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T he Australians are coming to London – and they want to take Britons back with them to solve a shortage of key workers Down Under. Teachers, police officers, nurses and doctors are among the targets of government officials from Western Australia who have over 30,000 job vacancies left open by a booming economy. And they are not shy about their intentions. “We are here to steal your workers,” said Paul Papalia, the Western Australia police and defence industry minister, who will lead a delegation that arrives in the UK on February 25. The misson’s timing comes toward the end...

St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, has a partisan political message on a massive billboard above the cathedral's front entrance: Let's Fully Welcome Refugees. The Archbishop has verbally acknowledged me as a refugee from Australia in Australia. And followed up in writing. Yet when police interrupted me praying at the entrance with an Aboriginal on 9/11 and dragged me away and physically assaulted and groped me (sexual assault), rather than talk with me, the Archbishop chooses silence. The police are now taking me to court. The leftist police. The ones who persecuted the late Cardinal George Pell with 404...

Australian Federal Police say they were alerted by the Western Australia Police Force on February 1 that three men were rescued from the ocean off the coast of the city of Albany, but their story that their fishing vessel had capsized seemed inconsistent to authorities. A little less than a week later, police say a plastic-wrapped package with packets of cocaine inside washed up on the beach near the town of Denmark on the western coast. Shortly after, an overturned boat was discovered off the coast of Peaceful Bay about 25 miles west of the town of Denmark. Police say...

When a five-year-old Queensland boy woke up with a headache while on holiday, his mum thought he had the flu — four days later, he tragically died in hospital.A five-year-old Townsville boy who woke up with what appeared to be a harmless headache while on holiday has tragically died four days later in hospital. Andre Daisy, 5, died unexpectedly after coming down with flu-like symptoms on a family holiday with his mother Trudy Stanley-Thaiday, step-dad Jarick and his three sisters, in Brisbane on February 2. His mother said she thought her son had caught the flu when he developed a...

Natalie Curtis, who suffered with spina bifida and was a member of Australia's wheelchair basketball squad before the delayed 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, has died aged 34Australian Paralympian Natalie Curtis has died suddenly at the age of 34. The basketball player was a member of Australia's wheelchair basketball squad ahead of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where the Aussies missed out on a medal. She was also renowned for raising awareness of disability sports and athletes. Curtis died on February 5 but the cause of death is not yet known. The tragic news was confirmed on Facebook by her...

I published this amateur black comedy video (please click the red link below thwe title above, then click the videopress address. three years ago today. Suicide afflicts men badly but is a taboo subject. Like criticising feminism. No laughing matter? Or too ridiculous for words? For those who might have trouble with the bogan (redneck) Aussie accent, here is the text: (Title: A Rat is in the Kitchen) Jim ‘ere. (subtitle: It’s Jim here.) I’ve got something to say about modern feminism and what it’s like to be a bloke in Australia. (subtitles: Male victim of endless persecution) It’s really...

Young Australian actor Sariah Saibu, who starred in the award-winning film Beautiful They has died suddenly.Young Aussie actress Sariah Saibu, who starred in the award-winning film Beautiful They has died suddenly. Sariah’s family confirmed on social media that she passed on January 30th but didn’t share her cause of death. “This morning we lost our darling Sariah,” her aunt Cassandra Colvin wrote on Facebook. “I am struggling to find the words to express the grief that I and her family are feeling at this time. “RIP beautiful – all our love always.” Sariah starred in the short LGBTQI+ film Beautiful...

Shirley Temple was my childhood friend. She made me happy. A Great American. All around the world.

How a decade of quiet planning and Western fear of spies is turning China into a scientific powerhouseChinese-American physicist Xiaoxing Xi is still haunted by the memory of an early morning in 2015, when a group of FBI officers surrounded his home in Pennsylvania. The agents pointed guns at his wife and two daughters and then handcuffed him. The former chair of Temple University's physics department was charged with leaking sensitive technology to the Chinese government. Prosecutors accused Professor Xi of secretly sharing the design of a pocket heater for a supercomputer with scientists in China. Overnight, Professor Xi's face...

Australia will remove Chinese-made surveillance cameras from defence sites over national security fears. It comes after an audit found 900 pieces of surveillance equipment built by companies Hikvision and Dahua on government estates. The audit of Australian government sites found the cameras and security gear were located on more than 200 buildings, in almost every department - including the foreign affairs and attorney general's departments. At least one unit was also found in the defence department, but the total number at defence sites is unknown. Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on Thursday said the government would find...

