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.
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.
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
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
Abbott vows to be Australia's 'PM for Aborigines' Australian conservative leader Tony Abbott pledged Saturday to spend one week every year in a remote indigenous community if elected, saying he wanted to be the "prime minister for Aboriginal affairs".
'Australian men don't tell' says Assange of Sweden sex case Julian Assange says he will not publicly address Swedish sex allegations before his bid for office in Australia because "Australian men don't like to talk about their private lives".
08 August 2013
Developer makes Australia's biggest charity donation A wealthy property developer on Wednesday pledged Aus$50.1 million to the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in what is believed to be the largest single charitable donation by an Australian.
07 August 2013
Australian politician quits over lewd texts An Australian politician was forced to quit a parliamentary ethics committee after his ex-mistress revealed lewd texts he sent her, including one reportedly of his penis in a glass of red wine.
Australian mine firm guilty of Aboriginal site desecration An Australian mining firm was convicted Friday of desecrating a sacred outback Aboriginal site in a landmark ruling protecting the beliefs of the beleaguered minority in the country.
Dumped Australian PM Gillard says sexism 'glossed over' Australia's first female leader Julia Gillard has spoken out against the "glossed over" sexism of her tenure, saying it would have ended political careers had it been about race.
27 July 2013
US Navy to retrieve bombs it dropped over Barrier Reef The United States Navy said Friday it will spearhead a search for four unarmed bombs it dropped over Australia's Great Barrier Reef and make sure they are safely removed.