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Immigration and Border control is on high alert as authorities fear the deadly Ebola virus could spread to Australia.

"The Australian government is not just gagging the press, it is blindfolding the public," says Julian Assange as WikiLeaks publishes secret suppression order issued by Victorian court.

London lunch-timers enjoyed a game of beach volleyball on a court of golden Australian sand.

Strict new conditions for Australians collecting unemployment benefits, including making 40 job applications per month.

Australian airline Qantas will not follow suite and change their flight path to avoid Iraq as Emmirates have done.

In a case of ‘who wore it best’, four Miss Word Australia finalists took to the swimsuit segment of the competition wearing the exact same outfit.

Strengthening UK and US economies deliver boost to Aussie tourism.

While the AIDS 2014 conference kicked off in Melbourne this week, breaking news is that an Australian company developed a condom that will offer real protection against unwanted pregnancies and STD’s including the HIV virus.

Australian writer Richard Flanagan has been added to Man Booker long list for his book ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’.

With the AIDS 2014 conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia this week we look at some of the shocking truths about HIV and some glimmers of hope.

Australian senator Jacqui Lambie told a radio show she would only date a man with “heaps of cash and they’ve got to have a package between their legs,” adding that she would prefer if he didn’t speak.

UK citizens living in countries like Australia, New Zealand and the USA are adjusting well to life in their adoptive countries, according to a new study.

Duke of Cambridge describes explorer who put ‘Australia’ on the map as a man of action, strength and determination.

Australia is pushing for full international access to the rebel-controlled MH17 crash site in Ukraine while sending in specialists for the investigation.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the bodies of the MH17 victims, including those from Australia, will be transferred to the Netherlands as soon as possible.

Tribute: As flags around the nation fly at half-mast we honour the victims of flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine, who called Australia home.

As questions are asked about why shot down flight MH17 was allowed to fly over Ukraine's war torn region, Qantas says they altered their flight paths over the area months ago.

Scientific community reels at reports that HIV researchers and activists headed for AIDS conference in Australia were on Malaysia Airlines flight shot-down over Ukraine.

Australian prime minister says perpetrators of MH17 disaster in Ukraine must be brought to justice and orders flags to be flown at half-mast.

A survey by the Kirby Institute of the University of New South Wales has revealed that the number of recorded HIV cases in Australia is at an all-time high.

A great white shark that was seen thrashing about the waves near a Perth beach is believed to have met its death by choking on his large lunch.

Authorities confirm Australians on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 downed over Ukraine.

The Liberal Party’s own polling company’s survey finds that Australians are much more supportive of same-sex couples enjoying the same marital rights as heterosexual unions.

Perth has taken to erasing all visible signs commemorating disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris.

As Nauru confirms that Angelina Jolie, actress and UN delegate, has received an invitation to visit asylum seekers on the island, Australia's immigration minister Scott Morrison denies concerns over her proposed trip.

Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Stevens has resumed attempts to talk the Aussie dollar down.

A petition spearheaded by Paula Orbea is after the heads behind Wicked Campers who hire some of Australia’s most controversial camper vans.

Queenslanders have been so diligent in feeding excess electricity from their home solar panels back into the grid that their electricity price remained at $0.00 for a few days last week.

Few things are more romantic and drenched in old world charm than a train journey. Australia offers some of the most scenic tourist orientated railway journeys in some of the world's most charming trains.

Islamic militant who allegedly employed Facebook to recruit support for Syrian and Iraqi conflict has been taken in to custody in the Philippines and will be deported to Australia.

A statement made by District Court judge Gary Neilson that sex between siblings is gaining acceptance has been met with severe criticism.

Prince William will reveal the statue of Matthew Flinders who was the first to circumnavigate the great southern land and map the entire coast of Australia.

You know how crocs are - take food from their mouth and they take your hand instead, as this Australia zookeeer found out.

British drug mule apprehended at Sydney airport for being in possession of bottles of MDMA faces court.

A video showing shocking racial slurs filmed on a Sydney train this month and uploaded to YouTube has had over 395,000 views prompting more than 1,300 comments. Unfortunately it is not an isolated incident in Australia.

The father of a 3-year-old Sri Lankan girl has begged with immigration control’s Scott Morrison for information about the 'missing' boat of asylum seekers on which his daughter is believed to be.

Chairman of UK’s Committee on Climate Change lambasts government’s carbon tax repeal as “reckless and deeply retrograde”.

A report compiled by the United Nations drops jaws as it reveals that Commonwealth countries top the world for cocaine and ecstasy use.

British presenter Vanessa Feltz claims Rolf Harris groped her live on TV, while Irish singer Linda Nolan claims the disgraced entertainer assaulted her backstage.

A group of asylum seekers being held on an Australian vessel at sea will not be returned to their native Sri Lanka without 72 hours' notice.

Tony Abbott has used a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rally behind the trading giant takes on a stronger presence in the Asia-Pacific.

A boat carrying 41 asylum seekers was escorted back to Sri Lanka after it was intercepted by Australian border control, infuriating human rights activists who fear for the refugees’ safety in their home country.

New confidence for jihad as another Australian joins their ranks and their new “caliphate” prompts two notorious Australian Jihadist to issue threats to Australian troops via Twitter.

Tony Abbott’s chief indigenous advisor has called the PM's reference to Australia being "unsettled" before British colonisation as "silly while Nova Peris has branded them as "highly offensive".

The federal government will spend $300 million so Australian warships are better protected against the threat of anti-ship missiles.

A landmark report looking at the state of the world's tropics predicts Australia's tropical zone will expand by about 200 kilometres every 25 years.

Fraudsters stole the identity of Australia’s military head to scam unsuspecting women out of money through cyber romances.

Amnesty International says Australian man Pham Trung Dung, who has been sentenced to death in Vietnam, may be given an unknown cocktail of drugs.

Rolf Harris will likely be jailed when he is sentenced on Friday. Meanwhile, further allegations against the disgraced entertainer come to light as his honours are purged.

An asylum-seeker detained at the Manus Island refugee camp is suing the Australian government and its outsourced security company after a riot in February left the man with severe head trauma.