TONY Abbott believes it is “far from certain” Australia will become a republic in his lifetime, after Labor signalled a new push on the issue. Julia Gillard today declared she wants Australia to become a republic when the Queen dies, and plans to lead a national debate on the form the republic would take. The Prime Minister said today that despite being... 

Australian experts say 3 locally discovered "superbug" cases might be just the "tip of the iceberg" Indian doctors warned earlier this year about the threat from a new multi-drug resistant “superbug” — months before a British study that New Delhi has condemned for scaremongering. A team of researchers from a leading private hospital... 

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Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith delivers his speech during the opening of the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction in Jakarta Australia says it will impose new sanctions on Iran, joining the United States, Canada, European Union, and United Nations. Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday that the sanctions, aimed at persuading... 

Mel Gibson is poised to quit the US after selling his mansion near New York. The Lethal Weapon star, who faces allegations of violence from his Russian former girlfriend, sold the mock Tudor property, known as Old Mill Farm, for £16 million – £10 million less than the asking price. Gibson has also put his Malibu home, Lavender Hill Farm, on the market for £10 million,... 

Widespread cloud and persistent rainfall has kept temperatures down right across Queensland. Longreach, in the Central West, received persistent rain from Tuesday evening, dropping the temperatures by about four degrees. The temperature then barely moved yesterday, reaching a maximum of 11 degrees; 12 degrees below the long-term average and the coldest July day in 44... 

When Julia Gillard was first elected to parliament in l998, she was quick to challenge the idea that immigrants were a problem for Australia. In her maiden speech, the future prime minister – a Welsh migrant herself – challenged the anti-Asian line of Pauline Hanson, the nationalist Right-winger whose views enjoyed widespread support at the time. Ms Gillard... 

Will the internet be "jailed" in Australia as it is in China and Iran? Let's hope not... The future of the great Australian firewall is beginning to look decidedly shaky, as electoral calculations and widespread condemnation from politicians and industry alike begin to take their toll. That’s the analysis from Greens communications spokesman Scott... 

There are now just 470,000 Aborigines out of a population of 22 million Australia reinstated race laws in the remote Northern Territory region Tuesday after suspending them for three years to pursue a controversial crime crackdown in poor Aboriginal townships. Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin called the suspension, enacted under conservative former prime minister... 

Professor Frank Fenner has warned that the human race can not survive As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction. And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years. He has claimed that... 

No Zimbabwean team has toured Australia since 2003 Australia could renew cricketing ties with the genocidal state of Zimbabwe which killed countless farmers, next year starting with a series between the two countries’ A teams, the African country’s Sports Minister David Coltart has revealed. The Zimbabwe A team will likely tour Australia in mid-2011, the first... 

Australians need to get outraged over Female Genital Mutilation legalization! Female Genital Mutilation can kill women and their babies!! Australian doctors may soon perform genital mutilations on baby girls in a bid to curb a dangerous rise in backyard surgeries, according to a report. The Royal Australian New Zealand College of Obstetricians is considering allowing... 

New Zealand has become the fourth country to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughtering, authorities said Sunday, after Iceland, Norway, and Sweden took similar measures in the past. Under the newly instated Animal Welfare Commercial Slaughter Code, announced by Agriculture Minister David Carter, commercially killed animals would have to be stunned before slaughter, making... 

KEVIN Rudd has deplored Israel's use of violence in interdicting the Gaza flotilla and called on Jerusalem to lift its blockade. Barely a week after it announced the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat following the misuse of Australian passports, the Rudd government was yesterday again at odds with Israel. The renewed tension came after it emerged that Israeli commandos... 

Melbourne: Experts in Australia have expressed their fears that a full-scale alien invasion of the Northern Territory is about to take place. Though astronomers and police say the flares seen across a 360km-long stretch of the Top End coast were probably caused by a meteor shower. But highly qualified UFO-ologists said they believed the bright lights were space ships...