Australia

Aid organisation Oxfam is calling on newly-appointed foreign minister Kevin Rudd to push the issue of reducing world hunger when...

Jane Basden is a GP in Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains who decided on the spur of the moment to...

The Federal Government is again being pressured to investigate tax exemptions for churches and charities. A senate committee was established...

The creation of ethics classes in NSW schools is under threat after the Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell said he would...

Almost 50 per cent of adults in Australia don’t have a legally valid will. But taking the time to draw...

Lobby group Exit International made a pro-euthanasia ad that was going to be played on Channel Seven last night, but...

Independents Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon are drafting a bill this week to give journalists’ confidential sources more protection. And...

Greens leader Bob Brown has accused News Limited newspaper The Australian of trying to wreck the alliance between The Greens...

Poor crewmen on asylum seeker boats are being hit hard by new federal laws targeting people smugglers. The tougher legislation...

With the global financial crisis hitting parts of Europe the hardest, it seems only natural that immigration to Australia from...