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Kathy Marks

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Kathy Marks is Asia-Pacific for The Independent, based in Sydney. She has also worked for Reuters and The Daily Telegraph.

An Indonesian police officer placing body bags on victims at the scene of a bomb blast in Jakarta yesterday; a police officer and a Canadian died in the attacks
Asia

Jakarta gunmen involved tried to imitate Paris attacks, say police

A traditional aboriginal smoking ceremony for remains of Mungo Man
Australasia

The 42,000-year-old man who rewrote history can finally rest in peace

Salim Mehajer and his wife, Aysha, party outside their Sydney home on their lavish wedding day
People

The Sydney deputy mayor who just can't seem to stay out of trouble

Aboriginal women perform traditional dances near Uluru to mark the 30th anniversary of the rock being handed back
Australasia

Another false dawn over Uluru as marginalised Aborigines stumble on

Father and son Gino (right) and Mark Stocco
Australasia

Father-and-son known as modern-day Ned Kellys continue to evade police

When Julie Bishop gave an interview to Buzzfeed earlier this year she composed her responses entirely of emoji
Australasia

Minister defends characterising Putin with angry-face emoji

Greenpeace Australia Pacific predict that the new mine will be “a complete disaster for the climate and for the Great Barrier Reef”
News

Plan for world’s largest coalmine sparks environmental concerns

Canberra had more than a dozen sex shops. File photo
Australasia

Canberra's racy past: New exhibition tells the story of how 'Pornberra' became the throbbing heart of Australia's sex industry

Australasia

Australian PM Turnbull appoints five women to '21st-century cabinet'

Tony Abbott discussing his departure at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. His two years as Prime Minister were beset by controversy
Australasia

How Malcolm Turnbull seized his moment to unseat long-time rival

Tony Abbott discussing his departure at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. His two years as Prime Minister were beset by controversy
Australasia

How Malcolm Turnbull seized his moment to unseat long-time rival

Members of the tribe from Vanuatu’s remote Tanna island pose for the media before the screening of their film at the Venice Film Festival
Europe

Big screen debut for tribe who regard Prince Philip as a god

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks to the media outside Parliament House in Canberra
Australasia

Refugee crisis: Tony Abbott bows to public pressure to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees

Australasia

Refugee crisis: Tony Abbott bows to public pressure to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks to the media outside Parliament House in Canberra
Australasia

Climate change talks our 'last chance', say Pacific islands

Australasia

'World's worst waitress' dishes dirt on rude Aussie diners

A Great White Shark swims in Shark Alley near Dyer Island
Australasia

Calls for a cull of great white sharks in Australia divides opinion

The Christmas Island Detention Centre is reported to have shockingly poor healthcare
Australasia

Australia aims to silence whistleblowers in refugee centres

The Christmas Island Detention Centre is reported to have shockingly poor healthcare
Australasia

Australia aims to silence whistleblowers in refugee centres

Stephen Grott
Australasia

Australian Father posed as charming blond to dupe girls into sending

People

Phil Rudd: AC/DC drummer sentenced to eight months house detention for

The Australian Aboriginal Flag, right, flies alongside the Australian National Flag on the top of the Sydney harbour bridge
Australasia

Australia may finally recognise Aborigines in its constitution

Ashley Manetta’s memory loss may have been caused by ovarian cancer
Americas

'Sam': Mystery woman found in California suffering from amnesia is

Unlimited quantities of alcohol were served at the party. File photo
Australasia

Australian man fired for drunken abuse at Christmas party was

Kevin Rudd embraces his then deputy, Julia Gillard, in 2007, before the party came to power
Australasia

Australia's 'Killing Season': Documentary series opens up the

In a statement, ABC acknowledged 'an error in judgement in allowing Zaky Mallah to join the audience and ask a question'
Australasia

Australian Broadcasting Corporation admits to 'an error in judgement'

Gillian Triggs is a former ballerina and now an Australian human rights campaigner
Australasia

Gillian Triggs: the woman who stood up to Australia's PM on human

Kevin Rudd embraces his then deputy, Julia Gillard, in 2007, before the party came to power
Australasia

Australia's 'Killing Season': Documentary series opens up the

In a statement, ABC acknowledged 'an error in judgement in allowing Zaky Mallah to join the audience and ask a question'
Australasia

Australian Broadcasting Corporation admits to 'an error in judgement'

Gillian Triggs is a former ballerina and now an Australian human rights campaigner
Australasia

Gillian Triggs: the woman who stood up to Australia's PM on human

Tony Abbott said he was prepared to do ‘whatever was necessary’ to prevent asylum-seekers from reaching Australia
Australasia

Australian government paid smugglers $30,000 to take asylum-seekers

Australasia

Australian government paid smugglers $30,000 to take asylum-seekers

Tony Abbott said he was prepared to do ‘whatever was necessary’ to prevent asylum-seekers from reaching Australia
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed wind farms, such as this one on the outskirts of Canberra, as ‘visually awful’
News

