Oceania News – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:38:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png Oceania News – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 Australian General Elections 2022: Authorities To Declare Final Results https://www.theinfostride.com/australian-general-elections-2022-authorities-to-declare-final-results/ https://www.theinfostride.com/australian-general-elections-2022-authorities-to-declare-final-results/#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:00:07 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=327110 Authorities are to declare the final seat on Wednesday in a greener, more fragmented Australian Parliament following May 21 elections. The election brought Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s center-left Labour Party to power for the first time in nine years. The Australian Electoral Commission on Wednesday declared the Victoria state seat of Cooper was the 77th [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/australian-general-elections-2022-authorities-to-declare-final-results/feed/ 0 Australia PM Morrison Seeks To Sell Voters $6.46 bn Of Budget Giveaways https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-morrison-seeks-to-sell-voters-6-46-bn-of-budget-giveaways/ https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-morrison-seeks-to-sell-voters-6-46-bn-of-budget-giveaways/#respond Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:00:03 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=321750 Trailing in the polls, Australia’s Liberal National government on Wednesday sought to sell A$8.6 billion ($6.46 billion) of budget giveaways as necessary to meet a cost of living emergency and not a transparent attempt to buy votes. Prime Minster Scott Morrison, facing a tough election in May, led the marketing blitz with a barrage of [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-morrison-seeks-to-sell-voters-6-46-bn-of-budget-giveaways/feed/ 0 Australia PM Morrison Declines To Comment On Djokovic’s Visa Status https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-morrison-declines-to-comment-on-djokovics-visa-status/ https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-morrison-declines-to-comment-on-djokovics-visa-status/#respond Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:29:29 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=316583 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday he did not want to comment on Novak Djokovic’s visa status and that it was up to the immigration minister to decide whether to revoke it or not. Djokovic was confirmed in the official draw for the Australian Open men’s tournament despite uncertainty over whether the government [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-morrison-declines-to-comment-on-djokovics-visa-status/feed/ 0 Australia Signs $717 Million Defence Deal With South Korea’s Hanwha https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-signs-717-million-defence-deal-with-south-koreas-hanwha/ https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-signs-717-million-defence-deal-with-south-koreas-hanwha/#respond Mon, 13 Dec 2021 12:52:48 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=314572 Australia signed a A$1 billion ($716.5 million) defence deal with South Korea on Monday, boosting Seoul’s efforts to grow its military exports. Under the terms of the deal, South Korean defence company Hanwha Corp will build 30 self-propelled howitzers and 15 armoured ammunition resupply vehicles for Australia. “It’s an important further chapter in the defence [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-signs-717-million-defence-deal-with-south-koreas-hanwha/feed/ 0 Saraki’s 2023 Posters Flood Ibadan https://www.theinfostride.com/sarakis-2023-posters-flood-ibadan/ https://www.theinfostride.com/sarakis-2023-posters-flood-ibadan/#respond Tue, 30 Nov 2021 07:00:35 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=313864 Posters of former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, for the 2023 presidential election have surfaced in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Our correspondent recalls that Saraki ruled Kwara State as governor between 2003 and 2011 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Saraki who moved from PDP to APC after ruling Kwara State [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/sarakis-2023-posters-flood-ibadan/feed/ 0 Australia Says It Was Upfront With France Over Submarine Deal https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-says-it-was-upfront-with-france-over-submarine-deal/ https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-says-it-was-upfront-with-france-over-submarine-deal/#respond Sat, 18 Sep 2021 21:00:50 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=308379 Australia was “upfront, open and honest” with France about its concerns over a deal for French submarines, its defence minister said on Sunday, as a new deal with the United States and Britain continued to fuel a multinational diplomatic crisis. Australia ditched the 2016 deal with France’s Naval Group to build a fleet of conventional [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-says-it-was-upfront-with-france-over-submarine-deal/feed/ 0 Australia Sues Facebook for illegal Collection of User’s Data https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-sues-facebook-for-illegal-collection-of-users-data/ https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-sues-facebook-for-illegal-collection-of-users-data/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:44:33 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=278510 An Australian regulator sued Facebook Inc on Wednesday accusing it of collecting user data without permission; building on government efforts around the world to rein in the social network. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it was seeking an unspecified fine from Facebook; for promoting a virtual private network as a way for [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-sues-facebook-for-illegal-collection-of-users-data/feed/ 0 Pope’s Top Aide, Cardinal Pell denies Sexual Abuse Charge https://www.theinfostride.com/popes-top-aide-cardinal-pell-denies-sexual-abuse-charge/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:40:27 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=173965 A top advisor to Pope Francis, Cardinal George Pell, has denied all charges of historical sexual abuse at his first appearance today in an Australian court. The 76-year-old, the number-three figure in the Vatican as the finance chief, returned from Rome earlier this month to face the charges in Melbourne Magistrates Court. Details of the [...]

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]]> Melbourne Cup 2015 – A Guide to the Runner and Riders https://www.theinfostride.com/melbourne-cup-2015-a-guide-to-the-runner-and-riders/ Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:10:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=105107 Next month sees the return of the action from Flemington racecourse for the 2015 Melbourne Cup, and this year’s edition of “the race that stops a nation” is set to be an absolute cracker. Here is a break-down of several of the runners that might just be set for victory, as well as a guide [...]

