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After becoming the Labour Party’s youngest leader last month, Jacinda Ardern is disrupting Fresh Zealand’s political status quo – and may even be the next Prime Minister

By ISABELLA KWAI

The Best Movies and TV Shows Fresh to Netflix Australia in September

Every month, Netflix Australia adds a fresh batch of movies and TV shows to its library. Here’s what we like in September.

What North Korea’s Missile Tests Look Like to a South Korean Reporter

A conversation with Choe Sang-Hun, the Fresh York Times’s Seoul correspondent, about where the standoff might be headed.

Letter 23

Discussing North Korea

This week’s Australia newsletter features a conversation with our correspondent in Seoul, South Korea.

The Breakdown

After ‘Brexit,’ Can Western Australia Truly Be Thinking of Seceding?

A faction of the state’s Liberals is considering a motility to investigate violating away from the country. A far-fetched idea, maybe, but not a fresh one.

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM

The Breakdown

What’s Going On in an Australian TV Ad Opposing Gay Marriage?

The campaign to vote “no” on legalizing same-sex marriage attempts to refocus the debate on the welfare of children.

By ISABELLA KWAI

Sea Shepherd Activists Halt Pursuit of Japanese Whalers

The group has called off its annual pursuit of Japanese ships in the protected Southern Ocean, telling it can’t challenge with the country’s surveillance.

By MEGAN SPECIA

Trilobites

Hints of Trigonometry on a Three,700-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet

Scholars have debated for decades the purpose of sixty numbers written on a petite clay tablet. Two Australian mathematicians believe they have figured it out.

By KENNETH CHANG

Australian State Liquidates Racially Offensive Place Names

The names of several mountains and creeks in Queensland containing racial slurs have been liquidated from the state’s records, the latest such stir in a country still reckoning with its colonial past.

By ISABELLA KWAI

Editorials and Op-Eds

Contributing Op-Ed Writer

Is Naming and Shaming Rapists the Only Way to Bring Them to Justice?

The courts have failed, so women are taking to social media to expose the studs they say attacked them.

Op-Ed Columnist

Australia’s Desperate Refugee Obstinacy

Turnbull pleads with Trump. He should do the decent thing and bring banished migrants to Australia.

Contributing Op-Ed Writer

Immigration as a Security Threat

We can chart Australia’s public conception of immigration from being a central aspect of its multicultural character to a threat to be managed.

Contributing Op-Ed Writer

Unwind and Let Your Kids Indulge in TV

Putting boundaries on screen time for children has become a statement of class, order, purity and parental authority.

Op-Ed Contributor

Australia’s Bulwark Against the Far Right

Australia has never been a superb power, so populist appeals to a lost national glory have little currency.

By DAVID T. SMITH

Australia Letter

Letter 22

American Exasperation and Australian Humor

This week’s newsletter: impressions of the United States after a latest visit, and readers’ comments on Australian banter.

Letter 21

Australian Friendliness, Shopping, Faith in Government . and Angst?

A collection of Oz very first impressions pack this week’s newsletter. Plus: Profiling The Fresh York Times’s puzzle master.

Letter 20

Australia’s Greatest (Dying) Global Asset

We’re off the coast of Queensland for this week’s newsletter. And it’s not looking good.

Letter Nineteen

American Shooting, Australian Anguish

This week’s Australia Letter reflects on American policing and the case of Justine Damond, who was fatally shot Saturday by a Minneapolis police officer.

Letter Eighteen

Myth and Reality in the Outback

This week’s Australia Letter brings you on a visual journey through Australia’s interior, and more must-see visual projects from The Fresh York Times. Plus: Noosa.

Latest Articles

Global News Quiz: Trump Rebuked, Diana’s Death, Myanmar Exodus, Kenya Court

Did you stay on top of the most significant stories last week? Test your skill of international events with our quick quiz, recapping major news headlines and featured articles from across the globe. To take the quiz, click on an reaction, and the correct response will be exposed after you choose.

By BRYANT ROUSSEAU

Australia’s Immigration Chief Defends Cutting Support for Some Asylum Seekers

Peter Dutton said that asylum seekers who had been permitted into Australia for medical treatment needed to be compelled to come back to offshore detention centers.

