November 25, 2015 Australian wildfire kills at least 2 and injures 13 others Out-of-control wildfires have caused at least two deaths, 13 injuries and have destroyed at least 16 homes near the southern Australian city of Adelaide, officials said on Thursday.
November 5, 2015 Suspected LulzSec hacker arrested in Australia could face 12 years in jail Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday.
September 18, 2015 Tennis commentator asks female star to 'twirl' for crowd, draws backlash A sports interviewer who asked Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard if she would “twirl” around for the crowd following her Australian Open match Wednesday is causing international backlash on the Internet.
September 9, 2015 Australian leader vows to strike ISIS in Syria, says country will take in 12,000 refugees Australia will launch airstrikes against Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria within days and resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in the Middle East, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday.
August 27, 2015 Australian survivor of World War II's 'Great Escape' dies at 101 Paul Royle, an Australian pilot who took part in a mass breakout from a German prisoner of war camp during World War II that is remembered as The Great Escape, has died in his hometown of Perth, his son said Friday. He was 101.
May 21, 2015 Australian police say they disrupted Melbourne bomb plot The teen was arrested on Friday afternoon in a joint federal-state police counterterrorism operation at his home in Greenvale where the devices were found, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan said.
May 21, 2015 Second shark attack in as many days kills surfer off Australia beach A Japanese national was killed Monday after a shark tore off his legs while he was surfing off Australia's east coast, not far from the area where another surfer was mauled by a shark a day earlier, officials said.
May 21, 2015 Ill worker begins two-week voyage from Antarctica to Australian hospital A seriously ill man has begun a two-week ocean voyage on an icebreaker from an Australian Antarctic base to a hospital in Australia, officials said Monday.
May 21, 2015 Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser dies at 84 Malcolm Fraser, the former Australian prime minister who was notoriously catapulted to power by a constitutional crisis that left the nation bitterly divided, died on Friday his office said. He was 84.
May 21, 2015 American charged with bribery in Australia over bank contract A U.S. citizen who was recently a senior executive at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia pleaded not guilty in a Sydney court Wednesday to charges that he accepted bribes to award a contract to a U.S. information technology firm.
