Oceania Australia The Australian Football League is investigating allegations of bullying of Aboriginal players at one of its most successful clubs, the Hawthorn Football Club
Oceania Australia The oldest known meteorite impact crater in the world has been discovered by researchers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia: believed to be 3,47 billion years old, it pushes back the previous record by more than a billion years
Oceania Australia 157 stranded cetaceans, of the pseudorhynchus species, were found on a beach on the north-west coast of Tasmania; the animals will have to be suppressed because the beach cannot be reached by sufficiently means of transport large enough
Oceania Australia Australian lawmakers and experts say there has been an increase in both anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents since the war between Israel and Hamas began on 7 October 2023, in what its leaders call a 'national crisis'
Oceania Australia New Hate Crimes Bill establishes new offences for threatening force against people based on race, religion, national or ethnic origin, opinion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and setting penalties for the display of Nazi or terrorist symbols