Australia & Oceania

Australia & Oceania 01/15/22, 18:38

The tennis player Novak Djokovic was re-arrested and taken to the Melbourne Park Hotel, where he had held following the first cancellation of his visa upon his arrival in Melbourne, Australia. On Sunday at 9.30 a.m. (local time), an emergency court hearing will define whether or not the Serb will ...

Australia & Oceania 01/08/22, 16:46

The world's number one tennis player Novak Djokovic is staying in Australia's immigration detention after his visa was canceled due to the country's COVID-19 strict rules. Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic raised her voice to support her country's national idol. According to Reuters, Djokovic arrived at a Melbourne airport on Wednesday, ...

Trending 01/05/22, 18:32

After receiving a vaccine exemption on Tuesday on medical grounds allowing the world's number one tennis great to play in the Australian Open tennis championships, the Australian government has done a backflip and banned Novak Djokovic from entering the country. The move comes amid an uproar from Australians who were incensed. ...

Australia & Oceania 01/05/22, 18:24

Last December, a 74-year-old Brisbane grandpa sent the authorities an unedited clip showing 115 rooster crows in only 30 minutes, inviting them to his house in Brisbane's beautiful northern suburbs to hear the terrible ruckus. Gary Roden sought to modify the city's animal noise ordinances as his neighbor's roosters disturb him ...

Trending 01/05/22, 11:20

Jaala Pulford, a Victorian government minister, said there was a "blind" assessment procedure that had taken place, with no one knowing anyone's identity, and that Novak Djokovic was one of 26 tennis-related people who had requested for an exemption. She said, "Novak isn't coming to play the Australian Open [with an ...

Australia & Oceania 01/03/22, 15:30

Hundreds of COVID-19 patients in the Australian state of NSW were admitted to the hospital for a different condition, not because of the virus. As of Monday morning, Jan. 3, there were 1,204 people with coronavirus in hospital in New South Wales, with 95 in ICU, according to local site News.com.au. NSW ...

Australia & Oceania 12/31/21, 23:40

Molly Anne Taylor couldn’t be blamed for wanting a breather from the fast and furious world of rally car racing after winning the Extreme E title with Johan Kristofferson in Dorset the week before Christmas. However, it is all systems go with preparations for the big one—the Dakar Rally. Taylor has ...

Australia & Oceania 12/28/21, 19:16

As the most famous jailbreaker in Western Australia's history, Moondyne Joe is a household name. Joseph Bolitho Johns a Welsh blacksmith's son was arrested in March 1849 for food stealing, and the story continues from there. For Joseph Johns it was only a stepping stone in the career of a professional ...

Australia & Oceania 12/25/21, 01:56

A Devonport family has suffered double pain at the funeral of their son, Jye Sheehan, who died in the jumping castle tragedy a week earlier. As Daily Mail reported, Glen, Jye's father, was recently put into a coma after a car accident weeks before his son's death. As a result, he ...

Australia & Oceania 12/21/21, 05:16

After miraculously surviving a jumping-castle tragedy in Tasmania, an Australian boy has delivered a message to supporters. After the accident on Thursday, Dec. 16, Beau Medcraft was left with six "best mates" dead, two shattered arms, and a fractured wrist. He's still fighting on. Medcraft was injured during a graduation ceremony at ...

Australia & Oceania 12/17/21, 16:23

During an underground environmental impact assessment in Western Australia, experts discovered the first-ever millipede with more than 1,000 legs. The new species has been given the name Eumillipes Persephone, after Persephone, the Greek goddess of the underworld. This first genuine millipede has 1,306 legs and was discovered up to 60 meters deep ...

Australia & Oceania 12/17/21, 15:39

Children and staff at Hillcrest primary school in northern Tasmania were enjoying the celebration marking their last day of the school year before Christmas break when a tragedy unfolded.The festivities were abruptly ended after a gust of wind lifted a bouncy castle into the air then tossed nine children to ...

Australia & Oceania 12/10/21, 06:37

By Dec. 8, Seven countries, including the United States, Lithuania, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Scotland, and New Zealand, had officially announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. 1. The UK Boris Johnson, The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced that Britain would boycott the diplomacy of the Beijing Winter Olympics. They ...

Australia & Oceania 12/10/21, 00:39

There are simple events that might cause tremendous unanticipated outcomes. Such could come from a common incident where a small and thin smartphone slipped away from its owner into a tricky corner, especially during a flight.  A passenger on a Qantas flight to Melbourne in 2018 fell into such a situation. His ...

Australia & Oceania 12/09/21, 20:53

The New Zealand government announced on Thursday that by next year it would begin raising the minimum age at which a person can buy cigarettes year by year, according to The Associated Press (AP). The New Zealand government plans to end smoking with a lifetime ban for those under the age ...

Australia & Oceania 12/09/21, 20:17

According to official Australian sources, millions of citizens were minutes away from losing power as a result of a cyber-attack apparently carried out by Chinese hackers against CS Energy, a major power grid. The ransomware attack was carried out on Nov. 27, and although specialists managed to stop it at the ...