Kathy Marks

@kathymarksoz

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

Asia

Jakarta gunmen involved tried to imitate Paris attacks, say police

Australasia

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

People

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

Australasia

Another false dawn over Uluru as marginalised Aborigines stumble on

Australasia

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

Australasia

Minister defends characterising Putin with angry-face emoji

News

Plan for world’s largest coalmine sparks environmental concerns

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'

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Europe

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

Australia aims to silence whistleblowers in refugee centres

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

Australasia

Australia may finally recognise Aborigines in its constitution

Americas

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

Australasia

Australian man fired for drunken abuse at Christmas party was

Australasia

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

Australasia

Australian Broadcasting Corporation admits to 'an error in judgement'

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

News

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

Australia's political soap opera reignites as Julia Gillard claims

Australasia

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

Australasia

Gina Rinehart: Australian mining magnate loses control of

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Europe

Mediterranean migrant crisis: EU denies approaching Australia for

Asia

British grandmother on death row in Indonesia loses hope after

Australasia

Bali Nine executions: Indonesia puts drugs smuggling ringleaders to

Boxing

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: Is the welterweight challenger a

Australasia

Surgeon's career advice: accept sexual advances

Asia

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

Australasia

Head covered up child abuse at exclusive Australian school

Asia

Bali Nine: Australian government condemns pictures of grinning

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

Australia bemused by decision to knight Prince Philip

Australasia

Refugees detained in Papua New Guinea resort to hunger strikes and

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

Sydney siege: How the dramatic events unfolded

Comment

Kathy MarksSydney cafe siege: Australia becomes latest country to have its sense

Australasia

Australia's beleaguered Abbott endures one final nightmare

Australasia

How a newborn baby survived five days abandoned in drain

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

Sharia law 'obviously involves terrorism' says Australian senator

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Asia

Remarkable escape from sinking Indonesian ferry

Australasia

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

Asia

Indonesian girl Raudhatul Jannah swept away by tsunami is reunited

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

News

Cultural relations between Sydney and Melbourne soured by row over

Australasia

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

News

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

Australasia

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

News

Plans for five 'megaports' threatens Great Barrier Reef

Australasia

Missing Flight MH370: Now Australia outsources the daunting search for

Australasia

‘Creep’ Tony Abbott caught winking to radio presenter about

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

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

Australasia

Search 'tantalisingly close' to finding wreckage of flight MH370

Australasia

MH370: Search area shifts after Boeing looks at engine data

Australasia

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

Australasia

Hopes rise of finding MH370 wreckage as lawyers move in

Asia

MH370: French satellite images show signs of 'possible debris'

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