Australian cricket hit by 1985 sexual abuse allegation By: AFP on January 3, 2022Australia’s cricketing chiefs said Monday they were assisting a police investigation into shock allegations that an under-19 cricketer was sexually assaulted while on tour in India and Sri Lanka in the 1980s. Cricket Australia said it supported ex-Australian under-19 Jamie Mitchell, whose claims that he was raped on the tour by a team official were […]
Diplomatic success for Pakistan as Australia returns illegally smuggled bronze age stone By: APP on December 8, 2021CANBERRA (Australia), Dec 8 (APP): In a diplomatic achievement for Pakistan, the government of Australia on Wednesday returned an aniconic stone weight id 3rd millennium BCE, having originated in Balochistan. The stone weight was handed over to Pakistan’s High Commissioner Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry at a ceremony was attended by senior officials from the Australian Office of […]
Omicron spreads in US, Australia By: AFP on December 3, 2021The United States and Australia announced their first locally transmitted cases of the Omicron variant as authorities worldwide rushed Friday to stem the spread of the heavily mutated strain of Covid-19. The World Health Organization has said it could take weeks to determine whether Omicron is more transmissible and whether it causes more severe infections […]
Lockdowns sink Australian economy in third quarter By: AFP on December 1, 2021Pandemic-induced lockdowns caused Australia’s economy to shrink 1.9 percent in the third quarter, a downturn that bucked the trend of a steady recovery in other wealthy nations. The Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday reported the country’s second quarterly contraction since the pandemic began — and one of the largest contractions on record — sparked […]