Good samaritan beaten to death

Frank McGarahan, 45, was out with relatives on the eve of his niece's christening when he saw the pair being attacked. As the father-of-two shouted at the gang of 10 men to stop, they turned on him, inflicting a fatal head injury.

Unpopular Muslims, Superior Aussies

"There's stronger levels of social distance or fear of Islam or concern about Islam than of any other group at the moment," Dunn said. (Google)

A recent governmental report revealed that Muslims are facing deep-seated Islamophobia and race-based treatment like never before.

Six guilty in Australia's biggest terror trial

Benbrika, 48, displayed no emotion as a Victorian Supreme Court jury found him guilty of intentionally directing the activities of a terrorist organisation and of being a member of a terrorist organisation.

"Muslim Massacre" game causes uproar

A VIDEO game made by an Australian man that encourages players to massacre Muslim people has caused international outrage. Muslim Massacre is promoted as taking place after the US "declares war" on the religion of Islam and encourages players to wipe out followers.

The guy who developed this game would no doubt be in prison now if the game was named Jew Massacre...

Catholic, Not Muslim, School Ok: Aussies

"Why is that racist? Why is it discriminatory? It's very simple: people like some things but don't like other things," Sremchevich said. (Google)

The small Australian town of Camden, which had fought fiercely to block the building of an Islamic school, is now giving it's blessings for a Catholic school, drawing an outcry from Muslims. "Catholics are part of our community so we should be supporting it on this basis alone," Emil Sremchevich, president of the Camden/Macarthur Residents' Group, told the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday, September 9.

What, me a racist??? Nawwww...

New Australian PM signals Iraq pullout

"AUSTRALIA’S new prime minister Kevin Rudd will mark his arrival on the international stage by announcing the withdrawal of his country’s combat troops from Iraq and signing the Kyoto treaty on climate change."

Good riddance to John Howard

"Like most foreign elections, the humiliating defeat of Australia's Prime Minister, John Howard, was driven largely by their own domestic concerns, and it had little (though not nothing) to do with the U.S. Still, it is worth celebrating Howard's defeat in light of how pernicious a presence he was, as one of the very few remaining world leaders who loyally supported the worst and most war-loving aspects of the Bush/Cheney foreign policy."

Howard's reign in Australia is over

Australian Prime Minister John Howard walks past a campaign poster promoting his opposition, Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd, outside a polling station before casting his ballot at a suburban Sydney school in the federal election Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

"Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd earned a sweeping victory in Australia's elections Saturday, ending an 11-year conservative era and promising major changes to policies on global warming and the Iraq war."

One by one the "coalition of the willing" is falling like dominoes as "another one bites the dust."

Exit polls point to Australian gov't defeat

"The Sky News poll also points to a humiliating defeat for Prime Minister John Howard in his own seat of Bennelong in Sydney."

Looks like another one is about to bite the dust!

We won't follow US into Iran says Downer

Mr Downer says he does not believe America is planning to invade Iran. (Getty Images: Junko Kimura)

Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has ruled out Australian involvement in any United States-led military action in Iran.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has been writing about the possibility of a US strike on Iran for the past 18 months.

Mr Hersh says US President George W Bush is now focussing on getting support from allies, including Australia.

Mr Downer says he does not believe America is planning to invade Iran, but if the US did pursue that path, Australia would not follow.

"The American position is that they just don't rule in or rule out the military option," he said.

"That's particularly in the context of Iran's nuclear program, which the whole of the international community is concerned about.

"We're not planning to get involved with any military action against anybody."