Fresh health advice in Australia has forced a change to the country’s embattled COVID-19 vaccine rollout program due to 12 new cases of a rare, sometimes serious, blood condition. Previously, over two million people aged 50 – 59 years were advised to take AstraZeneca vaccine but this has now been suddenly changed to the Pfizer…
Malcolm Turnbull To Become Australia’s Prime Minister
Australia is to have a new prime minister after Malcolm Turnbull ousted PM Tony Abbot as leader of the Liberal Party. The former communications minister received 54 votes to defeated PM Abbot 44 votes at the leadership ballot held at a meeting of liberal MPs late on Monday. However, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop retained…
Australian Mother Charged with Murder of 8 Children
Australian authorities have charged Mersane Warria, a woman in the northern city of Cairns with the murder of seven of her children and her niece. The 37-year old was charged while in hospital where she is being treated under guard for self-inflicted knife wounds, police say. Post-mortem examinations are being carried out to determine the…
Children Found Dead In Australian Home
The Australian police said eight children have been found dead at a house in Cairns, northern Queensland. Police said a 34-year-old woman had been taken to hospital with stab wounds but was stable. The details of the incident and the woman’s relationship to the children, aged between 18 months and 15 years, are not yet…
Sydney Siege Ends as Police Raid Café
Australian police stormed the cafe where a self-styled Muslim cleric had been holding hostages early Tuesday, ending a crisis that had shut down central Sydney for hours. “Sydney siege is over,” New South Wales police announced on Twitter. Police have not commented on casualties in the raid, but Australian media reported that some people may…
