Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled after director Louise Adler quit over Randa Abdel-Fattah being uninvited from the festival over her anti-Israel views.
But the group dedicated to Israel’s destruction claimed a law that could impose 15-year jail terms on its leaders was designed to protect the Jewish state from scrutiny over the war in Gaza.
An Australian teen is facing charges over hoax calls made to retail firms and educational institutions in the United States in a joint FBI and AFP investigation.
Fifty years after eight-year-old girl Eloise Worledge went missing from her Melbourne bedroom, police have announced a $1 million reward for information regarding her suspicious disappearance.
Easing weather conditions are helping firefighters tackle blazes that have razed homes and taken at least one life as wary authorities begin recovery efforts.