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New Zealands Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse (Photo: Facebook)

New Zealand tightens skilled immigration rules, Indians likely to face...

'We are absolutely committed to the principle of kiwis first,' New Zealand immigration minister said.

19 April 2017 2:12 PM IST

The new airport is the centrepiece of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbulls A$30 billion national public works drive designed to keep Australias economy ticking over. (Photo: AFP)

'Australia first' foreign visa changes spark cheers, fears

The -"457 visa-" allows businesses facing skills shortages to employ labour from overseas.

19 April 2017 1:31 PM IST

Australian PM Malcom Turnbull. (Photo: AP)

Australia to change work visa

Turnbull wrote on Facebook, â€œOur reforms will have a simple focus: Australian jobs and Australian values.â€

19 April 2017 7:01 AM IST

Turnbull, who will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, had earlier said Australia will be a reliable provider of uranium, among other energy resources, to India.

Now, Australia abolishes visa programme used largely by Indians

Turnbull said the new programme will ensure that foreign workers are brought into Australia in order to fill critical...

18 April 2017 1:02 PM IST

Laeticia Brouwer was the third person killed by a shark off Western Australia in the past 12 month (Photo: AFP)

Family witness shark kill 17-year-old daughter off Australia coast

Local authorities closed Wylie Bay beach until further notice and people were urged to stay out of the water.

18 April 2017 12:49 PM IST

The future of hundreds of asylum seekers languishing at an Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea remains in doubt;

Papua New Guinea to investigate 'drunk rampage' at Australia refugee...

Canberra has long defended its policy of denying asylum-seekers resettlement in Australia.

16 April 2017 3:50 PM IST

A still from the movie A Dogs Purpose

Shop owner bans 'black teens, dogs'

An Australian shop owner has sparked outrage after he put up a sign banning â€œblack teenagers and dogsâ€.

15 April 2017 3:56 AM IST

Wildlife experts soon realised that while cooped up inside the lab the python had been exposed to methamphetamine particles and had become addicted to ice, Daily Mail reported.

Drug addict python sent for rehabilitation

The snake was checked into the Corrective Services NSW Wildlife Care Centre at Windsor, south of Sydney.

13 April 2017 4:05 AM IST

The woman crossed the railway track without looking to her left from where the train came. (Photo: Youtube videograb)

Absent-minded woman ignores warning; escapes train accident in...

Auckland Transport rail services manager Craig Inger said it was dangerous if people used their phone or earphones at...

9 April 2017 10:00 AM IST

Zasheen Akbar was found with stab wounds by a fellow employee at the Caltex service station in New South Wales late on Thursday night. (Photo: AFP)

Police suspect ISIS links in Pak man's murder by 2 Australian boys

Prime Minister Turnbull said the murder of the service station employee in Queanbeyan underline' the govt's concerns...

7 April 2017 1:37 PM IST

Counter-terrorism police have made a series of arrests since late 2014 across Australia, with the young age and radicalisation of many of those detained, a growing concern for authorities. (Photo: AFP)

Pakistani stabbed to death by 2 boys in horrific' crime spree in...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the attacks were concerning enough to involve the Joint Counter Terrorism Team.

7 April 2017 1:02 PM IST

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Australias Prime Minister

China cancels Australian lawmakers' trip as tensions deepen

The controversy comes during tense diplomatic times in the Sino-Australian relationship.

6 April 2017 5:04 PM IST