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Public servants, private companies, individuals, kids and parents all heeded the National Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre’s ‘bat signal’ this week and joined their super forces in the fight against this debilitating disease.

John Howard's defence force chief, Admiral Chris Barrie, has slammed the Abbott government's handling of asylum seeker issues, labelling it ‘secretive, expensive, and unnecessary' while claiming it is damaging Australia's reputation.

Tourists in Australia spent more than AU$30 billion in the past year. Brits led the pack of international bookings and spenders, hot on the heels of the Royal tour.

Australians holding dual nationality cannot hold Federal public office. Has Tony Abbott ever formally renounced is UK citizenship?

Australian ultra-triathelete John Van Wisse is intercepted by UK border control while swimming the English Channel.

A Sydney neurosurgeon has been deported to Malaysia after a second incident where a drug and sex spree led to the death of a woman.

Startling evidence that British scientists secretly tested up to 21,830 dead young Australians, without the knowledge of their parents, for radiation contamination following nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s.

Londoners will have a chance to sample the cuisine of caterer Jackson Gilmour when they open their pop-up restaurant at Australia House in London to launch the ‘Restaurant Australia’ campaign promoting Aussie food and drink to the UK.

The Australian government says its defence forces are ready to act against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria if requested by the US but that conditions must be met.

Qantas confirms massive annual loss, totalling AUD$2.8 billion, as it scrambles to secure its future.

Australia Post refused to deliver mail to the residents of a Brisbane, all because of Brian the burly Boxer dog and his owner.

Please fold your lap trays, and continue using your electronic devices, as we prepare to land. Qantas and Virgin Australia allow passengers to keep their devices switched on from 'gate to gate'.

Hadrian’s Wall stretches 73 miles across northern England, and was once the northern most frontier of an empire which ruled a quarter of the world. I find out more about life up here with my very own Celt to guide.

Australia’s new anti-terrorism unit has picked up its first suspect, according to PM.

An Australian psychologist says Aussie kids are raised to be brats thanks to shoddy parenting.

Yorkshire’s temperamental weather might be a far cry from warm Australian beaches and long sunny days but it seems you’d have to do far worse to get the crowd from Down Under, under the weather in the UK.

Idyllically located on Lake Zugersee between its two more illustrious neighbours, Lucerne and Zurich, Zug has more to offer than people like me perhaps initially thought.

The so-called 'Royal hoax call' scandal, in which a British nurse committed suicide after being duped by Australian radio DJs, has reached the Australian High Court.

The Scottish vote for independence from the United Kingdom could result in the Union Jack changing. Does this mean the Australian flag would need to change as well?

Police have decided not to lay criminal charges against Labor leader Bill Shorten over a rape allegation dating back to 1986.

Full official statement from Bill Shorten about an investigation into rape claims against him that has now been closed.

Australian Federal Police are said to be investigating 'terror maps' found at a house in Pullenvale, Brisbane.

In the fourth fatal Australian crocodile attack this year, a fisherman was killed by a giant reptile in front of his wife.

Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison this week announced that most children in immigration detention camps who are under the age of ten, and their families, will be released into the Australian society by the end of this year.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has indicated that the federal government is willing to discuss some serious budget compromises with the cross-benchers.

Tony Abbott elicits criticism from Alex Salmond over his statement that ‘the world would not be helped by an independent Scotland’, ahead of next month's referendum.

More than four thousand Iraqi and Syrian refugees from war torn Iraq and Syria will be offered refugee status in Australia, confirms immigration minister Scott Morrison.

A very bad day at a Melbourne hospital when 200 of their (very much alive) patients were declared deceased.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced new laws that will see the termination of welfare benefits for any Australians posing a national security threat.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott acknowledged that Australia’s border security failed by letting another jihad suspect leave the country using his brother’s passport.

Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, Australia is opening its immigration gates to persecuted Iraqi nationals fearing for their lives.

"The overall outlook for the Great Barrier Reef is poor, has worsened since 2009 and is expected to further deteriorate,” says latest government report.

Australian air force joins international mission to deliver food and water to people fleeing Islamic State militants in Iraq. “We in Australia try to do what we can to help,” PM tells service personnel.

While Australians are limited from immigrating to the UK by European Union restrictions, UK nurses wanting to work in Australia say that they, in turn, are stuck in new Australian bureaucratic mud.

‘Unintended’ British visa regulations that have had a limiting effect on Australians looking for employment in Britain might soon be altered.

Class action lawsuit launched on behalf of Australian consumers to fight credit card late payment fees charged by financial institutions.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met with British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and the situation in the Ukraine.

Clive Palmer has commended Joe Hockey's leadership in managing the budget but remains unsympathetic to the government's plans.

Google trends show us who are interested in Australia and what makes them most curious about the land Down Under.

Police in northern Australia suspect a crocodile may have snatched a 22-year old man who went missing a week ago.

Boy with severed head image appears on Twitter account of Khaled Sharrouf, with the caption “That’s my boy!”

Australian Immigration and Border Protection offered a group of 157 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers a lifeboat to India.

Tourists in Northern Australia left in awe as a Croc is seen attacking a bull shark.

25 of the delegates attending the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne failed to board a plane back to their home countries, claiming asylum in the country which hosted them as conference guests.

VIDEO | Transperth puts their passengers to work to save the leg of a man who slipped and got caught between the train and the platform, demonstrating why you SHOULD ‘mind the gap’.

Australian neurologist Stephen Hicks wins the top award in the UK’s Google Impact Challenge with smart glasses for the blind and visually impaired.

“If you need to dispose of anything you shouldn't have, we suggest you flush it now”: Jetstar flight attendant

Investigators trying to retrieve evidence from the MH17 crash site have been forced to stop work as fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine.

Australian choreographer Wade Robson has detailed the sex acts he says Michael Jackson committed on him in court papers filed in Los Angeles.

There are reports that the supposed father of baby Gammy has a previous conviction and served time in jail.