Mainstream Australian political leaders need to denounce divisive and racist rhetoric, particularly from members of their own parties, a United Nations expert has said. The UN special rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere, made the comments on Monday while releasing a preliminary report on racism in Australia that called for better treatment of Indigenous people in the justice system and retention ...

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australia aheres to a One China policy and will seek to “work constructively” with US President-elect Donald Trump after he broke with 37 years of protocol and spoke directly to the leader of Taiwan. As experts in China and across the region raced to interpret the significance of Mr Trump’s call, Ms Bishop said on Sunday that Australia spoke officially ...

2016 marks the 30 year celebration of Arab Bank Australia, in Australia. For over 30 years the Bank has prided itself on being a community bank here for the people and offering relationship banking and superior service so each and every person feels welcome. On Friday 18 November 2016 at the Great Hall at Sydney University, Mr Geoff Wild AM ...

Seeing harrowing images from war zones in Syria and Iraq can make people feel at a loss of how to help, but there are ways Australians can lend a hand. There are dozens of organisations already working within and around the war-torn cities of Aleppo and Mosul. We asked workers from Red Cross and World Vision what Australians can do. ...

Most of Australia can expect a hotter-than-average December, with temperatures being forced up by both regional climate patterns and a global upwards trend. Temperatures were forecast to peak between 29C and 34C on Thursday, the first day of summer, in all states bar Victoria and Tasmania. Melbourne and Hobart could look forward to highs of 21C and 24C. Queensland would ...

Protesters campaigning against the Australian government’s treatment of asylum seekers have breached parliament security for a second day. Two protesters abseiled down Parliament House in Canberra, unfurling a banner saying “close the bloody camps now”. Australia sends asylum seekers who arrive by boat to offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The government believes the policy prevents deaths ...

It’s beginning to feel a lot like the most expensive time of year. Australian shoppers will spend more than $48.1 billion in retail stores over the Christmas trading period, including more than $19 billion on food alone. On presents, Australians are expected to spend $8.8 billion, more than half of which will be spent on credit or store cards, according ...

The Turkish government is yet to respond to Australia about the federal government’s wish to extradite Islamic State recruiter Neil Prakash. “He’s obviously subject at the moment to the Turkish justice system, and Turkish legal processes,” Justice Minister Michael Keenan told ABC radio. Melbourne-born Prakash is being detained in Turkey after being arrested trying to leave Syria using false identity ...

BYRON Bay is Australia’s booziest location for risky drinking, a town in Tassie tops the list for the most smokers, and WA’s Pinjarra poses the most danger to your waistline, the latest figures in a national health report card reveal. The Australia’s Health Trackers map, released this week by the Australian Health Policy Collaboration reveals that your postcode can affect ...

DONALD Trump yesterday announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “On trade, I am going to issue our notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potential disaster for our country,” he said. “Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores.” The TPP would ...