Animal Issues – Astro, an 18-year-old horse who had the misfortune of literally being stuck-in-the-mud on Avalon Beach, Australia, was rescued after three terrifying hours. According to reports, Nicole Graham, the horse’s owner and her daughter were riding on the beach when they...

Social Issues – The United States and South Korea have begun a series of annual military drills that North Korea has deemed “provocation” and subsequently threatened swift retaliation for the war games, which will utilize hundreds of thousands of troops. Entitled Key Resolve,...

Science & Tech – There’ll come a time when transatlantic and transpacific travel as we know them will cease to exist. Unfortunately—or luckily, depending on your outlook—that’s about 50 million to 200 million years away. Thanks to the ever-shifting earth...

Animal Rights – As the world continues to grieve the 2006 death of the Crocodile Hunter (aka Steve Irwin), his father, Bob, is assuming Irwin’s passionate fight against the killing of sea turtles and dugongs in Australia. In celebration of Steve’s incredible contributions to...

Animal Rights – A petition has begun online to pressure the U.S. Congress into banning the sale of sugar gliders at shopping malls and kiosks. The exotic, cute little marsupials from Australia (land of marsupials, it seems) are often neglected when taken home as pets, particularly when...

Animal Rights – While mowing the grass at the Australian Reptile Park at Gosford in Australia, two workers found themselves making a mad dash as Elvis, a 500 kg crocodile, decided he wanted to help. Elvis, not known for his sparkling personality, blue suede shoes, or his rapport with the...

Animal Rights – If it’s one thing Australia’s greyhound racing industry is famous for, it might just be their despicable track record when it comes to animal welfare. The trainers of greyhound racing dogs are only fair-weather friends — when the dogs are succeeding and...

Civil Rights – Many in the land down under seem to be over marriage discrimination. A new video posted Australian advocacy organization GetUp is going viral, accruing almost three million YouTube hits in just one week. The two-minute video follows a young couple’s relationship...

Animal Rights – Almost one hundred orphaned baby fruit bats (aka spectacled flying foxes) arrived at an animal hospital in Brisbane after their parents were killed by Cyclone Yasi. The storm tore through the tree canopies – the bats’ natural habitat – leaving these...

Social Issues – In a case resembling one of those old black-and-white noir films, Sydney police just might be on the verge of unveiling the mystery man who left a briefcase packed with stacks of money at an upscale cafe. A cafe worker commented on the suspicious suitcase, saying that the...

Environment – Here’s a little heart-warmer: The oil spill in New Zealand could have surely wiped out the penguin population, but thanks to wildlife officials, forty-nine penguins were rescued, cleaned, nursed back to health, and then finally set free back into the wild. The...

Social Issues – Ever smuggle liquid ecstasy in shampoo bottles? Yeah, it’s a thing. Australian authorities have compensated one of their own citizens one hundred grand after finding that he was wrongly accused of sneaking drugs into the country in bottles of shampoo. After spending...

Environmental Issues – The last surviving sperm whale of the 91 whales that were recently stranded in Australia and New Zeland has died. “In all, 24 sperm whales and two minke whales died in a stranding on and around remote Ocean Beach in Tasmania. In an equally remote New...

Animal Rights – Animals Australia is gathering support for their cause as their campaigns have a way of stirring the most authentic human emotion-the kind that could make the burliest of the burly weep like a five-year-old. Playing a major role in the campaign (whose cause is to...

According to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, Fleet, who has captured the hearts of people around the world (and definitely mine) after being deliberately shot seven times, is “recovering well at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital and the severe infection he had in his hind leg has now...

In what organizers are calling “an effort to change public perception of the Gold Coast as a crime capital,” 357 bikini clad women marched down a one-mile stretch of Australian beach, apparently breaking a World Record. Officials from the Guinness Book of World Records were on...

Recently, we reported that Australia planned to release a YouTube video of immigrants waiting to board a plane bound for Malaysia in an attempt to prevent people from risking their lives to seek asylum in Australia. A move criticized by human rights organizations due to Malaysia’s lack of...