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AUSTRALIANS PAID $5 BILLION FOR OFFSHORE PROCESSING SINCE 2013
Since then over 2,000 people, including 169 children, remain in limbo on Manus and Nauru, the Human Rights Law Centre said... READ MORE›
REFUGEES AFRAID, CONFUSED AS MANUS DETENTION CENTRE SHUTDOWN BEGINS
Australia has set an August deadline for refugees to accept an offer of tens-of-thousands of dollars to return to the countries they fled... READ MORE›
CHINA EYES OBOR GOLD RUSH AS IT SEEKS TO BUILD RESERVES
With growing domestic demand, Chinese gold mining corporations are prepared to catch Obor's wind to puff up their sails... READ MORE›
US 'GIVES TIMELINE' ON REFUGEE SWAP TO MANUS ISLAND DETAINEES
The refugees include men from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar. A spokeswoman for Australia's Minister for Immigration Peter Dutton declined to comment... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA TO PAY $53M TO MANUS ISLAND ASYLUM SEEKERS
The United States is considering resettling up to 1,250 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru under a deal struck between Australia and the Obama administration... READ MORE›
GOVERNMENT TO PAY MILLIONS IN COMPENSATION TO MANUS DETAINEES
Manus Island detainees will receive 70 million in the settlement of a class action against the Australian government... READ MORE›
IS DEEP SEA MINING VITAL FOR A GREENER FUTURE - EVEN IF IT DESTROYS ECOSYSTEMS?
The seabed crawler being built is a few metres in size, far smaller than the commercial-scale machines Nautilus commissioned from UK company SMD... READ MORE›
'FACELESS' FISH MISSING FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY REDISCOVERED BY AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS
On board the Investigator research vessel for the month-long voyage are 27 scientists, 13 technicians and 20 crew... READ MORE›
9 INJURED IN MANUS SHOOTING IMMIGRATION CONFIRMS
Mr Pezzullo said his department had advised the minister several times the atmosphere at the centre and its surrounds has been one characterised increasingly by tensions... READ MORE›
ELECTION SEASON IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA REVEALS THE STRANGER SIDE OF DEMOCRACY
Papua New Guineans have heard these promises many times before, yet many people I've spoken to remain hopeful about the election, and are rarely cynical... READ MORE›
PRISON GUARDS KILL INMATES AFTER JAILBREAK IN LAE
Buimo is the same prison where police shot dead 12 inmates during a jailbreak last year... READ MORE›
ASYLUM SEEKERS FEAR FOR SAFETY AHEAD OF RELOCATION
Funded by Australia, the two remote camps in Nauru and Manus Island were set up in 2013 to detain asylum seekers indefinitely, who arrive by boat... READ MORE›
PNG TO SHUT PARTS OF MANUS ISLAND DETENTION CENTRE
PNG to shut parts of Manus Island detention centre refugees... READ MORE›
CHINA PLANS NEW SILK ROAD TO DOMINATE WORLD TRADE
It will open southern China and Chongqing to the world, she said... READ MORE›
INDIGENOUS RANGERS STUMBLE ACROSS DODO RELATIVE LIVING IN THE KIMBERLEY
In 2002, scientists determined through DNA analysis that the Nicobar pigeon was the closest living relative to the dodo... READ MORE›
QUEEN'S LOYAL HUSBAND PRINCE PHILIP OFTEN IN HOT WATER OVER COMMENTS
The 95-year-old Duke of Edinburgh is patron, president or a member of almost 800 organizations, and has accompanied his wife on countless British and overseas engagements... READ MORE›
UNPOPULAR IN NYC, TRUMP STAGES BRIEF RETURN TO BOAST HEALTH BILL VICTORY, MEET TURNBULL
Trump and Turnbull spoke by telephone earlier Thursday and were looking forward to meeting, the White House said... READ MORE›
TRUMP CELEBRATES HILL VICTORY, RELISHES VISIT TO HOMETOWN
NEW YORK AP -- President Donald Trump had already planned a celebration as he returned to his hometown for the first time since his inauguration... READ MORE›
TRUMP HAPPY AS HOUSE PASSES GOP HEALTH BILL IN STEP TOWARD OBAMACARE REPEAL
The bitter health care battle dominated the Capitol even as Congress sent Trump a bipartisan 1 trillion measure financing federal agencies through September... READ MORE›
PRINCE PHILIP KING OF THE AWKWARD ONE-LINER
I shall probably have to give up polo." "We don't come here for our health... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO MEET AUSTRALIAN PM ON 1ST PRESIDENTIAL TRIP TO NYC
Manhattan is where Trump made a name by transforming himself from real-estate developer into a celebrity businessman and now president... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA THREAT WILL DOMINATE TALKS WITH TRUMP, TURNBULL SAYS
Australia's prime minister said Wednesday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump will engage as two seasoned businessmen-turned-politicians when they meet... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN LEADER SAYS NORTH KOREA WILL DOMINATE TRUMP TALKS
The Australian public want to know the Australian prime minister has the ear of the president, Fullilove said... READ MORE›
FOREIGN AID EXPECTED TO BE SPARED FURTHER BUDGET CUTS
No sector has been cut anything like as much as foreign aid, Stephen Howes, from the Australian National University Policy Centre, told SBS News... READ MORE›
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ARE PLANTS INTELLIGENT? NEW BOOK SAYS YES
This is why plants have no brain not because they are not intelligent, but because they would be vulnerable, Mancuso said... READ MORE›
