Reuters - Growing speculation that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard could be dumped by her party before the end of the year forced senior ministers to rally behind her Friday after a disastrous start to 2012.
2012-02-03 18:24
2012-02-02 09:04
James Cameron plans move to New Zealand farm (AP)
AP - Hollywood director James Cameron is planning to move onto a New Zealand farm.
2012-02-02 09:04
Police arrest 6 at Occupy Sydney protest site (AP)
AP - Police have arrested six demonstrators while pulling down tents and posters at the Occupy Sydney protest site in Australia's largest city.
2012-02-02 09:04
Aussie claim about comrade's Afghan death rejected (AP)
AP - A military inquiry on Thursday rejected an Australian soldier's allegations that a comrade died unnecessarily during a gunbattle in Afghanistan because the U.S.-led coalition provided inadequate air support.
2012-02-02 09:04
Australia's iron lady on road to world-scale wealth - report (Reuters)
Reuters - Australian Gina Rinehart could soon become the world's wealthiest woman after amassing an $18 billion fortune from mining and media investments, Forbes magazine says in its latest list of the wealthiest people in Australia.
2012-01-31 23:44
Aussie mom clueless about US murder victim's ashes (AP)
AP - The Australian mother of a 10-year-old disabled girl who was murdered by her American stepmother in North Carolina said Tuesday she has no idea what became of her daughter's ashes since the child's father brought them to Australia.
2012-01-30 14:22
Australia reviews timetable for buying 12 F-35s (AP)
AP - Australia is reviewing its timetable for buying 12 of the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighters between 2015 and 2017 after the Unites States announced a rethink of its own purchase schedule for the futuristic warplanes.
2012-01-30 14:22
Australia's navy told to be more visible near resource projects (Reuters)
Reuters - Defense planners urged Australia's military on Monday to maintain a stronger presence in the country's north and northwest to guard the booming resource industry and be better placed to respond to challenges from Asia and the Indian Ocean.
2012-01-28 12:23
Information from Australian PM's aide led to clash (AP)
AP - A clash between protesters and Australian police that forced bodyguards to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event appears to have been set off by information released by one of Gillard's own aides.
2012-01-27 19:44
Australian gov't, activists trade blame for clash (AP)
AP - Authorities and indigenous-rights protesters blamed each other Friday for a heated clash in which bodyguards had to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event marking the anniversary of British colonization.
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