While the new restrictions on firearms have broad support, new police powers to crack down on some protests were criticized ...

An Australian senator who has long campaigned for the Islamic women's garment known as the burqa to be banned in the country has been suspended from parliament for a week for her protest on Monday in ...

Protesters have marched through Melbourne's CBD on Sunday, with an anti-immigration protest and counter-rally drawing a large police presence in the city. Police powers were ramped up ahead of the ...

Civil rights groups and pro-gun advocates in Australia have raised concerns that new fast-tracked laws will place undue restrictions on firearms and protests in the wake of ...