India and Australia are likely to finalise a safeguards agreement during Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's visit to New Delhi next week. Gillard will arrive in New Delhi on Monday for a three-day visit.
Australian government approved, with strict conditions, a coal terminal at a port by GVK group that forms part of the $10 billion Alpha Coal project in central Queensland.
Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is reportedly set to target Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a possible defamation case.
Members of the Muslim community in Australia's New South Wales tipped off police that radical Islamists were sending 'inflammatory text messages' seeking support for a protest over a video deemed offensive to Islam.
The changes are expected to be in place by the end of this year.
India-born American surgeon Jayant Patel, who was recently freed from jail after an Australian high court quashed his convictions of manslaughter and grievous bodily harm to his patients, will face another trial. Patel, 62, was charged and convicted two years ago on three counts of manslaughter and one count of grievous bodily harm to his patients at the Bundaberg Hospital in Queensland.
In a major relief to Indian-American surgeon Jayant Patel, accused of the manslaughter of three patients in Queensland, an Australian court on Friday granted him bail, ruling that he had been the victim of a 'substantial miscarriage of justice' and ordered a re-trial.
Australian police have announced a reward of over US$ 100,000 on an Indian man who killed a student in Melbourne almost four years ago, before fleeing the country. Puneet, a 19-year-old who was learning to drive, lost control of his vehicle. He hit students Dean Hofstee and Clancy Cloker who were walking along City Road in Southbank in October, 2008.
Australian police on Tuesday arrested eight teenagers in connection with a spate of violent armed robberies targeting taxi drivers, including an Indian cabbie, in Melbourne's western suburbs. The youths, aged between 14 and 18 including one female, were arrested after a series of police raids on Tuesday morning.
An Indian taxi driver was attacked, racially abused and his car smashed, as a group of baseball bat wielding youth went about attacking and robbing cab drivers in Melbourne suburbs. The gang ambushed and robbed five taxis in separate incidents in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Grant Moore, one of the attackers, was jailed for three years for stabbing 25-year old Balijinder Singh to death, The Age daily reported. Moore pleaded guilty to one charge of attempted armed robbery and one charge of reckless causing serious injury during the court hearing
Toughening their stand on Syria, Britain and Australia on Tuesday announced expulsion of the country's diplomats in the wake of the recent massacre of children and women at Houla, describing the killing of 108 people there as "sickening" and "hideous".
An Indian-origin family of four, including two children, was found dead in Melbourne on Tuesday. The Australian police are treating it as a murder-suicide case. The bodies of Nilesh Sharma, 34, his wife Pritika, 32, five-year-old Divesh and three-year-old Divya were found at their Glen Waverley home in the city's eastern outskirts.
In a bid to rebuild the image of her Labor party, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday asked her two scandal-tainted Members of Parliament, including the speaker of the Parliament, to quit the party.
Australian scientists along with other international team claim to have designed a tiny crystal, made of just 300 atoms, capable to run a quantum computer so powerful that it would take a computer of the size of the known universe to match it.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday announced the withdrawal of most Australian troops from Afghanistan by the middle of next year, while rolling out her future plan of Canberra's role in the war-torn country. In a speech in Canberra, Gillard said Australian troops would begin pulling out this year and most would be home by the end of 2013 -- an election year in the country.
An Australian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which sparked outrage in India and put bilateral relations under stress. The teenager, who was 15 years old at the time of the incident in 2010, had appealed against it, claiming the sentence was 'manifestly excessive', given his extreme youth, guilty plea and unintentional nature of the crime.
The biofuel component of the fuel used for the flight was from refined cooking oil.
Two Indians drowned at a beach in northern New South Wales, Australia while swimming with a group of friends. The two men, aged 24 and 25, were swimming with friends at Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, when they drowned on Sunday noon, Australian news agency APP reported today.
Paper has listed five target regions in India which share similar interests to South Australia.
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