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$Earlier this year New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accused Australia of sending back people who were not \genuine Kiwis\. (Representational Image: AP)$ World

Australia deports New Zealanders despite virus travel ban

Since 2014 nearly 3,000 New Zealanders in Australia have had their visas cancelled on character grounds'

16 July 2020 10:43 AM GMT

File image made from video, Brenton Harrison Tarrant appears in a screen via video link in Christchurch, New Zealand. (via AP)

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New Zealand's christchurch gunman to represent himself at sentencing

The Christchurch mosque shootings were a shock to the world, which prompted immediate action for stricter gun laws in...

13 July 2020 3:23 AM GMT

People gesture to each other as they walk outside public housing towers that are a hotspot for COVID-19 in Melbourne in Melbourne, Friday, July 10, 2020. (AAP Image via AP)

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Australia slashes citizen returns by half as virus surge worsens

Some five million residents of greater Melbourne were ordered into a six-week lockdown this week in an effort to curb a...

10 July 2020 5:49 AM GMT

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. (AP)

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Australia extends visas for Hong Kongers in response to China's...

Countries like Canada and Britain too looking at options to accommodate Hong Kong residents fleeing the country

9 July 2020 6:36 AM GMT

A police officer directs traffic at a roadblock in suburban Melbourne, Australia. (AP)

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Australia closes state border for first time in 100 years

Victoria, Australia's most populous state, will be closed off from the rest of the country, and its 6.6 million...

6 July 2020 4:20 AM GMT

People maintain physical distances as thousands gather at a rally supporting the Black Lives Matter and Black Deaths in Custody movements in Sydney. (AP)

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Weekend-long protests in Australia to support Black Lives Matter...

An ancient Aboriginal smoking ceremony took place as families of those who have lost relatives while in police custody...

5 July 2020 9:22 AM GMT

A member of the Australian Defence Force carries a batch of swab samples taken from members of the public at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner on July 2, 2020. (AFP)

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Thanks to conspiracy theories, Australians are refusing to test for...

Health officials in southern state of Victoria pled with the public to get themselves tested and to ignore...

3 July 2020 7:10 AM GMT

Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020, on the 23rd anniversary of the citys handover from Britain to China. (AFP)

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Australia considering to provide 'safe haven' for Hong Kongers

China's parliament passed the controversial national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday against disapproval from...

2 July 2020 5:15 AM GMT

New Zealand Health Minister David Clark, center, flanked by Cabinet colleagues Grant Robertson, left, and Kris Faafoi arrives at a press conference where he announced his resignationat parliament in Wellington, New Zealand Thursday, July 2, 2020. (AP)

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New Zealand's health minister resigns after virus blunders

'It is essential our health leadership has the confidence of the New Zealand public,' PM Jacinda Ardern said in a...

2 July 2020 3:21 AM GMT

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. (AP)

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Australia escalates defences amid rising tensions with China

Just as US has angrily demanded to its allies, Australia's government has committed to spending at least two percent of...

1 July 2020 4:10 AM GMT

A member of the Australian Defence Force (L) takes a swab for a COVID-19 coronavirus test on a member of the public in Melbourne on June 27, 2020. (AFP)

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Australia sees second wave of virus after restrictions eased

The country reported its biggest daily rise in COVID-19 cases in the last two months and is now considering reimposing...

29 Jun 2020 5:54 AM GMT

Medical workers staff a drive-through Covid-19 testing site located in a shopping centre carpark in Melbourne. (AFP)

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Australia starts virus testing blitz to stop second wave in Melbourne

30 new COVID-19 infections reported in Melbourne overnight in a continuing outbreak that has raised fears of a second...

26 Jun 2020 6:39 AM GMT