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New Australian PM to stick with PNG boatpeople policy Australia's new prime minister Tuesday said he will stand by a policy to send boatpeople to Papua New Guinea, but insisted a military-led response will remain his main focus.
10 September 2013
Australia votes with Abbott set for landslide win Millions of Australians voted in national elections Saturday with conservative challenger Tony Abbott heading for a thumping victory over Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
08 September 2013
Australian election clock ticks down on divisive campaign A poisonous Australian election campaign reaches its climax on Saturday with conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott on track to become the nation's next prime minister at the expense of Labor's Kevin Rudd.
05 September 2013
Australian tycoon to sue Murdoch, claims wife 'Chinese spy' Flamboyant Australian billionaire Clive Palmer on Thursday said he plans to sue Rupert Murdoch over unflattering allegations and claimed the media mogul's estranged wife is a Chinese spy.
05 September 2013
Australia PM Rudd clashes with pastor on gay marriage Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has clashed with a Christian pastor over gay marriage, using the Bible to support his argument as he explained his change of heart on the issue.
03 September 2013
Australia opposition's asylum-seeker plan 'crazy': Indonesian MP A senior Indonesian lawmaker on Tuesday described as "crazy" a plan by the front-runner for Australia's election to pay Indonesians for unseaworthy boats to stem the flow of asylum-seekers.
28 August 2013
©REUTERS/Daniel Munoz Australia's Billabong posts mammoth $771mn loss Embattled Australian surfwear brand Billabong reported a huge Aus$859.5 million (US$771.7 million) net annual loss Tuesday -- triple the firm's market value and far worse than analyst forecasts.
27 August 2013
Assange blames Manning, Snowden for WikiLeaks Party chaos Julian Assange on Thursday took responsibility for the resignation of a key candidate from his WikiLeaks Party running in Australian elections, blaming his focus on Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning.
22 August 2013
Australian PM says he is far from 'dead and buried' Embattled Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned Thursday he was nowhere near being "dead and buried" after a debate.
22 August 2013
Photo courtesy of ua-sv.com Australian lodges fork in penis for sexual pleasure Shocked doctors had to perform emergency surgery on a man in the Australian capital Canberra after he lodged a 10 centimetre (four-inch) steel fork inside his penis for sexual pleasure.
20 August 2013
Asylum-seeker boat carrying 105 sinking off Australia A rescue operation was under way Tuesday after an asylum-seeker boat carrying 105 people began sinking north of Australia, two weeks away from an election where boatpeople are a key policy issue.
20 August 2013
©REUTERS/Rick Wilking Young Australians getting fatter: study Young Australians have a reputation for being fit and enjoying a sporty, outdoorsy lifestyle, but research released Monday found they are stacking on more weight than any other age group.
19 August 2013
Australian PM's support slumps ahead of election A defiant Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned Monday not to write him off as a new poll showed his popularity slumping barely three weeks away from elections.
19 August 2013
Australian drug mule Corby a step closer to release The corrections board on the Indonesian resort island of Bali has recommended jailed Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby for parole.
17 August 2013
©REUTERS/NASA/British Antarctic Survey Too late to stop extreme heat waves: study Climate change will trigger harsher and more frequent heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of Earth-warming carbon dioxide we emit.
16 August 2013
Katy Perry confronts Australia's Abbott on gay marriage US pop star Katy Perry on Thursday took Tony Abbott to task over his stance on gay marriage, telling the Australian opposition leader she would not vote for him.
15 August 2013
Australia's Commonwealth Bank posts record profit Australia's biggest bank, the Commonwealth, on Wednesday posted an eight percent jump in full-year net profit to a record Aus$7.68 billion (US$6.98 billion).
14 August 2013
©REUTERS World-first study tracks dwarf minke whales Dwarf minke whales have been tagged and tracked in Australia's Great Barrier Reef in a world-first pilot study which hopes to solve the mystery of where they spend the summer.
14 August 2013
'No place' for sexism in Australia: PM Rudd Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday said there was "no place" for sexism, racism or homophobia in Australia as election rival Tony Abbott laughed off his touting of a candidate's sex appeal.
14 August 2013
Rudd makes gay marriage an Australian election issue Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Monday it was time to end the "acrimonious" debate on gay marriage, after he vowed to introduce a bill legalising same-sex unions if returned to office.
12 August 2013
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