Australian Federal Police are carrying out a raid on the ABC headquarters in the inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo. Three officers entered the Harris Street building just before 11.30am. The plain-clothes officers were met by ABC security and staff in the lobby area of the ABC Ultimo Centre before meeting lawyers for the broadcaster. The raids […]
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison led his conservative government to a surprise victory in Australia’s election, seeing off a challenge from the left-leaning Labor opposition with his pledge to safeguard the slowing economy. “I have always believed in miracles,” Morrison, 51, told cheering supporters in Sydney, flanked by his wife and two daughters. “Tonight we’ve been […]
Judge Sentences Cardinal Pell to Six Years in Prison…
Cardinal George Pell was sentenced yesterday in a Melbourne court to six years in jail on five convictions of the sexual abuse of minors. The Cardinal has steadfastly maintained his innocence. Judge Peter Kidd also ruled Pell could not be paroled for three years and eight months, telling the 77-year-old prelate he may die in jail, and […]
Australian Cardinal George Pell Convicted of Molesting 2 Choirboys, CHOIRBOYS!!!
Sickening details of Australian Cardinal George Pell’s child sexual abuse conviction were revealed Monday, including how he raped one choirboy and molested another inside a cathedral after Sunday mass 22 years ago. News outlets were barred by a gag order from reporting on the trial and Dec. 11 guilty verdict of 77-year-old Pell, the highest-ranking […]
Political Turmoil Throws Australia Off Balance…
For the past decade, Australia has been politically adrift. Like some counterparts in the Western world, it has been experiencing a cycle of deep fragmentation, polarization and swings in the political balance that have put its governments off kilter. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s downfall in late August ushered in the country’s sixth prime minister in […]
Trust Us, We’re Secretly Working for a Foreign Government: How Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On…
In the last few years, we’ve discovered just how much trust — whether we like it or not — we have all been obliged to place in modern technology. Third-party software, of unknown composition and security, runs on everything around us: from the phones we carry around, to the smart devices with microphones and cameras […]