Global News Quiz: Trump on Afghanistan, Riots for Rapist in India, Navy Under Scrutiny

Did you stay on top of the most significant stories last week? Test your skill of international events with our quick quiz, recapping major news headlines and featured articles from across the globe. To take the quiz, click on an reaction, and the correct response will be exposed after you choose.

By BRYANT ROUSSEAU

A Starlet Chef From Asia Grounds in Fresh York

David Laris, an Australian with a long résumé and a fresh interest in healthful eating, will open Eden this fall.

By FLORENCE FABRICANT

Founder of Australia’s Lovemaking Party Rebrands It the Reason Party

Fiona Patten is an unconventional politician with a background in the hook-up industry. Now she is attempting to build up more followers by going mainstream.

By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS

The Breakdown

Anti-Gay Posters Surface in Australia Ahead of Same-Sex Marriage Vote

The fliers, the latest salvo in a heated national debate, were denounced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull this week.

By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS

Colin Meads, Revered Fresh Zealand Rugby Starlet, Dies at 81

For many Fresh Zealanders, Meads epitomized his nation’s rugged pic of itself. As he put it, “Heads down, bottoms up and drive, drive for eighty minutes.”

By HUW RICHARDS

Times Movie

Around the World in Seven Markets

In three hundred sixty movie, sample the goods at markets from Marrakesh to London.

By THE Fresh YORK TIMES

Naval Collision Adds to Fears About U.S. Decline in Asia

Pics of a bruised U.S. Navy destroyer come as America’s allies have grown worried that the Trump administration’s deeds provide an opening for China.

By HANNAH BEECH

The Breakdown

Crown Prince of Denmark Turned Away From Australian Bar for Lack of ID

The scene has drawn attention to a fresh state law that has angered bar owners and patrons by requiring that identification cards be scanned to build up entry.

By ISABELLA KWAI

The Breakdown

Australia Plans More Barriers in Public Spaces After Attacks in Spain

After the vehicle attacks in Spain that killed fourteen people, Australia’s prime minister has exposed a counterterrorism plan to protect crowded public spaces.

By ISABELLA KWAI

Victims of the Terrorist Attacks in Spain

Dignitaries and officials held a minute of muffle for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Spain. They were citizens of thirty four countries. Here are a few of them.

Global News Quiz: Terrorism, Landslides and a Surprising Fight in the Pacific

Did you stay on top of the most significant stories last week? Test your skill of international events with our quick quiz, recapping major news headlines and featured articles from across the globe. To take the quiz, click on an response, and the correct response will be exposed after you choose.

By BRYANT ROUSSEAU

Stuart J. Thompson, Award-Winning Broadway Producer, Dies at 62

Mr. Thompson, whose productions were nominated for twenty Tony Awards and won six, helped climb on hits like “The Book of Mormon.” “He elevated me,” said Patti LuPone.

By CHRISTOPHER MELE

U.S. Army Team and Pilots Missing After Helicopter Vanishes in Hawaii

The Coast Guard was searching for five people who were aboard a Black Hawk helicopter in a training exercise. It was the third crash in about a month involving U.S. military aircraft.

By CHRISTINE HAUSER

Australian Senator Wears Burqa in Parliament to Thrust for Ban

The stir by Pauline Hanson, the leader of the anti-immigrant One Nation party, drew strong criticism, with one lawmaker denouncing it as “appalling.”

By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS

Sperm Count in Western Dudes Has Dropped Over fifty Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds

Research that studied nectar samples from almost 43,000 studs from fifty countries detected a acute downward trend that is provoking broad health concerns.

Turnbull Renounces City’s Vote to Drop References to Australia Day

Comments by the prime minister, who called the decision by Yarra “a repudiation” of national values, stoked discussion about the meaning of the holiday.

By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS

Australian Government Accuses Fresh Zealand of Attempting to Undermine It

Australia’s top diplomat said a Fresh Zealand party was meddling in her country’s politics by exposing questions about the citizenship of Australia’s deputy prime minister.

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM

The Breakdown

Australia Archbishop Rejects Sex-Abuse Exception to the Secrecy of Confession

A government panel wants priests to expose when they hear of sexual manhandle in the sanctity of the confessional, but the archbishop of Melbourne said he’d rather go to jail.

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