Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard attempted Thursday to thwart a perceived challenge to her leadership of the Labor Party from former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by announcing that she will put the matter to a vote of Labor members of Parliament on Monday morning.
In announcing his resignation as Foreign Minister Wednesday, Kevin Rudd referred to the "soap opera" underway in Australian politics.
Australia will follow the European Union's lead in imposing sanctions on Iran's oil imports, Foreign Secretary Kevin Rudd said Tuesday in London, amid international concern over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
A panel of Australian citizens is expected to set the tone Thursday for a planned constitutional referendum to better recognize the indigenous population that inhabited the vast continent long before Europeans settled there.
Jamie Rubin, former U.S. Asst. Secretary of State, weighs in on how the U.S. is reacting to the death of Kim Jong-il.
U.S. President Barack Obama met Friday with his Indonesian counterpart in Bali as he prepares to conclude an eight-day trip to the Asia-Pacific region.
CNN's Paula Hancocks discusses President Obama's announcement that the U.S. Secretary of State will visit Myanmar.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched her two-day visit to Beijing on Tuesday, hoping to balance Australia's strong economic ties to China with international pressure to speak out against China's human rights record as the country tightens its grip on activists, dissidents and religious freedom.
Britain's Prince William is to visit Australia and New Zealand following the recent natural disasters in both countries, the Prince of Wales' official website confirmed Wednesday.
Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard tours flood ravaged areas in Queensland.
The graphic footage of the wooden boat carrying up to 100 Iranian, Iraqi and Kurdish asylum seekers as it wrecked last week on the cliffs of Christmas Island has been seen around the world.
In January, CNN's Atika Shubert spoke to an asylum seeker stranded off Indonesia's coast, trying to reach Australia.
As news of the much-awaited release of Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi reverberated throughout the world, activists and world leaders were seizing the opportunity to make a case for democracy and human rights in this besieged nation.
Pres. Obama and the Dalai Lama react to the release of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in Myanmar.
CNN's Dan Rivers reports on the uncertain outcome of Australia's parliamentary elections.
CNN's Anna Coren reports on the candidates and issues in Australia's hotly contested race for prime minister.
Australians go to the polls on August 21, 2010, and will choose between the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition to form a new government.
New Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, seeking a mandate from voters, said Saturday that a national election would be held August 21.
Julia Gillard becomes Australia's first female prime minister. ABC's Hayden Cooper reports.
Julia Gillard has become Australia's first female prime minister after the ruling Labor Party removed former PM Kevin Rudd. CNN's Stan Grant provided a background on the 48-year-old lawyer.
President Barack Obama is welcoming the new Australian Prime Minister to the club of world leaders.
A dizzying political drama began unfolding Thursday as the Australian Labor Party met at Parliament House in Canberra to decide the fate of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Critics decry Australia's new tax on mining industry profits, but for some it wasn't enough.
A Category 3 cyclone made landfall in Australia early Sunday before weakening as it moved inland.
Seventy-five Australian soldiers killed in the World War I battle of Fromelles have been identified, the first of about 250 whose remains were discovered at the site in France more than a year ago.
Australia rescued 32 people seeking asylum this week after spotting them floating on boats off the country's northwest coast.
British child migrants forced into farm labor seek apology from the government. ITN's David Harrison reports.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized on behalf of the UK government Wednesday over a controversial child migration policy which saw thousands of children separated from their families and sent to Australia and other Commonwealth countries.
India's foreign minister has cautioned his Australian counterpart that the relations between the two countries could be strained unless Australia tackles the continuing attacks on Indian students studying there.
A weekend killing in Australia has prompted the Indian government to issue an advisory for its college students studying in that country.
After nearly two years in office, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, remains committed to keeping Australia at the forefront of global affairs.
The Australian government plans to reintroduce its emission trading scheme to the parliament for a third time in February after a hostile Senate voted down the legislation on Wednesday.
Australia's main opposition Liberal party appointed a climate change skeptic as its leader on Tuesday in a move that all but kills plans by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to have an emissions trading scheme passed into law ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit.
Eighteen people were rescued -- but as many as 21 others were missing -- after a boat sank late Sunday in remote seas off Australia's Cocos Islands, according to Australian Customs and Border Protection Service officials.
A plane carrying 13 people -- including nine passengers from Australia -- went missing on its way from Port Moresby to Kokoda in Papua New Guinea, the Australia Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Australia reacts to the arrest of mining executive Stern Who. AuBC's Gregg Jennett reports
A top Australian government official met with Chinese authorities Saturday to discuss the arrest on spy charges of an Australian mining executive.
Polar explorer Eric Philips blogs from the "Arctic Sunrise" during a three-month expedition to chart the impact of climate change.
I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
Australia's Aboriginal people are at greater risk from the H1N1 virus, the country's health minister has warned.
Anjali Thakur is living in fear in India. She is a mother afraid for her son. "We are all having sleepless nights," Thakur says.
Australia's prime minister Friday slammed those engaged in human trafficking after an explosion aboard a boat carrying Afghan refugees killed three people and injured more than 40 others near Ashmore Reef, off Australia's northwest coast.
In the same week in late February that the fourth season of Australia's A-League reached its climax with the showpiece Grand Final between the Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United, Football Federation Australia moved offices. The common timing of the two events is not entirely coincidental nor insignificant.
Australian authorities have declared several coastal areas near Brisbane disaster zones after a massive oil spill earlier this week, according to the Queensland government.
