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.
Read moreDetailsEnvironment 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.
Read moreDetailsSydney radio station 2Day FM is seeking to prevent the media watchdog from finding it committed a criminal offence last year.
Read moreDetailsTony 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.
Read moreDetailsLiberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella has lost her Victorian seat of Indi to grassroots independent Cathy McGowan.
Read moreDetailsA 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.
Read moreDetailsTNT Multimedia, publisher of TNT Magazine, has been put into administration.
Read moreDetailsBill 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.
Read moreDetailsAnthony Albanese and Bill Shorten have begun their leadership pitch to Labor members voting in a historic ballot.
Read moreDetailsFar 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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Read moreDetailsPOSTCARDS 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.
Read moreDetailsDozens of special-edition London cabs have arrived in Fremantle, Perth to be trialled for use on Australian roads.
Read moreDetailsPrime 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.
Read moreDetailsPrime 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.
Read moreDetailsAustralian 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.
Read moreDetailsLabor’s rank and file will help choose the party leader in Canberra with Anthony Albanese standing against Bill Shorten.
Read moreDetailsA 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.
Read moreDetailsThe 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.
Read moreDetailsAn 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.
Read moreDetailsTRAVEL | 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.
Read moreDetailsThe 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.
Read moreDetailsA confusing name, a donkey vote and a complicated deal through the preference whisperer can help you become a senator no-one’s heard of.
Read moreDetailsThe 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.
Read moreDetailsFormer union boss Bill Shorten will stand for the Labor leadership but he could still face a challenge from Anthony Albanese.
Read moreDetailsA 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.
Read moreDetailsPNG police and villagers are hunting bandits who attacked an Australian tourist trekking group on a track in the country’s north.
Read moreDetailsTony Abbott’s government has been accused of pettiness after incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop axed a plum posting as Australia's next consul-general in New York for former Labor premier Steve Bracks.
Read moreDetailsELECTION13 | Australian politicians have called for reforms to the electoral system after Saturday's election saw several candidates from fringe parties elected as the result of complex preference arrangements.
Read moreDetailsFormer Australian prime minister Julia Gillard will give candid interviews with author Dr Anne Summers in front of live audiences in Sydney and Melbourne, with both shows selling out.
Read moreDetailsA British inquest into the death of a nurse who took her own life after receiving a prank call from two Australian radio DJs has been delayed again.
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Read moreDetailsOn a weekend where the rest of England decided to escape to Europe, ALEX IVETT dares to do Devon instead, and experiences first-hand what a weekend in the English countryside can really offer.
Read moreDetailsAustralia House has traditionally attracted one of the largest turnouts for Australians voting overseas, and in this year’s federal election it was no different.
Read moreDetailsAustralia’s incoming prime minister Tony Abbott has spent the first working day of his government getting things in order, as Labor looks for a leader.
Read moreDetailsAn inquiry into child sex allegations involving the Australian Catholic Church has heard it was considered possible to cure pedophile priests with counselling.
Read moreDetailsELECTION13 | Queensland entrepreneur Clive Palmer is expected to win the Sunshine Coast electorate of Farifax, with several other Palmer United Party members highly likely to take positions in parliament.
Read moreDetailsJulian Assange believes his political party has performed well in the Senate race despite failing to get anyone elected.
Read moreDetailsShorten indicates he would not run for the Labor leadership if Anthony Albanese wants the top job, in a bid to avoid more disunity and party destabilisation.
Read moreDetailsPrime Minister Kevin Rudd has quit the leadership of the Labor party after Saturday’s election defeat.
Read moreDetailsTony Abbott has received a rapturous reception as he stepped up to the podium to make his acceptance speech in the Australian federal election.
Read moreDetailsA smiling Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has conceded defeat in the Australian federal election but says Labor fought the good fight.
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Read moreDetailsWith one day left for London Aussies to cast their votes at Australia House, an exit poll conducted by Australian Times shows a swing towards the coalition in the 2013 election, despite Labor leading on a two party preferred basis.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As voters prepare to go to the polls, Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition looks set to defeat Kevin Rudd’s Labor government.
Read moreDetailsDon MacLeod, the Australian man who saved Kiwi Ryan Blair from a six-metre crocodile that had stalked him for a fortnight on Western Australia's West Governor Island, has plenty of similar tales.
Read moreDetailsYoung Australians are being urged to vote in the Australian federal election. Prepolling facilities are open for Australian expats in London at Australia House.
Read moreDetailsThe Coalition have backflipped on plans to implement an online internet filter across Australia, with opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull stating the original policy released on Thursday advocating a UK-style ‘opt-out’ system was incorrect and had been ‘poorly worded’.
Read moreDetailsELECTION13 | Federal candidates in Treasurer Chris Bowen's electorate of McMahon have been linked to both corrupt detective Roger Rogerson and political assassin Phuong Ngo as the election campaign turns negative.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As the federal election looms, we look at the top five quotes that have shaped the political careers of the two leaders who will go head to head in a bid to lead the nation: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his challenger Tony Abbott.
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