HWPL Australia hosted peace conferences in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, to raise awareness about peace culture and the D.P.C.W Sydney, September 8, 2019 – For the first time in the 5-years’ of Heavenly Culture World Peace and Restoration of Light’s (HWPL) World Peace Summit, the Australian branch of this peace NGO hosted Legislate Peace events, aligned to the summit held …

A push by the federal government to impose an immediate ban on mobile phones in Australian classrooms has divided education professionals across the country. The technology crackdown, raised by Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan, is intended to curb cyberbullying and follows Victoria’s decision to introduce a phone ban in all state schools from next year. Mr Tehan met with state and territory …

There is a lot to Aron Baynes’s game these days, but the Boomers’ heavy-hitter is still keeping things simple. The intimidating centre was instrumental in shutting down French NBA star Rudy Gobert in Australia’s 100-98 basketball World Cup win that set up a Wednesday quarter-final against the Czech Republic. New Phoenix Suns signing Baynes (21 points) made five-of-six triples and …

Hayfa Adi is not demanding justice, though few deserve it more. At the age of 17, she was abducted by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, held for more than two years and repeatedly raped, beaten and traded like livestock. “They bought us as if we were sheep. Exactly like sheep,” Hayfa tells 7.30. More important for this young mother, …

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are appealing to President Donald Trump for help as they march near the US consulate general in the city. Some are carrying banners reading, “President Trump, please save Hong Kong” and “Make Hong Kong great again”. The protests, now in their 14th straight week, have continued despite Hong Kong’s leadership finally meeting one of the …

Sydney, August 24, 2019 – A peace conference to celebrate the inauguration of Afghan Peace Foundation as well as to commemorate the 5th Anniversary of the September 18th World Peace Summit’ was co – hosted by the International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG), Sydney branch, Australia, Branch Chief Manager, Lydia Im and Afghan Peace Foundation, President, Tahera Jehanbeen, on August 24th, …

  For the first time, the long-term outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has been downgraded from “poor” to “very poor” by the federal government’s five-year reef report. The evidence-based report is written by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and reviewed and released by the federal Environment Minister. The report said climate change is escalating and is the …

Australian universities are not doing enough to combat the influence of China’s ruling Communist Party, a group of Federal Government backbenchers has warned. The comments follow recent pro-Beijing rallies staged in several Australian cities against Hong Kong’s democracy movement — rallies which were praised by Chinese Government-controlled media— and come just days after Liberal MP Andrew Hastie warned about China’s activities. Fellow Liberal MP …

Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar has used parliamentary privilege to accuse those challenging the eligibility of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to sit in Parliament of being “disgusting, disgruntled, debauched” and anti-semitic. The extraordinary attack was condemned as “a total abuse of parliamentary privilege” on Thursday night. But Mr Sukkar said he felt compelled to highlight the issue, given the rise of anti-semitism. …

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of peddling porkies after claiming people on the dole secure $130 a fortnight on average in extra payments. The New Daily asked welfare groups, the Department of Social Services and the Australian National University to crunch the numbers. The Department’s figures show a majority of people on Newstart – 51 per cent – …