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It was a startling sight on the stone steps of Parliament House, the grand seat of state government in Melbourne, Australia: more than two dozen people dressed in black, many with their faces covered, each extending an arm in an unmistakable Nazi salute. The 30 or so people, who later identified themselves as members of … Read more
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese formally unveiled plans with the U.S. and U.K. on Monday to develop and deploy nuclear-powered attack submarines, it set off a chain reaction of questions and criticism at home, and notably within … Read more
Geoff Shaw cracked open a beer, savoring the simple freedom of having a drink on his porch on a sweltering Saturday morning in mid-February in Australia’s remote Northern Territory. “For 15 years, I couldn’t buy a beer,” said Mr. Shaw, a 77-year-old Aboriginal elder in Alice Springs, the territory’s third-largest town. “I’m a Vietnam veteran, … Read more
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne. Last year, my colleague Yan Zhuang reported on a group of men who had been abruptly relocated to a motel in Melbourne after almost a … Read more
MELBOURNE, Australia — Georgina Beyer, a New Zealand politician who charted a daunting course as the person widely believed to be the world’s first openly transgender member of Parliament, died on Monday in a hospice in Wellington, the New Zealand capital. She was 65. Her friends Scott Kennedy and Malcolm Vaughan confirmed her death in … Read more
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Two weeks ago, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced a new service that would give users exclusive features and a coveted blue verification check mark. For a monthly subscription fee, users will get access … Read more