A how-to guide for Australians living in London and the UK on how to enrol, register as an overseas voter or take your name off the election roll. Information on how to vote in the UK for the 2013 Australian federal election, in person at Australia House or by postal...
Read moreDetailsThe father of missing British-Australian man Gary Tweddle has returned to the UK as the search for his son in the Blue Mountains approaches a month.
Read moreDetailsDeputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has claimed that having a beer with embattled MP Craig Thomson was "no big deal", with senior political figures accusing him of bad judgement.
Read moreDetailsPapua New Guinea wasn't seeking economic gain when it agreed to open a processing centre for asylum seekers trying to get into Australia, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says.
Read moreDetailsPOSTCARDS FROM AUSTRALIA | This week in Haylee's adventures around Australia, driving from top to tail, she stops in at a little slice of paradise - Pebbly Beach, NSW.
Read moreDetailsThree of the major banks have said they'll cut interest rates after the Reserve Bank of Australia dropped the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a new low of 2.5 per cent.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Footage of federal Liberal candidate for the NSW swing seat of Greenway Jaymes Diaz bumbling his way through a Network Ten interview during his campaign trail has gone viral across the internet.
Read moreDetailsThe Queensland parliament’s ethics chief MP Peter Dowling has apologised for sexting his mistress and has stood aside from his role, pending an investigation.
Read moreDetailsAustralian entertainer Rolf Harris has been rearrested and bailed again by UK police following further allegations of historical sex abuse.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The major parties have urged Australians in the UK to make their vote count in the 7 September federal election, with overseas voters likely to play a key role in deciding tightly contested seats.
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Read moreDetailsINTERVIEW | Australian Sex Party founder Fiona Patten talks to Australian Times about civil liberties, censorship and the conservative nature of Australian politics
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | With the announcement of the 7 September election, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have made a first pitch to voters.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | With the Australian federal election announced for 7 September 2013, we look at the major parties position on key issues for voters.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Voters should back the Liberal National candidate if they don’t want to see another hung parliament, coalition Leader Tony Abbott says.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has launched an appeal to Muslim voters in western Sydney, claiming that he is a "sworn enemy" of those that attempt to divide the nation on the basis of race or culture.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Rupert Murdoch has made his anti-Labor stance clear and his News Corp papers are free to say what they will.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Labor and the coalition are finally in a real election campaign, having spent the past weeks honing their messages for the hustings, writes Paul Osborne AAP Senior Political Writer.
Read moreDetailsEmbattled entertainer Rolf Harris has made a rare public appearance at Hampshire's Wickham Festival on the eve of answering bail again over historical sex abuse allegations.
Read moreDetailsFormer AFL superstar Ben Cousins has reportedly been assaulted in a Perth park by a suspected motorcycle gang member.
Read moreDetailsAUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Australians will go to the polls on 7 September, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced.
Read moreDetailsBalancing the books: The Australian government announced it will return the budget to a “modest” surplus by 2016 with the help of new taxes and cuts to foreign aid.
Read moreDetailsFugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has claimed “the law is winning” after being granted a year’s asylum by Russia, accompanied by WikiLeaks legal adviser Sarah Harrison.
Read moreDetailsA Singapore-based mining company will be forced to pay $150,000 after being convicted of the damage and desecration of an Aboriginal sacred site. It is the first such conviction in Australian history.
Read moreDetailsThe third solider to die following a SAS selection test in mid-Wales region of Brecon Beacons has been named as Corporal James Dunsby, a reservist who served with the Australian Army.
Read moreDetailsA new federal tobacco excise is set to hit Australian smokers’ hip-pockets to the tune of $1 per cigarette by 2016.
Read moreDetailsDIANA MOUSINA, CommBank Economist, reveals the findings of a Commonwealth Bank study into the spending habits of Australians on health and fitness.
Read moreDetailsLess than a week since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his PNG solution the first asylum seekers have arrived on Manus Island for processing.
Read moreDetailsThe Australian government is expected to announce a levy on the banks on Friday to insure them against a financial crisis, but there are fears that the cost will be passed on to consumers.
Read moreDetailsA prominent former US diplomat has criticised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to relocate asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea, and has referred to the Australian defence budget as "paltry".
Read moreDetailsCorruption findings by the ICAC against two former NSW Labor ministers, Eddie Obeid and Ian MacDonald, have been a gift to the pre-election campaign of Tony Abbott.
Read moreDetailsWA Coroner Alastair Hope says all 102 lives lost in the Siev 358 asylum seeker boat tragedy could have been saved if authorities had responded sooner.
Read moreDetailsPrime Minister Kevin Rudd has called in a team of election campaign heavyweights from the US to lead a social media onslaught against the Coalition. The team includes British social media expert Matthew McGregor, labelled Obama's 'digital attack dog' during the 2012 US campaign.
Read moreDetailsVodafone Australia has announced plans to cap their global roaming fees for customers travelling to the US, UK and New Zealand to $5 per day.
Read moreDetailsFormer Labor MP Eddie Obeid, his son Moses, and former mines minister Ian Macdonald could face criminal charges after the ICAC found they acted corruptly.
Read moreDetailsWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has described Bradley Manning as “the most important journalistic source that the world has ever seen”.
Read moreDetailsThe Nauru “tent city” solution proposed by the Coalition has been blighted by claims that the visit to the island by Shadow Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and a News Corp journalist were sponsored by a private company who may profit from the policy.
Read moreDetailsOPINION | Following calls in Australia by the Royal Australasia College of Physicians for smacking of kids to be made illegal, POPPY DAMON argues in defence of anti-physical punishment laws.
Read moreDetailsNSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has rejected calls from Australian medical experts to make the smacking of children illegal.
Read moreDetailsPrime Minister Kevin Rudd's recently revealed reforms to asylum seeker policy would send gay refugees to Papua New Guinea despite the country's strict laws against homosexuality.
Read moreDetailsNSW’s chief scientist has handed down her initial report into CSG, saying the industry faces “significant challenges” going forward.
Read moreDetailsAustralians can no longer blame the Heathrow Injection after they pack on the pounds, as a new study from the United Nations says we are some of the fattest people in the developed world, with higher rates of obesity than the UK.
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Read moreDetailsIt may not be the crown jewels just yet, but the future King George has been bestowed another honour, with Australia Post announcing a commemorative stamp in his honour.
Read moreDetailsThe Australian-New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee have released guidelines designed to lessen the risk of shootings in places of "mass gatherings".
Read moreDetailsWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared via video link in Melbourne’s Fitzroy library to announce the Australian WikiLeaks Party’s plan to run for the Senate.
Read moreDetailsAn Australian scientist has pioneered a new vaccine for cancer, created from a patient's own tumor. Tests of the treatment on dogs has so far yielded positive results, paving the way for human trials.
Read moreDetailsAustralian election strategist Lynton Crosby has faced renewed calls to prove there is no conflict of interest between his role as advisor to the Conservative Party, and the lobbying role of his company CTF Partners for Philip Morris International.
Read moreDetailsThe economy and tackling corruption in the NSW ALP are on Kevin Rudd’s plate this week, as he gears up for the election.
Read moreDetailsThe recently announced ‘PNG solution’ has led many Australian expats to consider the question of how we want our country to be viewed by the rest of the world. Here, TIMOTHY MAJOR asks Kevin Rudd: What do we stand for as a nation?
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