Updated Tuesday, March 26, 2013 0:01 am TWN
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An Australian received a bravery award on Monday for grabbing a 3.7-meter (12-foot) great white shark by the tail as it mauled a snorkeler.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
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An aborted Labor party leadership coup has badly tainted the standing of the Australian prime minister's office with most voters also seeing Julia Gillard as a “lame duck” leader, a poll showed Sunday, six months ahead of a general election.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
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Three Australian government ministers quit their portfolios on Friday in the continuing fallout from a bungled leadership showdown that reinforces perceptions of a crisis in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's administration six months before national elections.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament on Thursday to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard faced down a leadership challenge Thursday, emerging victorious from a party vote after former leader Kevin Rudd made a last-minute decision not to run.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
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The founder of Sea Shepherd left the environmental group's fleet of anti-whaling ships before they docked in Australia on Wednesday, though the government says it has no reason to arrest him at the moment.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
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Authorities in Australia are searching for a truck driver who dumped more than two tons of dangerous asbestos waste on a road near two child-care centers.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
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The first Aboriginal to head a government in Australia took office on Thursday as chief minister of the Northern Territory, after staging a backroom coup.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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Australia's center-left Labor government unveiled a shake-up of media laws Tuesday, introducing a public interest test for mergers but stopping short of press regulation as feared by the industry.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
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Australia on Sunday said it had offered Indonesia a formal guarantee that drug trafficker Schapelle Corby would comply with parole in a letter supporting her release from prison.
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