Tag: New South Wales

• Monday, October 2nd 2023 - 09:18 UTC

  A man dead and one injured following a collision between a boat and a whale in Australian waters

  

  Authorities in the east coast of Australia said on Saturday one man was dead and another injured after a whale collided with their fishing boat. New South Wales state police said the incident took place at around 6 a.m. local time in the waters off La Perouse, 14 kilometers southeast of Sydney.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Australian navy in emergency evacuation operations; PM Morrison jeered by bushfire victims

  

  The Australian navy on Friday began evacuating around 1,000 people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).

• Thursday, December 19th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Seven-day state of emergency in Australia's New South Wales state ravaged by bushfires

  

  Australian authorities declared a seven-day state of emergency in New South Wales state on Thursday as a record heatwave fanned unprecedented bushfires raging across the region.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Fires in Australia reach outskirts of Sydney: 50 homes destroyed

  

  A cool change on Wednesday brought relief for firefighters battling massive bushfires in eastern Australia which destroyed 50 homes and saw flames come within meters of homes on the outskirts of Sydney.

• Saturday, March 16th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Brenton Tarrant described himself as just an “ordinary white man” born to a working class, low income family

  

  A one-time gym trainer from rural Australia who became steeped in neo-fascist ideology during travels in Europe, Brenton Tarrant described himself as an “ordinary white man” - until he became anything but ordinary.

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Australian Catholic archbishop sentenced 12 months for concealing child abuse

  

  Catholic archbishop in Australia has been given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention for concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, is the most senior Catholic globally to be convicted of the crime.