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Australia monitoring Chinese ship heading towards Queensland to spy on its
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 15 (ANI): Australian authorities said they are constantly monitoring a Chinese spy ship that is set to arrive in the region in an apparent attempt to observe a joint military exercise with the United States off the coast of Queensland.
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Thousands left without electricity as strong storms hit western Australia
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Thousands of Australians were left without electricity early on Sunday as strong storms and flash floods hit the city of Perth and some of its suburbs last night and the day before, local media reported.
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China targets Australian industries with economic sanctions amid souring t
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 9 (ANI): China has hit several Australian industries with economic sanctions as part of punishment over Canberra's criticism of Beijing blocking investigations into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on Huawei Technologies.
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Australian Senator calls China 'one of biggest threats' to country
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 4 (ANI): Matt Canavan, the Senator of Australia's National Party, has called China one of the 'biggest threats' to the country's liberties and future prosperity.
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Australian COVID-19 vaccine rollout a "phenomenal failure": Former PM
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Former Australian Prime Minister (PM) Malcolm Turnbull has described the country's coronavirus vaccine rollout as a "failure of public administration."
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Chinese pro-democracy students facing harassment, threats in Australian un
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 30 (ANI): A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has revealed that many Chinese pro-democracy students are facing harassment, surveillance and threats in Australian universities and said that there is a lack of oversight and accountability mechanisms to ensure their aca
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Lockdown extended for 14 days in Sydney amid Delta Variant spike
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 26 (ANI): Australia on Saturday extended lockdown for 14 days in Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong to curb the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
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Calls for boycott of Beijing Olympics over Chinese repression intensify, p
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 23 (ANI): A protest was held on Wednesday near Parliament House in Australia, calling for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics amid ongoing Chinese genocide against Uyghur Muslims and the severe repression in Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Hong
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Australia to challenge UNESCO proposal to list Great Barrier Reef as 'in d
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Australia will challenge UNESCO's draft recommendation to add the Great Barrier Reef to the List of World Heritage in Danger, Environment Minister Sussan Ley told the ABC News broadcaster on Tuesday.
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Global standards to embed health, wellbeing into education system
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 21 (ANI): The first global standards to embed health and wellbeing into the education system has been created amid a rise in mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Australia to take China to WTO over wine duties
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 20 (ANI): Amid the already deteriorating China-Australia ties, Canberra is heading to the World Trade Organization (WTO), seeking intervention in the dispute with China over the imposition of anti-dumping duties on its wine exports.
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'No rush' to re-open Australia's borders: Trade Minister
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Australia's Trade Minister has declared that the government is in "no rush" to re-open the international borders.
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