Tony Abbott brags he halted spread of 'visually awful' wind farms

Joe Hockey has been accused of being out of touch with everyday economic realities
Australasia

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey's answer to housing crisis: Just get a

Journalists await the arrival of the refugees; just four people have volunteered to move to Cambodia
Australasia

Australia's A$55.5m 'Cambodia Solution' settles just four refugees in

Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd in the documentary ‘The Killing Season’, which chronicles the party’s internal strife
Australasia

Australia's political soap opera reignites as Julia Gillard claims

Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd in the documentary ‘The Killing Season’, which chronicles the party’s internal strife
Australasia

Australia's political soap opera reignites as Julia Gillard claims

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, a devout Catholic, is against gay marriage but will allow a vote
Australasia

Australian PM Tony Abbott paves way for same-sex marriage reform -

Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest person, has lost a long-running court battle for control of a multi-billion-dollar family trust
Australasia

Gina Rinehart: Australian mining magnate loses control of

Aucklanders fear the influx of Australians is pushing up house prices
Australasia

More people moving from Australia to New Zealand than in the other

Gammy, pictured last year, being fed by his surrogate mother Pattaramon Janbua
Australasia

Father who left Down syndrome child tries to access his donated care

Some 6,700 migrants were taken off boats off Libya on Sunday alone, as calm seas made the crossing to Europe less hazardous
Europe

Mediterranean migrant crisis: EU denies approaching Australia for

Linday Sandiford imprisoned in Bali, where she faces death by firing squad
Asia

British grandmother on death row in Indonesia loses hope after

An activist holds candles near portraits of the 'Bali Nine' in Jakarta, Indonesia
Australasia

Bali Nine executions: Indonesia puts drugs smuggling ringleaders to

On Manny Pacquiao’s home island separatist rebels will come down from the hills to join with their enemies to cheer on the nation’s favourite son
Boxing

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: Is the welterweight challenger a

Sydney-based surgeon Gabrielle McMullin
Australasia

Surgeon's career advice: accept sexual advances

March 8th will mark the first anniversary of MH370's disappearance
Asia

Flight MH370: Still no answers on fate of plane that went missing a

Ian Paterson was the public face of one of Australia’s most exclusive schools
Australasia

Head covered up child abuse at exclusive Australian school

Australasia

Head covered up child abuse at exclusive Australian school

Ian Paterson was the public face of one of Australia’s most exclusive schools
Australians Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Andrew Chan (right), the two ringleaders of the 'Bali Nine' drug ring, pictured being escorted out of court in 2006. 14 February 2006. The Indonesian court issued death sentences for Australian's Chan and Sukumaran
Asia

Bali Nine: Australian government condemns pictures of grinning

Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest person with an estimated fortune of US$11.7bn (£7.6bn)
Australasia

Mining mogul's granddaughter sues for $25m upkeep (and gold-studded

Gaffe-prone Australian PM Tony Abbott may have see off a threat from his own backbenchers amid rumblings of discontent
Australasia

Will Tony Abbott have to fall on his sword for knighting Prince

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their way to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Perth in 2011; Australians have been left bemused by their Prime Minister making Prince Philip a Knight of the Order of Australia (AP)
Australasia

Australia bemused by decision to knight Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their way to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Perth in 2011; Australians have been left bemused by their Prime Minister making Prince Philip a Knight of the Order of Australia (AP)
Australasia

Australia bemused by decision to knight Prince Philip

An asylum-seeker in Papua New Guinea has sewn his lips together in protest at his detention on Manus Island, right (Getty)
Australasia

Refugees detained in Papua New Guinea resort to hunger strikes and

Floral tributes were placed near the café in central Sydney
Australasia

Sydney Siege: Tributes to heroic hostages who paid with their lives

Hostages late on Monday night
Australasia

Sydney cafe siege: Killer Man Haron Monis filmed YouTube videos of

Hostages flee from the Lindt café in Martin Place yesterday after police stormed the premises to end Man Haron Monis’s 16-hour siege
Australasia

Sydney siege: How the dramatic events unfolded

Comment

Sydney cafe siege: Australia becomes latest country to have its sense

Australasia

Australia's beleaguered Abbott endures one final nightmare

The baby boy was dehydrated and malnourished, but otherwise uninjured
Australasia

How a newborn baby survived five days abandoned in drain

Asyulum-seekers on the island of Java were turned back to Indonesia by the Australian Navy while trying to reach Christmas Island
Australasia

Outcry after Australia takes ‘sugar off the table’ in an effort to

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd
Australasia

Thunderstruck: AC/DC fans in shock as drummer faces murder plot charge

Conman Peter Foster is back behind bars – for now
Australasia

Caught with his pants down… but can conman Peter Foster escape

Julia Gillard recalls the 'loneliness' of often being the sole woman at boardroom meetings in her book 'My Story'
Australasia

