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China 'pressured' Australia to refuse Uighurs

AFP - Monday, November 16

SYDNEY (AFP) - - China may have pressured Australia to refuse to take six Uighur men released from Guantanamo Bay and sent to the Pacific island nation of Palau, President Johnson Toribiong said. More »

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Alleged war criminal to fight extradition from Australia
AFP - Saturday, November 14
SYDNEY (AFP) - - Relatives of an 88-year-old alleged war criminal on Friday vowed to fight his extradition to Hungary after it was approved by Australian officials.
Australian officials to test 'Ned Kelly' skull
AFP - Friday, November 13
SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australian officials said they would carry out tests to check whether a skull handed in by a farmer belonged to the country's most infamous outlaw, bushranger Ned Kelly.
Australia OKs extradition of accused Nazi criminal
AP - Friday, November 13
ADELAIDE, Australia - The Australian government has approved the extradition of an alleged Nazi collaborator accused by Hungary of a World War II killing.
Australian bid to 'regrow' breasts after cancer surgery
AFP - Thursday, November 12
MELBOURNE (AFP) - - Australian scientists said they were to trial a revolutionary treatment which would allow women to regrow their breasts after cancer surgery.
Australia in for 'long haul', says country's PM
AFP - Thursday, November 12
KABUL (AFP) - - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave assurances his troops were in Afghanistan for the long haul as he met the top US and NATO commander during a surprise visit.
Australian men undress and soap up at a car wash
AP - Thursday, November 12
BRISBANE, Australia - It was just a routine car wash.
Australian PM visits Afghanistan en route for India
AFP - Thursday, November 12
NEW DELHI (AFP) - - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited Afghanistan en route for India on Wednesday, his office said, as countries paid tribute to their war dead on Armistice Day.
Britain's last WWI veteran shuns Remembrance Day
AFP - Thursday, November 12
SYDNEY (AFP) - - Britain's last surviving World War I veteran shunned Remembrance Day commemorations Wednesday because he was against the glorification of war, his family was reported as saying.
Report shows 'tragic' health for Aborigines
AFP - Thursday, November 12
SYDNEY (AFP) - - Aborigines can still expect to die up to 11.5 years earlier than other Australians and are twice as likely to die as infants, figures showed, despite government pledges to tackle their health problems.
Australian dam project shelved to save fish, turtles
AFP - Thursday, November 12
SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia on Wednesday rejected plans to build a massive new dam, despite pleas it is needed to provide water to residents, because of its feared impact on endangered fish and turtles.
Australian territory becomes first to legalise gay unions
AFP - Wednesday, November 11
SYDNEY (AFP) - - An Australian territory became the first to legalise civil partnership ceremonies for same-sex couples, in a move supporters hoped would spark national momentum.
NZealand does not want SLankan asylum seekers: govt
AFP - Wednesday, November 11
WELLINGTON (AFP) - - New Zealand does not want to offer a new home to a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers involved in a stand-off with Australian authorities, the government said.
Australia jails 6 Indonesians for people smuggling
AP - Wednesday, November 11
PERTH, Australia - Australia has jailed six Indonesian fishermen for five years each for smuggling Afghan asylum seekers into the country.
4 Australian men face charges for nude car wash
AP - Tuesday, November 10
BRISBANE, Australia - Four Australian men who stripped down and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance.
Sri Lanka and Australia to fight human smuggling
AP - Tuesday, November 10
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka and Australia agreed Monday to cooperate to combat human smuggling as an increasing number of people from the Indian ocean island have fled their homeland seeking asylum.
Australians want PM to be tougher on boat people
Reuters - Monday, November 9
CANBERRA (Reuters) - New opinion polls added pressure on Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Monday to take a tougher stand against asylum-seekers and end a standoff involving 78 boat-people picked up by an Australian ship off Indonesia.