Australia

Conservative leader Tony Abbott was elected Australia's new Prime Minister on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. In his victory speech, he alluded to the revered Forgotten People speech by Robert Menzies ...

National coalition remains well ahead in national polls as the Australian electorate prepares to vote Saturday, Sept. 7, ...

A funeral was held in his native Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday for Chris Lane, 22, who was shot ...

An Australian man is feared dead after he was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in a river ...

A boat carrying an estimated 105 people has capsized off of Christmas Island, a small island northwest of ...

A Virgin Australia plane reversed into a Jetstar aircraft on Saturday morning at the Melbourne Airport, causing up ...

Five businesses and a house were damaged by a fire in Coober Pedy's main street in Australia on ...

The Manus Island refugee detention center in Papau New Guinea, where refugees are processed for Australia, is the ...

Australia stuck grotesque images of what can happen when people smoke for a long time--including a bottom lip ...

U.S. officials are working to extract four unarmed bombs from Australia's Great Barrier Reef after U.S. Marine planes ...

Leanne Rowe, a Tasmanian women, got in a serious car accident eight years ago, and found herself lying ...

Giant pink slugs: The slugs, which are up to 20 centimeters long, eat other creatures.

Melbourne viewers were moved by the story of two Chinese citizen journalists who fight to report the truth ...

Victorian Federal Senator John Madigan is planning to introduce legislation to the Australian Parliament that addresses the practice ...

School principals and teachers remain divided over the NAPLAN, as this year’s national literacy and numeracy skills tests ...

Dead for 40 minutes: Colin Fielder, 39, was saved by the new CPR machine, AutoPulse, which has had ...

Since May 1, Australian families have been able to find out how their children's education and care services ...

The Federal Government has approved a new source of revenue for farmers in arid and semi-arid areas of ...

Nicolas Kristof's gripping story is told in the documentary, Reporter, which screened at the sixth annual Human Rights ...

A spokesperson from the Australian Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said that the Government is ...

Fresh seafood paired with bright flavours and an understated modern vibe make celebrity chef Rick Stein's restaurant one ...

A lawmaker in a state of Australia has moved to criminalize the receipt of trafficked organs, a development ...