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By Raphael Hammond For 12 years, Australia’s so-called ‘Golden Visa’ scheme has allowed people making investments of at least 5 million...

The small Pacific island of Palau has been the first country to ban the sale and use of suncream. This is just one of the several...

My country is burning. The Australian bushfires have turned the skies from blue, to a deathly black, to a scorching red. The fires have...

This year saw the arrival of the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards and it was hosted by Ricky Gervais. In his usual provocative style, he...

In Australian politics, socio-economic inequalities and frustrations among indigenous communities are among a few of the many effects...

Even in these heady days of Brexit and Trump, Australian politics continues to lead the way in its example of absolute political chaos....

The United States has been the dominant player in the Pacific since the end of World War Two and has a well-established military presence...

In 2008 Kevin Rudd came to power in Australia on a Labour Party platform that promised change for minorities and indigenous peoples in...

The legalisation of same-sex marriage is an extraordinary achievement for a country with a relatively conservative social policy....

Photograph: Flickr Australia Day is a national public holiday celebrated across Australia on the 26th January every year. It is a day to...