Australia Returns Activists to Ship
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Australia said that it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese vessel.
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CANBERRA: Australia deported its highest-profile family of asylum seekers to Pakistan in the pre-dawn hours on Thursday, ending a long battle for sanctuary that has turned the Bakhtiari family into a symbol of Canberraâs stern policy on refugees.
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Australian terror suspect Mamdouh  Habib arrived home on Friday after being released from U.S.  detention at Guantanamo Bay where he was held for almost three  years on suspicion of helping al Qaeda.
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The Australian government has signalled for the first time that it would demand the return of its only citizen held at Guantanamo Bay if delays with his US military trial persisted.
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Australia plans to strengthen its  coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint  that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia.
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The bombing outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta appears not to have harmed Australia&#39;s renewed love affair with Bali. Travel wholesalers have reported that since the first anniversary of the Bali bombing
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An Australian government ship has left on a mission to track Japan's whaling fleet and gather evidence for a potential international court case against Tokyo, an official said Wednesday.
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Australia could send a customs ship to end a high-seas standoff in Antarctic waters by picking up two anti-whaling activists held on board a Japanese whaler, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday.
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Australia's highest-profile family of asylum seekers have been deported to Pakistan, ending a four-year battle for sanctury.
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Police and soldiers began deploying to outback Australia Monday as part of a radical plan to end child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities which has been criticised as a return to the nation&#39;s paternalistic past.
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Australia will host a conference here this week to try to win international support for a campaign to save endangered seabirds from being wiped out by fishing and pollution, the government said.
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Mark Latham was re-elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, one of Australia&#39;s biggest political parties, here Friday. Jenny Macklin was returned to the deputy&#39;s position.
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The bodies of two Australian soldiers killed in the Vietnam War arrived home Tuesday, more than 40 years after they were listed as missing in action fighting the Viet Cong.
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Aborigines who were taken from their homes as children will get reparation from the Australian state of Tasmania.
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Australia will double to A$20 million ($15.4 million) its anti-terrorism assistance to Indonesia as part of efforts to deepen coordination in fighting militants, Foreign
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The bodies of two Australian soldiers were returned to home soil on Tuesday, almost 42 years after they were killed in battle in Vietnam, leaving only four Australians listed as missing in action from the conflict.
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Australia welcomed Saturday Japan's backdown on plans to hunt humpbacks but said it had still lodged a formal protest with Tokyo calling for an end to all whaling.