Julia Gillard: Australia's first female Prime Minister reveals the

Australasia

Julia Gillard: Australia's first female Prime Minister reveals the

Julia Gillard recalls the 'loneliness' of often being the sole woman at boardroom meetings in her book 'My Story'
Senator for Tasmania Jacqui Lambie, who has been dubbed the Sarah Palin of Australia
Australasia

Sharia law 'obviously involves terrorism' says Australian senator

Australasia

Australia offers new home to its would-be migrants… in Cambodia

Police patrol Sydney harbour after a “known terror suspect” who stabbed two officers was shot dead a day after Isis called for Muslims to indiscriminately kill Australians
Australasia

Terror threat puts Australia on alert, but ‘darkening’ situation

Teflon-coated: John Key acknowledges his victory on Saturday
Australasia

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key wins third term as scandals fail

Teflon-coated: John Key acknowledges his victory on Saturday
Australasia

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key wins third term as scandals fail

Norfolk Island plans to legalise same-sex marriage
Australasia

Gay marriage: Mutiny on the Bounty islanders blaze a new trail to

People wait to have lost election cards replaced at the election office for the upcoming elections in Suva, the capital. Fiji has imposed a strict media blackout of coverage of the South Pacific nation's first elections since a 2006 military coup, warning
Australasia

Fiji general election: Frank Bainimarama wants to be voted in as Prime Minister eight years after he took power in coup

Survivors of the sunken tourist boat recuperate in the town of Bima
Asia

Remarkable escape from sinking Indonesian ferry

Former politician and banker Neville Wran, left, with his wife Jill and children Harriet and Hugo, at a charity event in 2005
Australasia

Harriet Wran goes from penthouse to jail house: The downfall of the

Jamaliah (L) gives a hug to her daughter Raudhatul Jannah (C) after being reunited in Meulaboh, Aceh, northern Sumatra, Indonesia, 07 August 2014.
Asia

Indonesian girl Raudhatul Jannah swept away by tsunami is reunited

Gammy is now expected to travel to Bangkok for medical treatment
Australasia

Down's syndrome baby: Thai surrogate mother of 'abandoned' twin Gammy

The low-lying islands of the Torres Strait, such as Yam Island, are at risk of becoming uninhabitable
Australasia

Forgotten plight of Australia’s Torres Strait islanders: their land

Sydney and Melbourne are locked in a row over giant milk crates
News

Cultural relations between Sydney and Melbourne soured by row over

Protesters in Sydney have rallied against the treatment of the asylum-seekers
Australasia

The plight of a group of Sri Lankan refugees: At sea for over a month

Tony Abbott’s government has scrapped carbon pricing
News

Australia scraps carbon tax: Tony Abbott makes his country a ‘global

The boat laden with refugees hits the rocks at Christmas Island in 2010
Australasia

Australia blamed for deaths of 50 refugees whose boat was smashed to

Dirty business: A grounded coal carrier leaks oil on the Great Barrier Reef in 2010
News

Plans for five 'megaports' threatens Great Barrier Reef

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is not in the search zone where acoustic pings were detected
Australasia

Missing Flight MH370: Now Australia outsources the daunting search for

The moment Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott winked during a serious radio phone-in
Australasia

‘Creep’ Tony Abbott caught winking to radio presenter about

Kiribati is home to a population of 100,000
News

World’s first ‘climate change refugee’ has appeal rejected as

People

Billionaire fight club for Australian businessmen

The moment Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott winked during a serious radio phone-in
Australasia

‘Creep’ Tony Abbott caught winking to radio presenter about

Kiribati is home to a population of 100,000
News

World’s first ‘climate change refugee’ has appeal rejected as

People

Billionaire fight club for Australian businessmen

History of the First World War in 100 moments

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Bloodbath at Anzac

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Beijing, China. Abbott said Monday, April 28 that the underwater hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded to include a massive swath of ocean floor tha
Australasia

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Air search called off as new

Barry O’Farrell resigned after failing to declare a gift of Penfolds Grange wine
Australasia

Premier of New South Wales forced to resign over failure to declare

An underwater search-surveying vehicle sits on the wharf ready to be fitted to the defense ship Ocean Shield
Australasia

Search 'tantalisingly close' to finding wreckage of flight MH370

The search has changed direction following new data
Australasia

MH370: Search area shifts after Boeing looks at engine data

Police are pressing Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s family for information
Australasia

MH370: 'My father would never have crashed on purpose,' pilot's son

Satellite images showing locations of potential objects related to the search of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
Australasia

Hopes rise of finding MH370 wreckage as lawyers move in

Family members of passengers and crew on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, before trying to storm the building
Asia

MH370 search: China demands to see proof that missing Malaysia

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