Australian drug lord Tony Mokbel walks free: ‘I don’t regret anything’

The court dropped a planned retrial for the Melbourne mobster, who inspired the ‘Underbelly’ TV series, after the police informant scandal.

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Australia

Record heat in Australia, as temperatures near 50 degrees Celsius

Authorities urge caution as temperatures soar, fuelling out of control fires.

A man shades himself from the heat with a fan in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. Victorians are sweating through what could be the state’s most severe heatwave in nearly two decades. Photo: EPA
Australia

South Korean church deploys ‘special force’ to recruit Australian youths

The Shincheonji church compiles profiles of potential members to draw up personalised recruitment plans, according to a former member.

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Australia

‘Leave, go’: Australia declares state of disaster amid bushfires

Emergency crews can now force evacuations as conditions rivalled the infamous ‘Black Summer’ blazes of 2019-2020.

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Australia

Murderer slathers Australian state with lawsuit over Vegemite ban in prison

Andre McKechnie argued that he had a right to eat the spread because it was ‘his culture as an Australian’.

An Australian inmate said a Vegemite ban inside Victoria’s prisons violated his human rights. Photo: AP
Australia

Man charged with stealing 43 Labubu dolls during Melbourne burglary spree

The highly valued limited-edition figures were allegedly stolen during a months-long crime spree at a shopping centre in central Melbourne.

Labubu products for sale are seen at a POP MART store in Melbourne. Photo: dpa
China-Australia relations

Chinese nationals in Australia blindsided by anti-immigration marches

Sweeping rallies in all Australian capital cities protest against immigration, sparked by rising right-wing sentiment and cost-of-living crisis.

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Australia

Australia’s mushroom murderer sentenced to life in jail, no parole for 33 years

Erin Patterson’s ‘failure to exhibit any remorse pours salt into all the victims’ wounds’, judge said.

Australia

Australia posts US$659,000 reward for gunman’s arrest over police killings

Desmond Freeman is accused of opening fire when police arrived at his home in Victoria with a search warrant last month.

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The coffin of police officer senior constable Vadim de Waart being carried following his funeral service in Melbourne on Friday. He was one of two Victoria Police officers killed in a shooting at Porepunkah in Victoria’s north-east last week. Photo: AFP
Australia

2 Australian police officers killed in rare fatal shooting, manhunt under way

Authorities in Victoria said the officers were ambushed as they tried to serve a warrant for historical sex abuse allegations.

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Australian police wait near the scene of a shooting in the state of Victoria, on Tuesday. Photo: AP
Australia

‘Half alive’: sole survivor of Australia’s mushroom murders tells court of grief

A pastor who survived a deadly mushroom lunch with killer Erin Patterson has opened up about life without his wife, who died from the meal.

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Video | Australia’s ‘mushroom murderer’ found guilty of killing in-laws

Erin Patterson was convicted of murdering her in-laws by serving a meal spiked with poisonous death cap mushrooms

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Australia

Arson hits Australian synagogue amid surge in antisemitic attacks

A wave of antisemitic attacks has roiled the country since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.

Rabbi Dovid Gutnick stands outside the damaged exterior of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne. Photo: AAP/dpa
Australia

Europeans committed genocide against indigenous Australians, inquiry finds

The explosive report details mass killings, forced child removals and cultural suppression, calling for government compensation.

Australia

Australian woman accused of 3 murders testifies over mushroom poisoning

Patterson is alleged to have killed three members of her ex-husband’s family and is also accused of trying to murder another, via death cap mushrooms in a pie.

Australia

A machete-wielding mob ran riot in Australia. Days later the knives were banned

The government of Victoria state brought in the ban on the sale of large knives on Wednesday after a weekend gang fight at a Melbourne mall.

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Machetes are seen at Victoria Police Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: AAP Image via AP
Australia

What’s in the air? Australian state reels from deluge of dust

New South Wales is grappling with a widespread dust storm days after record flooding that killed five and displaced 50,000 people.

A dust storm from drought-stricken South Australia hit coastal New South Wales on Tuesday morning. Photo: X/@fictillius
Australia

Australia Day protesters support Aboriginal groups, deface statues

Tens of thousands of people across the country joined protests in support of Aboriginal groups, who say the date is not one to celebrate.

Asean

Biden skips Southeast Asia summits – is it a snub or strategy shift?

Biden’s absence does not necessarily indicate weaker US interest in Southeast Asia but rather a shift in engagement strategy, analysts say.

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Australia

‘I regret nothing’: Australia to jail self-described Nazi for salute

Jacob Hersant, 25, made the gesture in front of news media cameras six days after the Victoria state government made the Nazi salute illegal.

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Jacob Hersant, 25, made the salute and praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in front of news media cameras outside the Victoria County Court on October 27, 2023. Photo: AP
Hong Kong stock market

Hong Kong stocks fall as profit-taking halts China onshore market frenzy

Hang Seng Index slipped 1.4 per cent, adding to its 9.4 per cent plunge on Tuesday, while the CSI 300 Index of onshore stocks sank 7.1 per cent.

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A trader at a stock brokerage in Hangzhou on September 24, 2024. Photo: Getty Images
Cancer

CK Life’s Yuen banks on Big Pharma experience to boost new drug success

Lance Yuen spent two decades at Bristol Myers Squibb and Bayer in the region before becoming the CEO at CK Life Sciences last month.

Hong Kong stock market

Hong Kong stocks hit 20-month high as China frenzy continues

Stocks jumped for a sixth straight day as gains snowballed to US$3 trillion since Beijing unveiled its biggest stimulus package in this cycle.

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