Members of the Australian media say that they have been in contact with hostages held in the Sydney cafe by a gunman, calling himself 'the Brother' giving an insight into his possible motivations and ...

Australian police locked down the center of the country's biggest city on Monday after an armed assailant walked into a downtown Sydney cafe, took hostages and forced them to display an Islamic flag, ...

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SYDNEY — Five people escaped from a Sydney cafe where a gunman took an unknown number of hostages during Monday morning rush hour. Two people inside the cafe earlier held up a flag with an Islamic ...

Australia’s government has bought the copyright to the Aboriginal flag, making it freely available for public use and ending a longstanding battle over the design. In a deal worth more than 20 million ...

(CNN) — Australia’s Aboriginal flag will replace the New South Wales state flag on Sydney Harbour Bridge, after officials scrapped a 25 million Australian dollar ($17 million) scheme that would have ...

A Sydney mosque is celebrating the national holiday with an impressive feat – surpassing even that of Parliament House. Celebrating the national holiday at the Masjid Baitul Huda in Sydney’s Marsden ...

The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of a "healing process" and reconciliation efforts with Australia's indigenous community, New South Wales Premier Dominic ...

SYDNEY — The acting prime minister of New Zealand accused Australia this week of copying his country’s 116-year-old flag and demanded that Australians come up with a new design. “We had a flag that we ...

A Subway worker has been sacked after footage emerged of her refusing to serve a customer carrying the Australian flag following an anti-immigration rally. Brett Sengstock, 33, filmed the moment ...

The flag had been at the center of a dispute, but the move allows anyone to reproduce its design without seeking permission or paying a fee. By Yan Zhuang MELBOURNE, Australia — When Laura Thompson, ...