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A woman is rescued from floodwater in Melbourne, Australia's suburb of Maribyrnong, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Rivers across Australia's most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, and the island state of Tasmania were rising dangerously with catchments soaked by months of above-average rainfall. (Erik Anderson/AAP Image via AP)

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Homes inundated by swollen rivers in Australian floods
By ROD MCGUIRK - Associated Press
Thu,10/13/22-7:41PM , 364 Reads
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia’s southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days.
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A customer waits for service at a Optus phone store in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. The Australian government said on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, it was considering tougher cybersecurity rules for telecommunications companies after Optus, the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier, reported personal data of 9.8 million customers had been breached. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

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Australian police probe purported hacker's ransom demand
By ROD MCGUIRK - Associated Press
Mon,09/26/22-8:46PM , 322 Reads
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police were investigating a purported hacker’s release of the stolen personal data of 10,000 customers of the nation's second-largest wireless carrier and demand for a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday.
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Australian Governor-General David Hurley, center left, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, rear center left, leave at the end of the national memorial service for Queen Elizabeth II at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. An Australian national day of mourning for the late Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday centered on Parliament House, where dignitaries placed sprigs of golden wattle, the national floral emblem, in a wreath. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

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Australia holds day of mourning for queen with art, flowers
By ROD MCGUIRK - Associated Press
Wed,09/21/22-11:26PM , 274 Reads
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia honored the late Queen Elizabeth II with a national day of mourning Thursday, including dignitaries placing sprigs of golden wattle in a wreath at Parliament House, which she had opened on one of her visits three decades ago.
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Australia's Governor-General David Hurley, center back, speaks at the proclamation of King Charles III, on the forecourt of Parliament House in Canberra, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended a protocol that bars the nation's parliament from sitting for 15 days following a British monarch's death. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

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Australian PM defends ban on Parliament due to royal's death
By ROD MCGUIRK - Associated Press
Mon,09/12/22-12:33AM , 423 Reads
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister on Monday defended an obscure and longstanding protocol that bars the nation’s parliament from sitting for 15 days following a British monarch’s death.
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