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Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to have toned down his tough talk on the asylum-seeker issue after meeting the Indonesian president.

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Australia’s corporate regulator insists it carried out through investigations into corruption allegations linked to the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Australian tourists were amongst the passengers rescued from a London Duck Tours vessel on the River Thames after it burst into flames.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he wants to get Australia’s relationship with Indonesia right, but the opposition believes there’s a big problem.

A boat bound for Australia, carrying 120 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Indonesia, leaving 20 dead, mostly children.

For only the second time in the past six years, the Australian Navy intercepted a boat and handed the asylum seekers back to Indonesia.

The Australian government is yet to seek the release of activists who have been detained in a Russian prison in relation to protests over Arctic drilling, despite calls for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to personally intervene.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has issued a communications clampdown on his frontbench, ordering all ministers obtain the approval of his office prior to speaking to media.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has defended his government's first days in office, saying his ministers are "hard at work" but not rushing decisions.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his government's policy to turn back asylum seeker boats to Indonesia will respect the country's sovereignty.

ROYAL TOUR OF OZ | The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have applied for Prince George’s first passport in preparation for their 2014 trip to Australia and New Zealand.

Britain’s opposition leader says the campaign tactics used by John Howard’s former strategist won’t work in the UK because “we are better than that”.

Following London Fashion Week, English model and serial party-goer Cara Delevingne is crowned 'Fashion Royalty' on the cover of Vogue Australia.

TRAVEL | The magic of Morocco lies just under the surface, as TYSON YATES discovers on a round-trip 8-day Saharan adventure from Marrakesh.

State of Origin streaker Wati Holmwood has successfully appealed his three-month prison sentence at a Sydney court.

Australian Foreign minister Julie Bishop says the deaths of Ross Langdon and others in Kenya are a reminder that “we must do all we can to fight terrorism”.

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Prince Harry will make his first official visit to Australia in October to attend events marking the centenary of the first entry of the Royal Australian Navy’s Fleet into Sydney in 1913.

A crowd has gathered outside a London court where Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is scheduled to make a brief appearance over child sex offences.

An Australian architect who had lived and worked in the UK and his wife were among the victims of the attack on a Nairobi shopping centre.

Popular menswear brand Industrie is opening its first shop outside Australia. Located in Covent Garden, the fashion store will sell a range of modern and masculine clothes and accessories designed for every man.

Iconic Australasian themed pub Shepherd’s Bush Walkabout is set to call last drinks for the final time on 6 October, after the pub’s operator Intertain confirmed the property had been sold for an undisclosed sum.

Another community march is being planned to remember Melbourne woman Jill Meagher, who became the public face of Victoria’s parole system failures.

The Abbott government insists it will honour its election promise to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat despite Indonesian opposition to its controversial plan to turn back vessels.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has abolished the Climate Commission and begun work on getting rid of the Climate Change Authority, in what has been described as a black day in the fight against global warming in Australia.

Sydney radio station 2Day FM is seeking to prevent the media watchdog from finding it committed a criminal offence last year.

Tony Abbott sacked three department heads within minutes of being sworn in as prime minister but one of the nation's most influential public servants, Martin Parkinson, defied speculation and retained his job.

Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella has lost her Victorian seat of Indi to grassroots independent Cathy McGowan.

A plaque stolen from the Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park corner in London has been recovered by Metropolitan Police and will be restored in time for Remembrance Day on 11 November.

TNT Multimedia, publisher of TNT Magazine, has been put into administration.

Bill Shorten may have the majority support of the ALP caucus for the party's federal leadership but he's going to have a tough fight winning over NSW rank and file members.

Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten have begun their leadership pitch to Labor members voting in a historic ballot.

Far from the vibrant nightlight and lazy days of Lagos, ERIN SOMERVILLE experiences the true heart of Portugal with a Medieval Market in cobblestoned Obidos.

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POSTCARDS FROM AUSTRALIA | An inland detour takes us through a part of Australia we rarely see - with long sweeping valleys and row-upon-row of vineyards - as we drive from Maryborough to Toowoomba.

Dozens of special-edition London cabs have arrived in Fremantle, Perth to be trialled for use on Australian roads.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has tried to head off accusations the coalition government has gone backwards by not being able to appoint more than one woman to cabinet.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has announced his new cabinet and ministry line-up in Canberra, and has come under fire for including only one woman — Julie Bishop — on the team.

Australian man Tom Denniss has become the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot after running on average a marathon a day, every day, for 622 days. The 26,000 km charity run raised money for Oxfam.

Labor’s rank and file will help choose the party leader in Canberra with Anthony Albanese standing against Bill Shorten.

A British-Australian man, Gary Tweddle, who went missing in the Blue Mountains has been farewelled at a service in Sydney, with his father paying tribute to those who searched for him.

The grumpy-looking and rarely seen deep-sea blobfish, found off the coast of Australia, has been crowned the world’s ugliest animal in a competition to raise awareness of aesthetically challenged animals facing extinction.

An 80-year-old Australian tourist has had a miraculous escape after falling 30 meters off a cliff path in Cornwall before becoming entangled in brambles.

TRAVEL | As Ron Howard’s new Formula 1 film Rush hits UK cinemas, LARA BRUNT channels her inner Chris Hemsworth and takes a spin around the world’s most infamous racetrack - the Nürburgring in Germany.

The Liberal candidate dubbed the “Where’s Wally” of the 2013 Australian election, Jaymes Diaz, has made a surprise appearance on the ABC’s comedy sketch program The Hamster Decides.

A confusing name, a donkey vote and a complicated deal through the preference whisperer can help you become a senator no-one’s heard of.

The tightness of the contest in the Victorian seat of Indi between independent Cathy McGowan and sitting MP Sophie Mirabella has led Mirabella to exclude herself from the first Abbott ministry.

Former union boss Bill Shorten will stand for the Labor leadership but he could still face a challenge from Anthony Albanese.

A strategy to stop asylum seeker boat arrivals is at the top of Tony Abbott’s to-do list for next week after his ministry is sworn in.