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Australia rejects the court ruling in Myanmar against Australian Professor Sean Turnell and calls for his immediate release, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday.

Myanmar junta’s sentencing of ousted leader and economic adviser Sean Turnell described as ‘cruel injustice’

Australia’s federal and state governments have called for Optus to pay for replacing passports and driver’s licenses after 9.8 million of the telecommunications company’s customers had personal data stolen by computer hackers

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong asks Optus to cover the passport application fees for anyone affected by last week's massive data breach.

The good news it some victims of the Optus hack can get cheap or free licence replacements. The bad news is the days of ‘cheaper’ petrol are over — the fuel excise reduction ends at 11.59pm today so Australians will pay at least 22 cents a litre more to keep…

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will be referred to the Australian Human Rights Commission by NSW Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi after she doubled down on

The Greens tried to censure One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for a Tweet branded as "racist", but the Senate instead voted to condemn all forms of racism.

'Thais that bind: secret mission ends Aussie's torment," read the front page headline of The Australian on Nov 22, 2020. It was referring to Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic arrested in late 2018 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard as she was about to leave Tehran over an espionage charge.…

The foreign minister intensified her criticism of Russia after Mr Putin announced his country will mobilise hundreds of thousands of troops to fight in Ukraine.