Australia’s government said on Monday it had ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the assassination of a top Hamas militant in Dubai in January. Read the full story

The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week. Read the full story

Up to 100 police officers are being investigated in the Australian state of Victoria for sharing a racist e-mail. Read the full story

Former British child migrants to Australia and Canada say British government’s apology for shipping them abroad is too little too late. Read the full story

Australia has summoned the Israeli ambassador over forged Australian documents used by a terror team that assassinated a senior Hamas commander in Dubai last month. Read the full story

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that his country is now under a permanent and increased threat of militant attack. Read the full story

HACKERS claiming revenge for racist attacks on Indian students have targeted the servers of several Melbourne businesses, shutting down computer systems and resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost income. Read the full story

An activist group that temporarily blocked access to key Australian government websites plans to continue its cyber attacks, the BBC has learned. Read the full story

ITV has been fined for animal cruelty after contestants on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! killed and ate a rat. Read the full story

FOREIGN doctors, nurses and school teachers who speak good English and have jobs already organised will be Australia’s top priority migrants under a major overhaul of immigration policy. Read the full story

A poor university student in New Zealand who offered her virginity on an auction site has accepted a €23,000 offer to sleep with a stranger. Read the full story

The Moe mother, who drank litres of alcohol a day, got her five-year-old son so drunk he could barely speak or stand up, a court heard. Read the full story

David Kiely, a stockbroker with Macquarie Private Wealth, became an overnight star – and landed himself in hot water – after being filmed looking at revealing pictures of supermodel Miranda Kerr live on television. Read the full story

New Zealand’s Government has no plans to follow Australia, Britain and Japan in contributing to an international fund aimed at paying Taleban fighters to give up their guns in Afghanistan. Read the full story

Australia is the most sinful nation on the Earth, a study has claimed as the country ranked first overall in seven deadly sins, which include lust, greed and pride. Read the full story

The journalist who broke the story of New Zealand special forces joining a counterattack against a Taleban terror strike in Kabul has expressed surprise at the the reaction in this country. Read the full story

A prominent Japanese business and political adviser is warning Australia that a simmering dispute over whaling threatens to undermine long-standing free trade negotiations between the two countries. Read the full story

The number of Indian students studying in Australia is projected to fall by about 20% in 2010. Australia’s Tourism Forecasting Committee (TFC) has said the students are choosing to stay away due to a series of attacks in mid-2009. Read the full story