Tag: UK Australian News

British migrants to Australia are loving the Aussie life, according to a new survey.

British political party UKIP says Australia's skills and points system for visa applications makes sense for the UK.

The UK might be Australia's largest wine export market, but it experts say Aussie vinyards increasingly need to compete with the premium European makers to maintain the success.

In a row that has sparked criticism from UK and Australian mental health experts, an exhibition at the Perth Royal Show risked being placed in isolation.

Even if it probably won't make it to the barbie, the Poms seem to know that if you want good quality meat you need to look out for the Australian flag on the packaging of your cut of beef.

An Australian judge has labelled a struggling Brit, who smuggled drugs into Australia, "stupid" - for lack of a technical term.

British adventurer sets out to cross Australia on an elliptical bike.

Taxpayers have been billed for Education Minister Christopher Pyne and his wife's trip to London and Rome.

Aussie technology start-ups are turning to Britain for capital and new markets due to lack of incentive at home.

"The notion that if Scotland leaves the union that we should possibly have to change our flag, it shows the absurdity of our flag," says Ausflag boss.

The London Ambulance Service is actively recruiting paramedics from Australia, taking advantage of a pay dispute raging on in Victoria.

The inquest into the death of British nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who committed suicide after she was duped in an Australian prank call involving the Duchess of Cambridge, concluded with the radio station offering their sympathy and promising to set up a trust fund for the dead woman's family.

After Britain upgraded its terror alert to severe earlier this week, Australians are waiting to see if the Federal Government will follow suite.

British minister Hugo Swire identifies five key aspects of a strong British and Australian partnership which would be beneficial to both countries.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Strengthening UK and US economies deliver boost to Aussie tourism.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A woman claims she was working at a party for Michael Parkinson in 2005 when Rolf Harris groped her in front of his wife Alwen.

Rolf Harris has been handed 12 unanimous guilty verdicts following in his trial over indecently assaulting four girls in Britain between 1968 and 1986.

Jurors in the Rolf Harris trial are continuing their deliberations for an eighth day as the entertainer waits in court for the verdicts.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) proposes that cigarettes sales should be permanently banned to those born in the 2000’s while the British Medical Association (BMA) passed the motion this week.

A week after first retiring to consider its verdict, the jury in Rolf Harris's child sex abuse trial has come back to the judge with questions.

A British national, only known as Natalie, told reporters of her terrifying ordeal as she was driven into the Outback by a mysterious unnamed Australian and ‘left for dead’ in the same place where the Wolf Creek horror movie was filmed.

The jury in the UK trial of Rolf Harris is set to return for a fourth day of deliberations.

Jihadi recruitment video features a British national and another man believed to be a radical Australian.

Julian Assange used the second anniversary of his entering the Ecuador's embassy in London to attack both the US and Australian governments.

The Rolf Harris jury has been told not to give undue weight to a Channel 7 make-up artist's claim that the entertainer was known as "the octopus".

A poll conducted by the Lowy Institute claims that Australia and the UK are no longer best mates. While Brits are still on our Christmas card lists we are actually chumming up with the Yanks.

Westminster Abbey in London will soon be the permanent home of a kangaroo engraved stone commemorating Arthur Phillip.

While the Abbott government struggles to get support for a GP co-payment, nurses in the UK will debate whether Britain should introduce such a charge.