Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's rejection of Kevin Rudd's quest to lead the U.N. is a sorry reminder of the creeping U.S.-style partisanship of Australian politics.
Tokyo Disneyland is an odd place to make a political statement, but the theme park now hosts same-sex wedding ceremonies. When a lesbian couple tied the knot there at a commitment ceremony in its Cinderella Castle in 2012, what was dubbed Japan's first gay wedding ...
Australia's opposition Liberal-National coalition has widened its lead over the Labor government in an opinion poll, signaling leader Tony Abbott may replace Kevin Rudd as prime minister after the Sept. 7 election. Support for the coalition rose to 53 percent on a two-party preferred basis ...
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is on the brink of defeat in next month's national elections, with a poll indicating that his ruling Labor Party will lose seven of the eight most marginal electorates. An analysis of the seats, four of which are held by ...
Australia's opposition has regained the lead over Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government, with 52 percent of respondents in an opinion poll published Saturday saying they will support the coalition in the Sept. 7 national election. The ruling Labor Party had a 48 percent share of ...
A boat carrying 81 passengers that was stopped Saturday in waters off northwest Australia was the first to face the government's new policy of refusing entry to refugees and sending them to neighboring Papua New Guinea. The people will initially be sent to Christmas Island, ...
Even by the standards of a sports-mad country in which politics is a blood-sport, the events leading to the comeback of Kevin Rudd have been extraordinary.
Kevin Rudd beat Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a ballot for the Labor leadership as the ruling party seeks to revive its fortunes ahead of an election that opinion polls show it will lose in a landslide. Rudd won by 57 votes to 45 ...
