Australian immigration officers strike at airports, ports

Canberra: Australia’s Immigration and Border Force officials on Monday commenced a two-week long strike in airports and cruise ship ports across the country protesting against a long-running dispute with the government over pay rise, authorities said.

Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) had previously said a strike would not occur if the government agreed to a 12.5 per cent pay rise, but the union’s national secretary Nadine Flood said workers

Threat of terror attack in Australia ‘real’, PM says

Sydney: The threat of a terror attack in Australia is “real”, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said after the so-called Daesh group urged followers to target Sydney’s beachside Bondi and the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Responding to an English-language online magazine that singled out prominent Australian locations at which to kill people, Turnbull said it was a “disturbing reminder” of the security situation.

“We have a threat level of ‘probable’, so it is a real threat,” he said late on Tuesday when speaking to reporters in Vientiane, Laos.

“The capacity of Daesh, of cours