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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.