Australia may be exerting efforts to ban racism among its residents but these are not enough, at least for Australian of the Year and AFL legend Adam Goodes. For one, the country's very own prevailing constitution remains discriminatory against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey delivered the first budget under the government of Prime Minister Tony Abbot on Tuesday night. The treasurer stated that the budget aimed to put a national effort to for the Australians to fix the budget together. So what does the budget means to an ordinary Australian citizen?
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey presented on Tuesday night the Coalition's first budget, acknowledging the document would be hugely unpopular among Aussies.
Killer Robots, or the fully autonomous lethal weapons, were reportedly in operation in some remote locations.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott may be abandoning his support for clean and renewable energy in Australia if the government is planning to cut the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) in the budget. ARENA chairman Greg Bourne has warned the Abbott government will be out "cleaning the decks" if the agency's remaining unallocated funds worth $1 billion were returned to consolidated.
The Weather Channel has issued an apology to Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns after an exchange of Tweets stemming from the Councilman's simple complaint of the channel's app.
Media all over the world apparently never cared until the terrorist group kidnapped the young girls.
Investigators from Brasilia's Audit Court in Brazil has revealed $275 million spike in construction of Brasilia's World Cup Mane Garrincha stadium.
In a bid to appease Coalition members, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met on Monday with 200 Coalition staff and reminded them that he intends to keep his campaign promises. But he mentioned only repealing the carbon tax, fixing the budget, stopping the boats and building the roads of the 21st century.
Bruce Wilson, an ex-boyfriend of erstwhile Prime Minister Julia Gillard and a former union official, hit a photographer on Monday outside the royal commission where there is an ongoing investigation into union corruption.
Sarah Bajc, girlfriend of IBM Malaysia employee Philip Wood, receives death threats from a Chinese number.
Speaking with Mashable, CNN explains why it has such an “obsession” with MH370 coverage
Speaking with Popular Mechanics Magazine, John Goglia, former member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said all decisions made by the Australian team were the right thing to do.
Australia will be allotting A$82 billion ($77 billion) into a road infrastructure plan in a bid to encourage investment into its fizzling economy spurred by a fading mining boom.
Controversial Canadian politician Rob Ford has been confirmed to be in rehab for a residential treatment programme for substance abuse.
As part of the Abbott government's cost-cutting measures to be announced this week in the budget, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) will axe 3,000 jobs, reports said.
Besides suffering a drastic reduction in its approval rating because of its planned deficit tax, the Abbott government is not only losing the trust of voters and ordinary Australians, but even corporate Australia.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has described Prime Minister Tony Abbott's asylum seeker policy a failure as boats continue to arrive. On May 5, two groups of asylum seekers were turned back which has added pressure to the already strained relationship between Australia and Indonesia.
Tom Kludt has observed CNN "has gotten a bit carried away with the somewhere else" and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of the Malaysian aircraft.
Federal Communications Commission has received massive opposition from over 100 leading Internet companies over the proposed net neutrality plan, which is aimed at regulating the online providers' management of Web traffic.
Hollywood stars such as Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie and more have joined in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign rally against the government of Nigeria and its president Goodluck Jonathan.
Nations around the world have started conducting respective preparations in anticipation of a strong El Niño weather occurrence this 2014.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Daughter Frances smokes in public, tainting Australia’s strict tobacco policy
Netizens were quick to react on Twitter with the hashtag #tummyeggs over the unfortunate use of the word "tummy" by Australian MP Geoff Shaw as he explained his point on the radical abortion bill he proposed.
Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan may be out of power for almost a year now since PM Julia Gillard lost in a party coup, but his voice is heard once again in response to the much-hated proposal of the Coalition to impose a deficit tax.
Controversial cull policy off Western Australia reported 170 sharks caught but not a single white shark
Nigeria has asked for Canada’s help with ‘surveillance equipment and other vital security hardware” so that 276 kidnapped schoolgirls could be located.
Yingluck Shinawatra is no longer Thailand's Prime Minister after a court found her guilty of abusing power that led to a prolonged political crisis that has spurred a number of violent protests.
How ‘confident’ is Australia in leading the search for the missing MH370?
U.S. Secret Service went berserk and haywire on Tuesday when a man driving a gray Honda Civic was able to breach protocol and joined a motorcade carrying the Obama daughters through a security checkpoint near the presidential mansion.
