How a fake mosque proposal duped the media | Media Watch youtu.be/DVodKi9OTuY?...

Palestinians left without shelter after Gaza tent cities flood again www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Fraudsters and intermediaries claiming to have access to Indonesian immigration officials have been scamming workers eager to come to Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Indonesia is investigating radioactive contamination at an industrial zone after US and Dutch authorities found unusual levels of radiation in some of the south-east Asian country’s biggest exports, including Nike and Adidas shoes. on.ft.com/3Mkld8y

The US government is ending temporary legal status for citizens of Myanmar, arguing they can safely return to the war-torn South-East Asian country. The government cited the military junta's planned elections as evidence of an improving situation. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

The UN's Population Division has found what many have long suspected - greater Jakarta, not Tokyo, is the world's most populous city. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Following Australia's lead, Malaysia aims to implement a ban on social media use for children under the age of 16 from next year www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...

How migrant and overseas Christians are helping keep Australian churches alive www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Iranians fear taps running dry as country faces worst drought in 60 years www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

How 'disaster capitalism' is looking to cash in on Gaza's misery www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

South African who attended Sydney neo-Nazi rally taken into immigration detention www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Indonesia has awarded former authoritarian leader Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has sparked accusations of historical revisionism in the world’s third-largest democracy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Done! Well done 🎉🎉🎉 Timor-Leste officially admitted to Asean, becoming its 11th member www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

What is happening over there in Brunei

Palestinians stream north and hostage families wait anxiously as Gaza ceasefire begins 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4-x... 📱 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

In August we reported on the story of 12 year old Huda, suffering extreme malnutrition. Her hair was falling out, and she didn't have enough energy to get out of bed. We're hearing reports that Huda died in recent days. Here's our story from August: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’

Under a presidential regulation Prabowo signed in late June, but made public only in September, Nusantara has been reclassified as Indonesia’s “political capital” – a phrase absent from existing legislation www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...

Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar especially smashed by deforestation in 2024 - new article by @geraldrflynn.bsky.social @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...

Sarah Mullally becomes the female leader of one of last areas of British public life to have been led by men.

Ambitious Asian students have made a beeline for universities in America, Australia, Britain and Canada. Yet lately the “big four” Anglophone countries have been losing their shine econ.st/42VP5xv Photo: Getty Images

The family of vanished Yolŋu leader Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda is calling on the Northern Territory coroner to pursue an ABC investigation's lead on his mysterious disappearance.

'Humanity's fate cannot be left to an algorithm': UN chief on threat of military AI. "Humans must always retain authority over life-and-death decisions," says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, arguing that AI systems cannot be allowed to run free in the military field

“The ABC’s capitulation in the face of political pressure means that a penalty of sufficient weight must be imposed to deter the ABC ... when it is confronted with similar pressures in the future.”

The ABC has been ordered to pay a penalty of $150,000 to Antoinette Lattouf for unlawfully terminating her Sydney radio contract after a judge found it “let down the Australian public badly” by capitulating to pro-Israel campaigners www.theage.com.au/national/jud...

Corruption scandals at Indonesian startups have eroded investor confidence in the country's startup ecosystem, further deepening the ongoing funding winter. trib.al/uF4tEeI

Australia has recognised Palestine as a sovereign state, becoming one of more than 150 countries to do so www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

JUST IN: Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer. https://cnn.it/3VmUl9n

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major United Nations report finds www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Breaking news: President Trump said the U.S. and China have reached a deal over TikTok that would mark a shift in ownership for the app and avoid its nationwide ban.

Australia and Papua New Guinea will be legally obliged to defend each other from a military attack on either territory under a landmark defence treaty, the ABC can reveal.

The firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found www.bbc.com/news/article...

During Indonesia's recent mass protests, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: cats reportedly left behind or stolen as their owners fled for safety. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Indonesia’s high profile finance minister Sri Mulyani has been replaced in a reshuffle of Prabowo’s cabinet. Comes after widespread rumours she was planning to resign amid the anti-government mass protests www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/2025090...

The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" — aka tricking journalists into writing about them — was a major strategy for them. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Lads lads lads

Exclusive: President Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One plan would establish U.S. control and pay all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population to leave.

The Indonesian president's announcement comes after days of protests across the country.

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Paetongtarn, who was Thailand's youngest prime minister, becomes the sixth premier from or backed by the billionaire Shinawatra family to be removed by the military or judiciary in a tumultuous two-decade battle for power between the country's warring elites

Lis Kramer ran the numbers

Out of touch: Why an increase in politicians’ allowances triggered mass protests in Indonesia indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/out-of-touch...

It is never acceptable to physically threaten a journalist — it is particularly unsettling that Mr Katter would invite journalists to attend a press conference and then threaten them for simply asking a reasonable question. #MEAAmedia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Israeli intel helped Australia uncover Iran’s role in antisemitic attacks – report https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-intel-helped-australia-uncover-irans-role-in-antisemitic-attacks-report/

The previous China correspondent was forced to leave the country in 2020 after a five-day diplomatic stand-off over a national security case.

In a sweltering KL cell, media freedom became personal m.malaysiakini.com/columns/7535...

Video shows a second Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, as first responders attend to the damage. The strikes killed at least 20 people, including five journalists, local health workers said.

Reuters and AP issue joint letter to Israeli officials to demand clear explanation for airstrikes that killed journalists in Gaza reutersagency.com/media-centre...

Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...