More than 250 asylum seekers are bound to be deported back to the island of Nauru. The Australian court backed its decision that the offshore processing of refugee is legal and binding by the law.
The latest data showed that more people are heading to New Zealand to live and work in the country. With that, NZ recently welcomed 24,504 migrants from Australia.
The Parliamentary Budget Office or PBO has released an estimate of how much the government could raise if marijuana was legal. It claimed that the government would make millions of tax dollars by legalizing marijuana.
Australia and New Zealand banking group is facing a controversial $30 million lawsuit from two sacked traders who claim that their behavior was a result of the company's explicit culture on drugs and women.
Aftera the 5-year-battle with tobacco giant, Philip Morris, Australia has prevailed in maintaining its plain packaging laws under a bilateral trade agreement with Hong Kong.
Australia won a legal battle against Philip Morris' challenge against its plain packaging laws. Since 2011, Australia has banned distinctive company logos to appear in cigarette packs.
Sharia Law is used to settle disputes over divorce for Muslim women that desires for freedom from their husbands. The law is embedded with its religious belief thus its significant is vital to these muslim women.
Philip Morris claims of free-trade was denied by the international tribune even though the company asserted that it infringe the treaty made by Australia and Hongkong.
A legal brawl is expected to occur between the Commonwealth Bank agaisnt the alleged fraud victims who strongly declared the unlawful practices of one of the nation's biggest lender.
The advertising agency behind the controversial Stoner Sloth ad broke their silence following a slew of mockery from social media sites at their anti-marijuana campaign.
It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy. Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal.
Two Australian warships will hold exercises with the Chinese navy in the South China Sea next week, Australia's defence minister said on Thursday, just days after a U.S. navy patrol near a man-made Chinese island in the disputed waters angered Beijing.
India's national security adviser devised a plan to secure the arrest of a fugitive Mumbai gangster in Indonesia as part of a strategy to hunt down India's most-wanted man, Dawood Ibrahim, police and home ministry sources told Reuters.
U.S. plans to send warships or military aircraft within 12 nautical miles of China's artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, possibly within days, could open a tense new front in Sino-U.S. rivalry.
India, Japan and the United States will hold joint naval exercises each year, Indian government sources said on Monday, as the three countries kicked off the first such drills in the Bay of Bengal in eight years, a move likely to concern China.
Japan and ally the United States can start making plans for a possible conflict with China after the expected enactment of defense legislation this week, but Japan will not be sending troops to back up U.S.-led operations against Islamic State.
An Egyptian court sentenced three Al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison on Saturday for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt, a case that has stirred an international outcry.
Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system, Dutch prosecutors leading an international investigation said on Tuesday.
