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George Pell's lawyers have filed an appeal in bid to have his conviction overturned

Ex-Vatican treasurer Pell seeks appeal over conviction

Vali Asr Square in the Iranian capital Tehran

Third Australian held in Iran is Melbourne academic

Illegal blazes to clear land for agricultural plantations have been raging on Sumatra and Borneo islands

Indonesia, Australia fires stoke global warming fears

Raine Island is the largest nesting site for green turtles in the world (Pics: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services Raine Island Recovery Project team)

Project to save endangered turtle nests off Australia

News Lens / 12 Sep

Jolie King and Mark Firkin, who live in Perth in Australia, have been held for the past 10 weeks in Tehran's Evin prison

Australian couple detained for flying drone near Tehran

Max Sylvester issued a mayday call from an altitude of 1,900 metres (File image)

Newbie pilot lands plane after instructor blacks out

News Lens / 02 Sep

Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority singled out rising sea temperatures as the biggest threat to the giant organism

Great Barrier Reef outlook now 'very poor' - report

Image: Corey Fullarton

Barge carrying sewage tank capsizes off Sydney

News Lens / 22 Aug

The interest in Australia's A$5 million SIV programme coincided with the start of the current unrest in Hong Kong

Hong Kong millionaires rush to Australia amid unrest

(Courtesy: Paul Wood / Brisbane Backyard Bees)

60,000 bees removed from Brisbane woman's home

News Lens / 21 Aug

Wombats are a protected species

Australian resort probed over wombat shooting tours

News Lens / 31 Jul

An investigation is under way into the crash in the Sydney suburb of Chifley

Irishman arrested at airport charged over road crash

Ireland / 30 Jul

The crash happened on the Pacific Highway near Forster (Pic: Google maps)

Kilkenny man dies in road crash in Australia

The special ambulance service will be run in Queensland

Australian ambulance to grant patients' dying wishes

Sergeant Martin O'Meara was born in Tipperary and fought for Australia in France (Australian War Memorial)

Irish soldier's VC medal to be displayed in Dublin

Ireland / 26 Jul

CCTV footage showed a white van hitting the front of a police vehicle parked outside a Sydney police station

Van with €125m of meth slams into Australian police car

Police described the scene as 'horrific'

Australian woman allegedly decapitated mother

Anheuser-Busch InBev is the world's largest brewer

AB InBev agrees Australian unit sale to Japan's Asahi

Business / 19 Jul

Bottle washed up on beach in south Australia

Message in a bottle found in Australia 50 years on

The children started their journey in Rockhampton in Queensland (file pic)

Australian kids take stolen car on 1,000km road trip

Alek Sigley had disappeared two weeks ago, but was freed last Thursday

N Korea says expelled Australian student was 'spying'

Christine and Anthony Hyde with their son Darragh

Irish family faced with deportation granted residency

Ireland / 06 Jul

The surgery did not have any affect on the patients' trunk control

Arm function restored in some paralysed patients: study

Health / 05 Jul

Details of Alek Sigley's release are not known

Australia urges student not to return to North Korea

Purplebricks entered the US in 2017, confident it could replicate its performance in Britain

Purplebricks announces exit from US market

Business / 03 Jul

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