11 December 2019
Bougainville votes with more than 97 per cent in favour of independence from Papua New Guinea in an important post-conflict referendum.
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11 Dec: But authorities are cautious about accessing New Zealand's White Island, which was covered with hot ash and steam when a volcano erupted on Monday, with the country's geological science agency putting the risk of an imminent eruption at 50 per cent.... more
11 Dec: Nature is putting on a spectacular light show this weekend, and the good news if you live in Australia's eastern states is you won't have to get up too ridiculously early to see it.... more
11 Dec: House Democrats have filed two articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump. Read the full text, annotated with explanations from our reporters.... more
11 Dec: Theodore Miriung was having dinner with his wife and children when he was shot dead. Twenty-three years on, his family is still searching for answers.... more
11 Dec: An ad for the ill-fated tour to White Island, where a volcano eruption has killed at least five people, boasts that tourists will "get up close to roaring steam vents, bubbling pits of mud and hot volcanic streams".... more
10 Dec: Missing Adelaide woman Lisa Dallow is found alive following the volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island, according to a family spokesman. Her husband and 15-year-old daughter are still considered missing more than 24 hours after disaster struck du... more
10 Dec: New Zealand's stunning landscape was formed by geological processes over tens of millions of years — and that same geology is what makes the North Island a centre of volcanic activity.... more
10 Dec: A Sydney family of four and a Brisbane mother and daughter and a family from Adelaide are among those missing in the wake of the New Zealand volcano eruption.... more
