Australia

Yasmin Rather in Melbourne: I’m learning so much. Nurses here have time to show me stuff, back home it was so busy

Sydney’s Jewish community gather for funeral of ‘Matilda Bee’, an ebullient, smiling 10-year-old girl

Police conduct further searches in the aftermath of the gun attack on a Jewish celebration

Alleged gunman had been arrested at scene of attack on a Jewish event at the beach and taken to a Sydney hospital with critical injuries

Ahmed al-Ahmed has received praise from political leaders for tackling gunman and saving ‘countless’ lives

Anyone expecting a social media ban for Irish teenagers will be waiting and it’s not because we are bad parents 

It’s a strange time of year. We experience a lot of ‘how things ought to be’ clashing with ‘how things are’

One suggestion is father and son sought military training from small number of active extremist factions in Mindanao

Pointing to Gaza as an explanation for the Bondi killings is victim blaming

Father and son killed 15 people – with another 25 still in hospital on Tuesday – in assault at Sydney beach

Video shows the moment Boris Gurman tackled Sajid Akram and wrestled a gun from him

Jackson Doolan ran barefoot for 1.5km to Bondi ‘at something that surely every fibre in your being would tell you to go in the other direction’

Family say Ahmed al-Ahmed would have done anything to save lives during Sunday’s attack in which 16 people died

Neither the political right nor the left has been immune from its pull

Gunman wounded during attack on Jewish celebration ‘is likely to survive’ his injuries with second killed at scene

Videos show father and son opening fire on Bondi Beach in attack that left 15 dead and 40 wounded

Shooting left 15 people dead, including a girl (10), and 27 people in hospital

Officials said the father had been living in Australia since 1998, and that neither man appeared to have a criminal record before the mass shooting on Sunday

Dubliner Kayla Phelan tells of fleeing gunfire as a father and son allegedly opened fire at a Hanukkah gathering, killing 16 people

At least 15 people aged between 10 and 87, including one of the alleged gunmen, died at the shooting in Sydney on Sunday

Shooting occurred at event celebrating Jewish festival of Hanukkah

Mass shooting at Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, resulted in at least 16 deaths

Over recent decades the east Sydney suburbs have become central to the Irish emigrant experience

At least twelve killed and dozens wounded in Sydney gun attack

At least 12 people have been confirmed dead, including a shooter, in the Bondi Beach attack

Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people

Synagogues, buildings and cars have been targeted since October 2023

Reader callout: Are you in Sydney?

Two people in custody following incident at event celebrating Jewish festival of Hanukkah

Moving away means exposure to a new culture, language, work environment and way of life, but there’s always the pull of home

Now that the Australian social media ban is here, surveys that suggested 80% of parents supported it in theory are beginning to look wildly optimistic

Across the world young people’s health is being damaged by a scourge that is luring them away from sport and other invigorating pursuits. It’s time to tackle it

The Irish Government is developing a digital wallet as an age verification tool amid online safety push

Company argues law forces intrusive verification and isolates teens from online communities

Prime minister Anthony Albanese says implementation will be difficult as teens post farewell messages

The country is trying to wean children under 16 off TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. Teenagers are sceptical

Parents and schools are working together to impose community-wide bans on smartphones until their children reach certain ages

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit will need to deactivate all accounts for under 16s from December 10th

One price, home and away: from a villa overlooking Lake Como to a thatched cottage in Killybegs

Instagram and Facebook start closing accounts of young people in Australia believed to be under 16 following ban