An massive oil spill off the Queensland coast isn't the only worry for officials. Nine Network's Peter Harvey reports.
Church bells rang throughout Australia on Sunday as the country remembered the victims of this month's devastating fires -- and firefighters braced themselves for the possibility of more blazes.
Winds whipping across southeastern Australia's countryside continued to fan deadly brushfires Wednesday, spreading flames through rural towns and ravaging scores of homes.
Investigators in Australia believe some of the deadly wildfires ravaging dry southeastern bushland may have been set, a conclusion prompting Australia's prime minister to call such acts "mass murder."
Customs officials in Australia have cried fowl after searching a airline traveler -- and allegedly finding two live pigeons stuffed in his tights.
Two men found floating in a giant cooler off the Australian coast say they want to stay in Australia and don't want to go home, immigration officials said Friday.
If there was a most wanted list for climate change culprits, coal-fired power stations would be number one.
Australia declined a request from the Bush administration to resettle detainees held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, the Australian Associated Press agency (AAP) reported Saturday.
Australia is considering a request from the Bush administration to resettle detainees from Guantanamo Bay, though it is unlikely to accept, the prime minister's office said Friday.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday that his government will guarantee all deposits in the country's banks and financial institutions for the next three years.
Australian animal protection activists repeated their calls Tuesday for an end to the long-distance transport of livestock after 400 sheep died in a wreck.
Former Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett, now Australia's environment minister, races to the rescue of the Southern Cassowary, a creature that does a fair job of protecting itself
Pope Benedict XVI recalled the natural beauty he observed during his 20-hour flight to Sydney, saying he felt "a profound sense of awe," and denounced "insatiable consumption" as a threat to the world's environment.
Pope Benedict XVI lands in Sydney for World Youth Day celebrations. Seven Network's Chris Reason reports.
Australian forces have completed combat operations in Iraq, ending a five-year commitment to the war.
Shiites gather in Baghdad to protest plans for a security agreement with the U.S.
Australians are voting in a federal election on November 24, in what many analysts predict will be a tight race.
Standing together at APEC
Police tightened security Sunday as senior officials from Pacific Rim nations began meetings to prepare for a summit of regional leaders that will tackle trade and global warming.
An Indonesian passenger jet crash landed and burst into flames on Wednesday killing 23 people trapped inside. A further 117 people escaped, clambering through burning wreckage to safety, witnesses and officials said.
Reports on the number of dead are varying widely after a jet with 140 people onboard burst into flames upon landing at Yogyakarta airport in central Java Wednesday.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday said Washington has a realistic view of recent steps in North Korea's nuclear weapons program, and also expressed concern about China's military buildup.
Australia's conservative Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday that victory for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and his party in next year's presidential election would be a boon for terrorists.
Australian troops have arrived in the capital of East Timor, after weeks of clashes between security forces and former soldiers in this troubled nation have left people on edge.
Australia has agreed to sell uranium to China for power generation as part of what Australian Prime Minister John Howard called a "remarkable transformation" of bilateral ties during the past decade.
Australia's government is hoping to avoid escalating a diplomatic spat between Canberra and Jakarta over the granting of temporary visas to asylum seekers from the Indonesian province of Papua.
Torrential rain is hampering recovery efforts in northeastern Australia in the wake of Cyclone Larry, with power and water supplies still not restored in the hardest-hit town of Innisfail and much of the surrounding region.
The head of an Australian inquiry into an Iraqi wheat bribery scandal has rejected suggestions by U.S. senators that the hearing lacks independence.
A Chinese democracy organizer in Sydney says fugitive diplomat Chen Yonglin is still in fear of his life, despite reassurances by China's ambassador in Australia.
A suspicious package delivered to Australia's parliament building in the national capital Canberra triggered the week's second terrorism scare.
Indonesia's embassy in Australia has been closed after receiving a suspicious package Wednesday that contained what Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said was a biological agent.
Accused Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been found guilty by an Indonesian court of importing marijuana into Bali.
Iraqi religious and tribal leaders could hold the key to securing the release of an Australian man kidnapped by militants in Iraq, the Australian government said Wednesday.
The Australian Government has asked the United Nations to help secure the release of an Australian man kidnapped in Iraq.
Negotiations to secure a free-trade agreement between Australia and Malaysia have begun in Canberra as the two countries mark a new step in their often troubled relationship.
Australia's newly re-elected government has pledged to boost its anti-terror capabilities, strengthen links with its regional neighbors and continue to reform the country's booming economy.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has downplayed an early revival of a defense pact with Indonesia, preferring instead to focus on what he calls the "huge achievement" of a peaceful presidential election in Australia's northern neighbor.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard once described his political fortunes as "Lazarus with a triple bypass".
A re-elected Howard government would establish a "spy school" in Australia to help train counter-terror intelligence officers from around the region.
A political row has broken out in Australia over election campaign suggestions that Australia would consider a "pre-emptive strike" against terrorist operations in neighboring countries.
Australia will not be intimidated, Prime Minister John Howard said, after a blast killed six people outside the gates of the nation's embassy in Jakarta.
A terror group linked to al Qaeda has purportedly taken responsibility for Thursday's car bombing in Jakarta which killed at least nine people and injured more than 180.
A terror suspect deported to France last year was planning an attack "of great size" against a nuclear reactor or U.S. military base in Australia, newspaper reports have said.
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