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• Intervention marks 6 years, as community questions impact

  

  Indigenous leaders have marked the sixth anniversary of the controversial 2007 government intervention in the Northern Territory by questioning the psychological repercussions of regulating the day-to-day management of Aboriginal communities.

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• Justice done in Bayley sentence, says Meagher family

  

  Justice has been done with the life sentence handed to Adrian Ernest Bayley for the rape and murder of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher, her family says.

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• Not in the bag, oppn says of 457 visa crackdown

  

  Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison says the government’s crackdown on 457 visas is not a done deal in parliament.

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• Anti-sexism group Destroy The Joint launch Facebook cleavage campaign

  

  Australian women respond to a Destroy The Joint Facebook call to action, #convoyofcleavage, after columnist Grace Collier criticises Prime Minister Julia Gillard for showing too much cleavage in parliament.

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• Puffin Magic Foundation hosts charity dinner for spinal injuries

  

  The Puffin Magic Foundation is hosting an annual summer cocktail charity dinner on 11 June in London to fundraise money to support an Australian quadriplegic and raise awareness of spinal injuries.

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• Labor showdown left for another day

  

  Former prime minister Bob Hawke has ruled out intervening to smooth tensions between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and former leader Kevin Rudd.

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• Being Australian in the UK | What does it mean to you?

  

  Join in a unique conversation about Australian identity from the perspectives of Australians abroad with the Australian Republican Movement’s ‘Being Australia(n)’ Q&A event on Thursday 27 June.

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• Western Australia Day celebrated with the states finest wine

  

  The Western Australia’s European Office celebrated the founding day of Western Australia by hosting a WA wine tasting event at the Australian High Commission last week.

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• Male voters desert Gillard in latest poll

  

  Recent polling suggests that Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s attempt to reignite a political gender war has backfired, with the embattled Labor leader losing significant support amongst male voters after claiming that Tony Abbott would marginalise women and change abortion rights if elected to government.

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• Australian Times weekly newspaper | 18 June 2013

  

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

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• Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce visits the United Kingdom

  

  The governor-general of Australia, Quentin Bryce, visited with the Queen, young Australian entrepreneurs in East London, and addressed an Australian Business networking lunch in a visit to the UK last week.

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• Labor leadership momentum slows

  

  A leadership showdown between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her detractors could be put off until after Labor’s landmark schools funding legislation passes federal parliament.

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• A year on, Assange still a divisive issue

  

  Australian Julian Assange continues to polarise opinion a year after he sought political asylum, as a recent story concerning his right to sunlight proves. Assange met with Ecuador foreign minister Ricardo Patino at the embassy this morning.

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• Sattler has ‘no regrets’ over Gillard chat

  

  Perth shock jock Howard Sattler will pursue legal action against Fairfax radio after he was sacked for asking prime minister Julia Gillard whether her partner is gay.

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• Aussie shock jock suspended after asking PM ‘Is Tim gay?’

  

  Western Australian shock jock Howard Sattler has been suspended from the airwaves after asking PM Julia Gillard if her partner is gay during an interview.

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• Queensland Day celebrated at Australia House

  

  Ken Smith, Agent General for Queensland and Trade and Investment Commissioner, Europe, shares his experience of Queensland Day in London with Australian Times

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• New sex scandal rocks Australian Defence Force

  

  Defence has launched a massive investigation into more than 100 army and other personnel over the distribution of offensive images of women.

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• Can the Labor party claim to be ‘the voice for Australian women’?

  

  Feminists fear a massive Labor defeat in September will set back their cause for up to a decade.

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• Asbestos found on Sydney Harbour Bridge

  

  Australian workers doing plumbing repair work on the Sydney Harbour Bridge have walked off the job after they said two apprentices were exposed to asbestos.

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• Gillard asks MPs to door-stop Gonski reforms at school gates

  

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hit back at the Newman government’s ban on federal Education Minister Peter Garrett visiting schools in the state by ordering all Labor MPs to stand outside school gates and push the Gonski reforms to parents that are dropping off and collecting their children.

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