A policeman tells a drunken Aboriginal father to take responsibility for his child. But the man can’t even remember his son’s name. Predictably, Bill Leak’s now infamous cartoon published in The Australian on Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

Family First Senator Bob Day has resigned from the Senate, but controversy now rages about whether or not he was validly elected. The argument is that he was disqualified under Section 44(v) of the Constitution for holding an indirect pecuniary interest in an agreement...

A Balinese Court last week sentenced 70-year-old Australian Robert Ellis to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing 11 girls in his home in Denpasar, Bali.

He escaped newly introduced punishments such as chemical castration, electronic chip implants and the death penalty for sexual abuse against minors, recently adopted by Indonesia under a new...