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]]> Crystal Palace midfielder Mile Jedinak named Australia’s World Cup captain https://www.theinfostride.com/crystal-palace-midfielder-mile-jedinak-named-australias-world-cup-captain/ Wed, 21 May 2014 07:00:54 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=43934 Crystal Palace midfielder Mile Jedinak was Wednesday named captain of Australia's World Cup squad following the axing of Lucas Neill. He will be backed by vice-captains Tim Cahill and Mark Bresciano. "It is a privileged position and an accolade he richly…

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]]> Australia plans to purchase powerful Antarctic icebreaker https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-plans-to-purchase-powerful-antarctic-icebreaker/ Mon, 19 May 2014 09:37:57 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=43596 Australia said Monday it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new icebreaker ship to bolster its claim over large areas of Antarctica and replace an ageing vessel. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said two Europe-based firms had been shortlisted…

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]]> Australian journalist held in Egypt defiant on press freedom https://www.theinfostride.com/australian-journalist-held-in-egypt-defiant-on-press-freedom/ Fri, 02 May 2014 16:50:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=39900 Australian journalist Peter Greste on Friday said his detention and that of his Al-Jazeera colleagues in an Egyptian jail had become a powerful symbol of press freedom worldwide. In a statement from his prison cell on the eve of World Press Freedom…

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]]> Australia’s Neil Robertson into world quarter-finals as landmark waits https://www.theinfostride.com/australias-neil-robertson-into-world-quarter-finals-as-landmark-waits/ Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:32:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=38983 Australia's Neil Robertson booked his place in the quarter-finals of this year's World Championships with a 13-7 win over Mark Allen on Monday only to barely miss out on a notable landmark. The world number one was left stranded on 99 competitive century…

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]]> Australian authorities plan to widen fruitless MH370 search https://www.theinfostride.com/australian-authorities-plan-to-widen-fruitless-mh370-search/ Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:00:46 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=38229 Australian authorities said Friday they would widen the underwater hunt for missing flight MH370, as the deep-sea search for wreckage at the suspected crash site neared completion with no results. Mini-submarine Bluefin-21 has scanned 95 percent of…

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]]> Sub dives deeper in hunt for missing MH370 flight https://www.theinfostride.com/sub-dives-deeper-in-hunt-for-missing-mh370-flight/ Fri, 18 Apr 2014 07:29:42 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=36627 The mini-sub searching for missing flight MH370 has reached record depths well beyond its normal operating limits, officials said Friday as it dived on its fifth seabed mission. With no results to show since the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared…

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]]> Australia PM warns of extended search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-warns-of-extended-search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370/ Sat, 12 Apr 2014 04:40:45 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=35097 The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will likely continue for "a long time", Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned Saturday, a day after voicing confidence that signals from the black box had been detected. The Australian-led…

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]]> Australian Prime Minister ‘very confident’ signals are from MH370 [REPORT] https://www.theinfostride.com/australian-prime-minister-very-confident-signals-are-from-mh370-report/ Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:58:52 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=34820 Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday he was "very confident that signals detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were from the aircraft's blackbox. "We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very…

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]]> Australian top court recognises ‘gender neutral’ sex category https://www.theinfostride.com/australian-top-court-recognises-gender-neutral-sex-category/ Wed, 02 Apr 2014 04:51:38 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=32475 Australia's highest court on Wednesday ruled that a person can be legally recognised as gender neutral as opposed to male or female, ending a long legal battle by a sexual equality campaigner. "The High Court... recognises that a person may be neither…

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]]> US to send more Marines to Australia https://www.theinfostride.com/us-to-send-more-marines-to-australia/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:36:59 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=30646 The United States will send 1,150 Marines to Australia in April, bolstering the roughly 200-member force already in Darwin, officers said Monday. The reinforcements are part of a planned deployment of up to 2,500 US Marines in Australia by 2016-2017…

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]]> ‘New Zealander slain in Libya mother-of-two’ https://www.theinfostride.com/new-zealander-slain-in-libya-mother-of-two/ Sat, 04 Jan 2014 23:35:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=8181 A New Zealand woman found murdered with a British companion in Libya was a mother of two visiting her boyfriend, according to media reports Sunday. The New Zealand foreign ministry confirmed the woman's name as Lynn Howie and said her family had requested…

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]]> Sparkling Sydney kicks off global 2014 party https://www.theinfostride.com/sparkling-sydney-kicks-off-global-2014-party/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:45:26 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=7175 Sydney kicked off New Year celebrations with a dazzling fireworks display, the first in a wave of pyrotechnics to usher in 2014 from Hong Kong to world record-chasing Dubai. Seven tonnes of explosives lit up Australia's biggest city, with fireworks…

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]]> Rescue of stranded Antarctic ship stalls https://www.theinfostride.com/rescue-of-stranded-antarctic-ship-stalls/ Sat, 28 Dec 2013 06:31:13 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=6673 A Chinese icebreaker has failed to break through thick ice to free a ship carrying scientists and tourists stranded off Antarctica, forcing Australian authorities to look at other rescue options Saturday. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA…

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]]> Australia PM hails Mandela as ‘truly great man’ https://www.theinfostride.com/australia-pm-hails-mandela-as-truly-great-man/ Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:33:43 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=3688 Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday hailed Nelson Mandela as "a truly great man" after the anti-apartheid hero died in South Africa aged 95. "Nelson Mandela was one of the great figures of Africa, arguably one of the great figures of the…

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