POLITICS & POLICY

The Western Australian (WA) Government has launched several Shark Kill Zones along its beach shorelines to address shark-related deaths in the area and to counteract shark risks in WA. The planned shark safety measures were announced by WA Premier Colin Barnett and WA Fisheries Minister Troy Buswell on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

Two of China's most influential news outlets tried to make satire pieces of the polluted haze that enveloped the country over the weekend. However, the people didn't find it funny at all. Moreover, other Chinese media didn't think second thoughts to air out their opinions on the issue.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: There are market expectations that the Fed may taper its bond purchases in December after the strong US payrolls report last Friday.

Prime Minsiter Tony Abbott is reportedly replacing Holden cars with BMW bomb-free cars

Russia vowed on Tuesday to beef up its military presence in the Arctic North Pole after Canada applied to expand its territorial sovereignty into the region.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Coalition government has failed to outperform the Australian Labor Party in the latest Newspoll. The poll results may be an indication of the Abbott government's collapse as Labor leads as the most preferred political party in a two-party basis.

In what seemed like a rare show of humility, China has flatly admitted the subject matter of climate change was not something it prepared for as it zealously worked to rise to become one of the leading economic powers of the world today.

About 200 employees are about to be jobless as Wilkie Creek Mine announces closure in Queensland

Canada has formally joined in the fray of nations laying territorial sovereignty over the North Pole. On Monday, the country announced it had filed before the United Nations an application seeking to expand its Atlantic sea boundary.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened back above USD0.9100 amid recent stronger data out of the US and China.

Nelson Mandela tried to do that all his life when he was alive: to make peace with the political rivals. His death proved his motto in life once again as political opponents share the podium just in the memory of Mandela.

A few months ago, when reports came out that former South African President Nelson Mandela was dying, the family's good name was tarnished when news came out that even before the freedom icon breathed his last, members of the clan were feuding where to bury him.

Australia’s domestic spy agency the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has cancelled the passports of 20 men from across western Sydney because of fears of their 'jihad mentality' and that there was a possibility of the men travelling abroad to participate in politically motivated violence.

The long-awaited day has finally come for same-sex couples in Australia to marry legally. Over a dozen couples went down in history, as the first gay marriage ceremonies were held in the capital city of Canberra on Dec. 7.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper left for South Africa to attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela. He will be joined by more than 60 other national leaders from all over the world.

Over 100 protesters threw stones at the Australian embassy in Dili as they assembled outside the complex to express outrage over reports that Australian spies had bugged the East Timorese cabinet office in capital Dili in 2004 during negotiations on an oil and gas revenue-sharing deal between the two countries.

Maj Gen Milner may have known Afghanistan as a country more than any other soldier from the coalition army

Nelson Mandela wasn’t just a South African president; he was also the personified symbol of racial equality and hope all over the world. And with the passing of this great man, Australian leaders have offered their message of mourning.

Seeking nullification of its 2006 treaty with Australia dividing undersea oil and gas reserves, East Timor has approached the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands where proceedings began Thursday, to set up the procedural guidelines for the dispute arbitration, which experts believe could last almost a year.

Nelson Mandela took up the mantle from where Gandhi left it.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela was confirmed dead on Thursday evening at the age of 95. While the whole world mourns for the loss of a great leader, there are several netizens who still fire brow-raising comments on Twitter, condoning Mandela's act as a 'terrorist leader.'

The Australian Electoral Commission releases a report on the missing 1370 WA senate votes

Australia had its share of ending apartheid in South Africa.

Labor on Thursday, charged the government on failing to uphold its promise to bring "discipline and focus" in the targeted military operation for managing the refugee issue, after reports emerged that around 28 Rohingya asylum seekers spent three days at Christmas Island beach unnoticed.

Australia and South Korea has entered into a free trade agreement on Thursday. The deal most advances the plight of meat exporters and agricultural producers.

Canada continued to decelerate in the Forbes' magazine's eighth annual 'Best Countries for Business' ranking, all in just a span of two years. From top five in 2012, Canada has been ranked as only the eighth most favored country for business. In 2011, Canada was number one.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Tonight's US non-farm payrolls report will be scrutinised by financial markets for its implications for the US Federal Reserve's asset purchasing program.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop promised on Thursday to Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa that Canberra would no longer spy again on Indonesian officials in the future.

After a battle to a vicious lung infection, anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95.