By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison insists his Government is committed to press freedom but “no one is above the law”, speaking in response to Australian Federal Police raids this week on the ABC and News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst. “My government is absolutely committed …

By SJA Jafri + PR MELBOURNE: Australian authorities have seized the country’s largest ever onshore methyl-amphetamine (ice) consignment, after Australian Border Force (ABF) officers in Melbourne detected almost 1.6 tones of the illicit drugs – equal to almost 16 million drug deals – in stereo speakers originating from Bangkok, Thailand. …

By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ SAINT PAUL: Former US police officer Mohamed Noor has been sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in jail for fatally shooting Australian woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk through the side of his police car. Noor was convicted of third degree murder and second degree manslaughter for killing Ms Damond Ruszczyk …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister (PM) Scott Morrison has dismissed concerns about a police raid on a News Corp journalist’s home more than a year after a story she reported. Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers spent hours raiding Annika Smethurst’s Canberra home yesterday, alleging there had …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies SYDNEY/ KABUL: Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers are raiding the ABC’s Sydney Headquarters over a series of 2017 stories known as The Afghan Files. The stories, by ABC investigative journalists Dan Oakes and Sam Clark, revealed allegations of unlawful killings and misconducts by Australian Special Forces …

By SJA Jafri + Monitoring Desk DARWIN/ MELBOURNE: NT Police say four people have died and many more have been injured in a shooting at multiple locations in Darwin. The suspected gunman, aged 45, has been arrested and the ABC understands he was recently released from prison. It is just …

By SJA Jafri + ABC News (Courtesy Messenger) MELBOURNE: Who authorized Australia? Who made world worst immigration laws? Who gave them permission to dishonor migrants? Who will answer the questions regarding severe crimes against refugees? Who will take strict action against Aussie authorities? Who sponsors immigration bureaucrats? Who allows them …

(Courtesy ABC News) Followed by SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ DAMASCUS: The first large group of refugees has been released from the camp in Syria that was established for Islamic State (IS) family members. About 800 people, mostly women and children, were allowed to leave the vast al-Hawl camp, which is also home …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies (Courtesy Messenger) CANBERRA: Police have raided the Canberra home of a News Corp journalist after she reported that the Federal Government was considering spying on Australians. According to the Daily Telegraph, the raid related to a story published in April last year in which Annika Smethurst …

By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Messenger) MELBOURNE: A non-stop sequence of cheating, fraud, dishonesty, disturbance, threatening and harassment has become the routine in Australia through fake calls by unknown local and foreign male and female thugs and clusters but neither the concerned authorities nor Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) even cellular and …