Tag: United Kingdom

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.

New savings report has Australia ranked number 1 in the world while the UK sits at 11th and is on a downward slope.

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.

Aussie volunteers needed to help with our project on Commonwealth visas.

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

Australia’s first morning rave attracted more than 370 dancers who felt like popping into a party rave at 6:30 am. Yes that’s right, AM, as in after midnight, like in the morning (early, early in the morning).

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.

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.

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

A recent report by the United Nations ‘Trends in International Migrant Stock’ confirmed that of the 5 million Brits not living in their native UK 1.3 million have opted to take root in Australia.

You think you know passion? You haven’t met the European football fans.

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.

With fresh rumours that terrorists have come up with new ways to pass explosive devices through customs, airports in the USA and UK have started taking extra precautionary measures. However, Australia will not be following suit yet.

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.

Determining whether or not someone is a player online can, in some cases, be easier than if you only were in contact with them in the real world.

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.

Linguistic experts believe Britons are turning up their noses at typical Australian slang like barbies, tinnies and sunnies.

Honeymooning Nomad | Of course my friends and family top the list, but there's something else you don't really find in the UK that this Australian misses dearly and I can't wait wrap my laughing gear around it.

Defence lawyer Simon Ray claims the prosecution in Rolf Harris's child sex trial set out "with vigour and enthusiasm" to destroy the artist's reputation.

As an extensive search in the Western Australian bushland ends positively for a British national who went 'walk about' during a music festival police have started a search for the second missing Brit.

An Australian law requiring all tobacco products to be packaged in plain packaging - to discourage the purchase of tobacco products - has resulted in legal battles while an increase in sales of tobacco products has been recorded.

The UK jury considering the case against veteran Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has been told to disregard his career and focus on the evidence.

After four long weeks of evidence in Rolf Harris's child sex abuse trial, the jury has been told "we are moving towards you making your decisions".

The Queen's new coach is decorated with gold leaf and jewels and displays an intricate amount of detail reflecting more than 1000 years of British history... and it's made in Australia.

British nationals can marry Australians in Australia but their union will not be recognised by Australian law, furthering the debate about Australian marriage reform.