The Twitter hashtag #DiedSuddenly has been trending based on the plethora of sudden and unexplained deaths among the young and healthy over the past two years. Stories abound and here are a few found at the time of this writing. In Australia, “Fit and healthy 21 year old son dies suddenly in his sleep.” From the University of Arizona, “A recent member of Arizona’s men’s swim team has unexpectedly passed away.” In Detroit, a high school basketball player suffered a cardiac arrest during a basketball game. While they restarted his heart, he hasn’t woken up. Then there was Buffalo Bills...

A young man in perfect health passed away in his sleep just days before he turned 22. Rickson "Ricko" Williams, 21, went to bed at his home in Wallaville, Queensland, Australia, on January 11 but never woke up. His heartbroken family believe he could have died as a result of an undiagnosed heart condition after they were told he had an enlarged heart. His cause of death is still to be ascertained.

It is believed the girl, from Perth, was riding jet skis with friends on the river when the incident happened. Insp Paul Robinson, from Western Australia Police, said it was possible the girl had jumped in the water to swim with dolphins seen nearby. Fisheries experts say it is unusual to find sharks in that part of the river, Mr Robinson said. This is believed to be the first fatal shark attack in the Swan River since a 13-year-old boy was killed in January 1923. Australia typically records about 20 shark attacks each year, with most in New South Wales...

The United States and the Philippines have agreed to restart joint patrols in the South China Sea as the longtime allies seek to counter China's military rise, a US Defense Department statement said. The two countries had suspended maritime patrols in the hotly contested area under the rule of former president Rodrigo Duterte. During a visit to Manila by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, he and Philippine counterpart Carlito Galvez "agreed to restart joint maritime patrols in the South China Sea to help address (security) challenges", the statement said on Thursday (Feb 2).

An attack on two schools in Sydney for teaching Christian morality has some broader lessons FOUR CORNERS LOGO / ABC Four Corners, a flagship program on Australia’s ABC, broadcast a scathing attack on two private schools in Sydney on Monday evening. Their crime: encouraging students to be chaste. For MercatorNet’s international readers, this will be just a storm in a teacup, but journalist Louise Milligan’s spin on the issue may contain some interesting lessons for them, too. If there is one person to blame for the 404 days that Cardinal George Pell spent in jail, it is Louise Milligan. She...

After flying for more than 13 hours, passengers on an Emirates flight bound for Auckland, New Zealand, landed at the same Dubai airport from which they departed. Passengers boarded flight EK448 in Dubai on Friday, Jan. 27 around 10:30 a.m. local time, reported Fox Business. However, the pilot turned the plane around almost halfway through the 9,000-mile trip and landed back in Dubai just after midnight on Saturday, Jan. 28. The unusual situation occurred as a result of severe flooding at Auckland Airport, according to the outlet. Videos circulating on social media showed passengers wading through water inside the terminal....

On this day, 1865, the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery. Are we free now? Our spirits or our lives? Annika looks like she is. (Click the red link below the title if you wonder why you cannot see her here.)

As we all know, Australia hasn't been a bastion of freedom of late. Gun confiscation, Covid lockdowns, and entrenched leftist politicians like Dan Andrews seem to be pushing the Land Down Under in the direction of the Soviet Union.I've noticed lately on Sky News Australia the coverage of skyrocketing crime in the the city of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It seems that there is a particular crime problem among the indigenous population, similar to the Native American population on reservations here in the US.The news coverage of this issue, however, seems to be putting the blame for the...

Novak Djokovic has just won an Australian Open in straight sets against a much younger man. His victory was the triumph of a strong, moral, Christian man after PC stupidity attacked him last year and his father this year. The Serbian people I saw watching his televised performance were enthralled. Families. All generations together. Having fun. God Bless Freedom.

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Western Australia were searching for a tiny but potentially deadly radioactive capsule that got lost while being transported on a truck from a mine to a depot in the city of Perth, officials said Saturday. It is believed to have fallen off the back of a truck on a 1,400-kilometer (870-mile) journey from the Rio Tinto mine in Newman to the the Perth suburb of Malaga. There are concerns the solid capsule may have already become lodged in another vehicle’s tyre and potentially be hundreds of kilometers (miles) away from the search area. It...