Month: April 2013

The iconic bed linen brand Sheridan is recruiting managers and sales consultants for the opening its first boutique store in the heart of London.

Peter Singer AC, preeminent Australian moral philosopher and ethicist, is presenting a talk in Cambridge on Wednesday 1 May for Giving What We Can and the Cambridge Union on effective altruism — a new talk on how we can all best help others.

Opportunity to join the Australian Business team - the leading Australian organisation connecting professionals in the UK.

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Kelly Lovelady is the founding Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of London’s all-Australian chamber orchestra, Ruthless Jabiru. With an incredible passion for music Kelly has an ambitious creative vision for the orchestra which is on the verge of being realised. The upcoming concert at Australia House ...

With growing budget cuts to compete with low cost carriers, many have completely abandoned their First Classes and stick to just Business and Economy.

It may have none of the frills and fanfare as might otherwise accompany a visit to an Australian cafe and it's not a place to linger in the warm conviviality of it all. However, Borough Barista in Marble Arch is fast, efficient and serves up a mean Anzac biscuit in ...

ASK ALLEY | We all love Big Ben and the Tower of London but after a while it loses its interest, and going to the same old pubs with your mates on weekends gets a bit dull. Our new columnist shows us four ways to impress your visiting friends with ...

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Knowledge-sharing and 'networked innovation' are part of the new collaborative business models for commercial success. Ensure your values, vision and priorities are aligned for a win-win working partnership.

The Nine Network’s struggle to fill the final remaining seat on its new-look Australia’s Got Talent line-up has been resolved today with the announcement that Geri Halliwell would replace former band mate Melanie Brown as a judge on the Down Under edition of the TV talent quest.

A run-in with an oversized backpack sends one budget airline traveller on a trip down memory lane.

INTERVIEW | Adam Pretty and Ryan Pierse, winner and runner-up of the title of Sport Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards in London, talk to Australian Times.

A 65-year-old man who disrupted the dawn service at Anzac Cove has been released from custody and won't face charges.

Australian news organisations have reported that Prince Harry will join the Australian Army for a six-month period on secondment later this year, with UK royal officials currently assessing the security risks that such a deployment would involve.

A protester has interrupted the annual dawn service at Anzac Cove at Gallipoli this morning, claiming that Australian police were trying to kill him.

Aussie and Kiwi expats came together to pay their respects at a dawn service in Hyde Park on a mild London morning.

ANZAC DAY IN LONDON | In a solemn and moving dawn service at the Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, High Commissioner Mike Rann paid tribute to our fallen comrades, and the architects of who and what we are today. The full transcript of his address is below.

ANZAC DAY | "All of us linked across the world by the same duty to honour and remember, and by the same sense of the loss and waste of war."

"If you want to understand Australians, watch us on Anzac Day," says prime minister.

Anzac Day protester interrogated after disrupting dawn service at Gallipoli.

The International Pirate Festival in Brixham offers the perfect escape — a weekend in Devon and the opportunity to dress up as a swashbuckling buccaneer.

Queensland’s education minister says his state won’t follow the lead of NSW in signing up to Canberra’s schools reform.

Combine your usual Sunday evening at the pub with a bit of culture, and support Australian playwrights and theatre in London with IronBark's PubPlays. This Sunday Camden's Colonel Fawcett will play host to a play by award winning Australian playwright Declan Greene, 8 Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography.

Feminist icon Ita Buttrose says it’s unfair Prime Minister Julia Gillard cops flak for her clothes, empty fruit bowl and her hair. Ms Buttrose also called for the introduction of quotas to address the minority representation of women in boardrooms.

INTERVIEW | Fresh from performing at Australia’s famed Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne’s Spiegeltent, EastEnd Cabaret bring their newfound love of Bundy and Cola back to London’s Soho Theatre with their show Notoriously Kinky.

Twenty three candidates from the UK have made it through to the next stage of Tourism Australia’s ‘Best Jobs in the World’ competition.

Australia House will open its doors in the name of charity on Thursday 16 May, as it plays host to a quiz night to raise money for the Spinal Research Foundation.

On Anzac Day we remember the stories of Australian spirit in the early years of our nation’s history.

Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders are expected to gather at services across London on Thursday 25 April 2013 to commemorate Anzac Day.

Head of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, Dr Anna Gray, is to present this year’s Menzies Lecture at the King’s College London Menzies Centre for Australian Studies next Tuesday 30 April 2013. The topic is Building Australia's Cultural Capital 1913-2013.

Australia’s population will officially hit 23 million on Tuesday at 9:57pm AEST (12:57pm in the UK) according to projections by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

An Anzac Day message from Australian High Commissioner His Excellency Mike Rann to Australians living in the UK.

The Queensland government have announced new changes to the state’s bicycle safety laws, creating an exemption to provide for members of the Sikh community that are unable to wear a helmet over their religiously-mandated turbans.

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Paul Smith is an elected councilor on Islington Council and currently the only Australian citizen who is an elected person in the UK. Paul has previously been involved in a number of Labour members election campaigns in the UK, including Ed Miliband. Paul is also President ...

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | Despite the disturbing football hooliganism of a few, our sleuth discovers a club still deserving of support in Millwall.

EDINBURGH EXPAT | Learning to love ... layers. The art of staying warm in unseasonably cold weather is one every Australian must learn when moving to the UK.

View the digital edition of this week’s FREE Australian Times newspaper, available every Tuesday across London.

Winner of the Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical, the revival of Merrily We Roll Along is about to re-open, this time in the West End. Damian Humbley, an Australian musical theatre performer, is staring in the highly acclaimed show.

The local population of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, have long found a range of alternative uses for the deserted bunkers built by the Germans during WW2. Now two enterprising Aussies have given one searchlight bunker the special green and gold treatment.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Two Aussies walk into a bar... they leave as great mates and business partners. This week, our Astute Aussie explores the benefits of networking in London for Australians.

ASTUTE RADIO | Latest podcasts by Australian Times Business Editor Sepi Roshan.

Two Australian soldiers will take part in a charity expedition across the Antarctic to the South Pole with Prince Harry later this year to raise money for wounded soldiers.

Kurt Fearnley spent most of the London marathon hiding from the wind and conserving energy before exploding past his rivals out of the last corner.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard warning her against naming a new governor-general before this year’s federal election. Government insiders are speculating Abbott intends to nominate former mentor John Howard to the position if the Coalition is elected in the September poll.

France’s Celtic corner offers rugged scenery, fascinating history and more flavours of pancakes than you can possibly get through in one trip. JOHN BURKE shares his tips and tricks for making the most of this unique stretch of coastline.

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | Surviving the London winter is much easier when you’re the one Australian who doesn’t tan.

Menzies House, a think tank with links to the Liberal Party, has sparked controversy by publishing a tongue-in-cheek article advocating the death of underprivileged Australians as a method of managing the federal budget. Wayne Swan has labelled the piece by right wing business lobbyist Toby Ralph "a disgusting rant".

Divinyls lead singer and Australian music icon Chrissy Amphlett passed away today after a two year battle with cancer.

Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, 59, who believes “beauty is an iron mine”, is included in Time Magazine’s List of the 100 most influential people. She is listed alongside Barack and Michelle Obama, Steven Spielberg, Kate Middleton, Jay Z and Beyonce.

Radical Australian preacher Feiz Mohammad has reportedly been cited by Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, with a YouTube user by that name believed to have shared videos of the controversial Muslim cleric online.

South Australia will transition to the full national disability insurance scheme, covering all people with a disability by mid-2019.