China’s stellar economic growth story continues. Gross domestic product climbed 9,5% in the first quarter this year and industrial production was up 16,2% on the same quarter…

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is on course to win a fourth victory in the general election this Saturday. Most opinion polls indicate that the results will be close, but…

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, facing a general election on October 9, has been one of United States President George W Bush’s most reliable allies in the "war on…

Eighteen months ago Australia, along with the United States and the United Kingdom, was a frontline member of President George W Bush’s "Coalition of the Willing", and Australian…

The security of patrons at Australia’s thousands of bars and nightclubs — one of its major tourist drawcards –has been called into question after the death on January 19 of…

An Aboriginal activist is fighting to have the offensive word removed from the name of an Australian sport stand in a country where most white Australians regarded Aboriginals as…

The international media rarely descend on Australia — the last occasion was the 2000 Sydney Olympics — and for some Aboriginal Australians the Rugby World Cup has presented a…

Australia’s controversial policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers has come under renewed pressure, this time from the country’s leading judges. Australian Immigration…

Australian politicians are using President Thabo Mbeki’s stance to shore up their case for or against war. Many Australians, including political leaders, are impressed by Mbeki’s…