Latest Australians in the UK

• Trenton Oldfield bailed in UK but banned from Olympic torch route

  

  The Australian who disrupted the Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been given strict bail conditions. Trenton Oldfield, 35, caused the race on 7 April to be stopped for half an hour by swimming in front of the rowing crews on the Thames.

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• Australia House denies role in Assange lawyer travel drama

  

  The Australian lawyer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wants the federal government to find out why London airport staff told her she was on a watch list needing special approval to return home.

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• Save Australian animals from extinction: Professor Flannery

  

  In an event organised by Australian Business, Professor Tim Flannery urged Australians to help stop the decline of Australia’s unique species.

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• Australians urged to vote in London Mayoral elections

  

  No doubt you will have heard that the current Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is in an intense battle with political rival Ken Livingstone. The fight is over who will be the next London Mayor.

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• AussieMite lands in the UK

  

  A new Australian player has landed on UK shelves and it’s here to disrupt a taste duopoly that spans the entire world.

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• Fenton is now Trenton: Aussie protester boat race video goes viral

  

  Fenton is now Trenton: thanks to some clever editing, Aussie Trenton Oldfield’s Oxford-Cambridge boat race protest has turned into a YouTube hit.

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• Aussies face British airport Easter gridlock

  

  International passengers arriving in the UK over Easter could face gridlocked security queues, due to a shortage of staff to carry out passport checks, a British newspaper reports.

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• Keeping up with Aussie sporting royalty (Mark Schwarzer) in London

  

  Expat Australians in London have been treated to a taste of Australian sporting royalty. Members and guests of Australian Business were invited to celebrate a night of Aussie sporting excellence at The Churchill hotel and meet Socceroo star Mark Schwarzer.

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• Aussie couple in UK wanted for style makeover

  

  You could be in with a chance of getting top styling tips and the opportunity to get a new wardrobe worth thousands!

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• Glamour-ous Jo Elvin talks success in London

  

  In an exclusive interview with our Australian Times reporter BIANCA SOLDANI, Jo Elvin gives young Aussies the “how to” on making it big in the UK, London success and everything Glamour.

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• Julian Assange wants Australian Senate seat

  

  Calls grow for the Australian government to intervene in the Julian Assange ‘extradition saga’ after the WikiLeaks founder announced plans to run for the Australian Senate from the UK.

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• UK case dashes hopes of Australian nuclear veterans

  

  A group of Australian veterans of British nuclear tests appear to have had their hopes of compensation dashed.

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• “Get off the internet”: Liz Koops’ advice for Aussie youths

  

  Winner of the 2012 Qantas Australian Woman of the Year in the UK Award, Liz Koops told Australian Times that if young Aussies want to get ahead in London, they need to pull the plug on Facebook and learn the value of hard work.

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• The Aussie peace protester of London

  

  Peace campaigner Barbara Tucker has spent almost 50 straight nights without any sleeping equipment in London’s Parliament Square. Cold, persecuted but defiant she told REBEKKA HODGES her remarkable story.

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• Liz Koops is the 2012 Australian Woman of the Year in the UK

  

  Qantas, Australian Business and Australian Times are delighted to announce Liz Koops as winner of the 2012 Qantas Australian Woman of the Year in the UK Award.

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• Overwhelming support for Aussie Woman of the Year in the UK Award

  

  London is looking forward to celebrating outstanding Australian women on International Women’s Day this week.

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• Killing newborns equivalent to abortion?

  

  A furore has erupted over an article by Australian philosophers in the British Medical Journal justifying ‘after-birth abortion’.

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• “Not guilty” – Australian woman cleared of London prostitution charge

  

  Online escort services organiser, Larissa Miesnieks, today cleared of charges of controlling prostitution for profit.

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• Elton John heralds “Jesus-like” Australian activist

  

  Australian human rights activist Peter Tatchell has been described as “Jesus-like” in an interview by Elton John and partner David Furnish.

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• Australian woman on money laundering charge in London

  

  A Sydney woman is standing trial in a London court charged with laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars, the alleged profits of a high-class online prostitution operation.

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