Oceania Australia Substantial compensation will be paid to the survivors of the indigenous 'stolen generation', children who were forcibly removed from their families in 1900; it is one of the measures designed to reduce the gap in this category
Oceania Australia The country risks being placed on a human rights blacklist for failing to comply with prison monitoring obligations under a UN anti-torture treaty
Oceania Australia One of Australia's most prominent politicians, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet, has admitted to wearing a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party and has apologised, calling it a terrible mistake, made when he was young and naive
Oceania Australia Record rains are provoking floods in Kimberly and Canberra, while Fitzroy River flows breaks the records of 2022; evacuation operations are being performed from homes, hospitals and public buildings, with incessant use of helicopters
Oceania Australia A leading supermarket chain has pulled a popular cheese product from its shelves and urged anyone who has bought it not to eat it after quality testing revealed microbial contamination of E.Coli in small batches of the product