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• All deals off without Gillard: Oakeshott

  

  Federal Independent MPs are poised to pull the rug from under the Labor government if its leadership changes.

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• UK judges retire to consider Assange case

  

  Seven British Supreme Court judges will spend weeks considering the extradition of Julian Assange after hearing that a decision in favour of the WikiLeaks founder will contradict legal precedents both in the UK and wider Europe.

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• Julia Gillard calls UK Aussie Woman of the Year Award ‘pivotal’

  

  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has spoken out over 2012’s Qantas Australian Woman of the Year in the UK Award.

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• Australians could be told to earn £31K or leave the UK

  

  UK Immigration Minister Damian Green has unveiled a new plan that will see migrants kicked out after five years if they earn less than £31,000 a year. He was quoted as saying the UK wants “people who will benefit Britain, not just those who will benefit by Britain”.

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• Australia ‘needs elephants’ to battle pests and fires

  

  Unleashing wild elephants into Australia’s outback could be one way of fighting invasive pests and reducing fire hazards, an Australian scientist says.

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• Vanity cover shot for Australia’s Mia Wasikowska

  

  Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is among a cast of 11 women touted as Hollywood’s new leading ladies in an upcoming edition of Vanity Fair magazine.

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• Kevin Rudd just proud to be part of Australian government team

  

  Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says he’s proud to be a member of Labor’s federal ministry, a day after a senior MP warned he could not return to the prime ministership.

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• UN refugee boss to visit Australia

  

  The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency will visit Australia later this month.

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• Julian Assange back in UK court on Wednesday

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange heads back to court on Wednesday for the first time in 2012 as he continues to battle extradition to Stockholm where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes.

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• Singer Peter Andre turns Oxford speaker

  

  Australian-raised singer Peter Andre will address an audience at one of Britain’s most prestigious academic societies, the Oxford Union.

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• Floods and fires ravage Australia

  

  The NSW government has declared five natural disaster zones in the state’s north after days of severe flooding while WA fear a bushfire may burn out of control.

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• Australian Times weekly newspaper | 31 January 2012

  

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

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• Australia Day fiasco boosts Labor favour

  

  Labor has received a lift in the polls as Prime Minister Julia Gillard seeks to shift attention from her office’s role in the Australia Day fiasco to jobs and the economy.

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• Tony Windsor says no to Australian gay marriage bill

  Federal Independent MP Tony Windsor says he won’t be supporting legislation to allow same-sex marriage when it comes before parliament this year.

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• Sea cucumbers to save Great Barrier Reef

  

  Tropical sea cucumbers and their faeces could save coral reefs from the harmful impacts of climate change, scientists have found.

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• Aboriginal Tent Embassy seeks “declaration of sovereignty” over Australia

  

  Aboriginal Tent Embassy seeks “”declaration of sovereignty” over Australia, with one activist demanding, “Respect us as a sovereign people or piss off out of our country.”

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• Gillard staffer fired over alerting protesters to Abbott

  A member of the prime minister’s staff has lost his job after passing on information that alerted Aboriginal Tent Embassy supporters to the nearby presence of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.

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• Gillard concern for Abbott in Australia Day protest praised

  

  News footage of the moment Julia Gillard was informed of the security threat posed by protesters, leading to her being whisked away with Tony Abbott by federal police, shows her arranging for the opposition leader’s safety.

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• Activists burn Australian flag in Canberra

  

  Protesters have set fire to an Australian flag at the entrance of Parliament House as they called for Aboriginal sovereignty over Australia.

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• Julia Gillard dragged away in Australia Day protest drama

  

  Julia Gillard had to be dragged away by her security detail after being mobbed by protesters from the Aboriginal tent embassy at an Australia Day function.

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