MELBOURNE NAMED WORLD'S MOST LIVEABLE CITY, FOR FIFTH YEAR RUNNING
Melbourne has topped The Economist's liveability rankings for a fifth consecutive year... READ MORE›
BRITISH-OWNED CRUISE SHIP WRECKS ONE OF INDONESIA'S BEST CORAL REEFS
Mongabay Ship ran aground at Raja Ampat, one of the country's most popular dive sites that has been likened to an underwater Amazon... READ MORE›
'DUMB DEAL' DRAGS AUSTRALIA-U.S. TIES TO NEW LOW AFTER TENSE TRUMP CALL
The Post reported that Trump described the resettlement plan as the worst deal ever and accused Australia of trying to export the next Boston bombers ... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI WARNINGS AFTER 7.8 QUAKE STRIKES OFF SOLOMON ISLANDS' COAST
Another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit 66km west of Kirakira, Solomon Islands, according to USGS... READ MORE›
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: A CATASTROPHE LAID BARE
Climate change is the greatest threat facing the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs around the world... READ MORE›
NO, THE WORLD'S OLDEST TREE HAS NOT BEEN ACCIDENTALLY CUT DOWN BY LOGGERS IN THE AMAZON
While logging in the Mats's Indigenous Reserve is indeed controversial and the Amazon rainforest is shrinking, the Rainforest Protection Coalition does not exist... READ MORE›
TRUMP IN 'WORST CALL' WITH TURNBULL
A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee resettlement deal... READ MORE›
TRUMP ON 'TOUGH' CALLS WITH WORLD LEADERS
Believe me, when you hear about the tough phone calls I'm having, don't worry about it, Trump said Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington... READ MORE›
HOW TIBETANS SURVIVE LIFE ON THE 'ROOF OF THE WORLD'
They lived on the Tibetan Plateau, 4200m 14,100ft above sea level, in a site now known as Chusang... READ MORE›
SO YOU WANT TO MOVE TO AUSTRALIA? HERE'S A HOW-TO GUIDE
Migrants can apply for permanent residency in Australia under various different visas... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S 'RAREST' CREATURE HAS JUST BEEN SEEN FOR ONLY THE THIRD TIME EVER
Peter Ward a professor of biology at the University of Washington in the US first saw Allonautilus scrobiculatus in 1984... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S REFUGEE ORDER TRIGGERS PROTESTS ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Similar protests were held in Canberra, Newcastle and Hobart, while hundreds attended an anti-Trump rally in Melbourne on Friday... READ MORE›
TESTICLE-MUNCHING FISH SPECIES FOUND IN US LAKE
They are almost identical to the piranha you couldn't even tell from the outside he explained after the Scandinavian pacu sighting... READ MORE›
MELANIA TRUMP HANDS OUT HONORS AT STATE DEPARTMENT TO WOMEN WHO DISPLAYED COURAGE
She continues to live in New York City with her son, Barron, and visits Washington periodically... READ MORE›
OUSTED AUSTRALIAN LEADER URGES HARD LINE FROM EUROPE
As public criticism of the camps has increased, the Australian government has tried with little success to resettle asylum seekers in third countries... READ MORE›
DESPITE HILLARY CLINTON PROMISE, CHARITY DID NOT DISCLOSE DONORS
Exclusive Despite Hillary Clinton promise, charity did not disclose donors... READ MORE›
THE RAINFORESTS HOLD THE KEY TO TAMING EL NIA?O'S DESTRUCTION
The rainforests hold the key to taming el ni o's destruction... READ MORE›
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBAL RIGHT-WING SURGE
The far-right United Kingdom Independence Party declared that a Britain free of the European Union would welcome its former colonies as closer trade partners... READ MORE›
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS MOST ANCIENT CIVILISATION ON EARTH, EXTENSIVE DNA STUDY CONFIRMS
The findings show that aboriginal Australians are descended directly from the first people to inhabit the continent about 50,000 years ago... READ MORE›
ONE IN FIVE PACIFIC ISLANDERS WOULD MOVE TO AUSTRALIA UNDER NEW MIGRATION PROPOSAL
Under the proposal, Pacific Islanders could move to Australia through a similar pathway to that which is currently enjoyed by New Zealanders... READ MORE›
5 PACIFIC ISLANDS SWALLOWED BY THE SEA
Five of the Solomon Islands have completely disappeared under water over the past seven decades, one drawing its last breath as recently as 2011... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA PM SAYS CLAIMS ARE FALSE
Malcolm Turnbull calls Amnesty International's claims of abuse of refugees on South Pacific island absolutely false ... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADERS ISSUE APPEAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Representatives of the church from five continents signed the appeal in Vatican City... READ MORE›
SAVING CASSOWARIES ONE BIRD AT A TIME AT WORLD'S ONLY REHABILITATION CENTRE
Cassowaries belong to the same group of flightless birds as the emu, ostrich, kiwi and South America's rhea... READ MORE›
HOW CORRUPT PNG CASH IS REACHING AUSTRALIA
The law firm is owned by Australian Greg Sheppard and his business partner Harvey Maladina... READ MORE›
ASYLUM GROUP 'LEGALLY HELD AT SEA'
Australia asylum sea detention of sri lankans legal court rules... READ MORE›
WHY IS IT LEFT TO US NGOS TO EXPOSE AUSTRALIAN MINING'S WRONGDOING IN AFRICA?
The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE›
LEAK REVEALS CHILDREN SEXUALLY ABUSED AT PRISON
Australia said it was seeking to confirm that all reports had been dealt with by Nauru police... READ MORE›