Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says as many as 48 asylum seekers may have been killed when their boat sank last week off Christmas Island.

The Copenhagen draft accord is as hollow as Kevin Rudd’s attempts to affect climate change, Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says. The Copenhagen deal says countries will tackle climate change and hope to limit global warming to two degrees...

A Malaysian Islamic court has upheld the caning sentence for a Muslim woman convicted of drinking beer at a hotel, local media reports have said. If the punishment is carried out, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old mother of two, will become the...

Bundanoon, located in the picturesque Southern Highlands of New South Wales and boasts a population of just 2,000, voted by a huge majority in favour of the move with a show of hands at a public meeting. Huw Kingston, a local businessman and organiser,...

An El Nino weather pattern this year appears almost certain, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednesday in a revised forecast, raising the prospect of drought in Australia and a even weaker monsoon in India. The odds for El Nino, an...

Better Place, which has already established electric car programs in Israel and Denmark, has chosen Australia as its prototype for rolling out electric vehicle infrastructure in large countries.

An Australian soldier who shot himself in the head while on duty in East Timor had plans to kill himself with a cadet gun while at high school, a military inquiry has been told. Queenslander Private Ashley Baker was found lying dead in a pool of blood...