Australia's parliament is likely to get larger as the government canvasses possibilities for expanding the number of MPs and ...

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government Wednesday rushed legislation through Parliament that could place behind bars some migrants who were freed after the High Court ruled their indefinite ...

Australia has not hosted a visit from a U.S. President since Barack Obama attended the G20 Leader's Summit in Brisbane in 2014.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A wait of 45 years ended when a group of Olympians who defied pressure to boycott the 1980 Moscow Games were recognized in the Australian Parliament on Wednesday for their ...

An Australian senator yelled “This is not your land, you are not my king, you are not our king” at King Charles III during a royal visit Monday. Lidia Thorpe, an independent Aboriginal senator, ...

Australian state lawmaker and convicted rapist, Gareth Ward, quit his seat in parliament on Friday moments before a vote brought forward by his former colleagues to eject him was set to take place.

Australia’s Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a motion calling for the release of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen. The vote came ahead of a critical ...

The CEO of Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus apologised to Australia's parliament for an emergency number outage that ...

We will make our own decisions about our own policy, and we will stand up for what we believe in, for conversations around ...

MELBOURNE, AustraliaMELBOURNE, Australia — A Filipino immigrant who helped a small Outback town keep its volunteer fire brigade was celebrated in the Australian Parliament on Thursday during a special ...

Stephen Rue apologised for September’s emergency line outage but said a change of leader ‘is not what Optus or our customers ...

The vote ends a long and at times bitter debate. — -- Marriage equality is now a reality in Australia. Its Parliament voted on Thursday to allow same-sex marriage in the Commonwealth country. The ...