A member of the Australian Parliament has dismissed the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission as a "toothless ...

Talks on forming a new three-party government in Austria have collapsed as the smallest of the prospective coalition partners pulled the plug on the negotiations.

A missing surfer is believed to have died in a shark attack in southern Australia. Authorities made the announcement on Friday. Lance Appleby, 28, was seen by eyewitnesses being attacked late on ...

If Labor loses just three seats, it will lose majority government, but the Coalition must win 21 seats for an outright win.

A small liberal party on Friday unexpectedly quit coalition talks on forming a new Austrian government, throwing into ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers remarks during a National Caucus holiday event in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Dec. 17, ...

A tech firm hacked into by Chinese state-linked intruders who breached the US Treasury Department has a contract with ...

Moving Australia Day away from January 26 could be the only way to resolve the day’s tensions, two historians have warned, as the country continues to splinter over the meaning of the date.

Former Labor immigration and workplace minister Chris Evans, Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner, is aiming to use ...

Australian lawmakers recently passed a law — the first of its kind in the world — banning children under age 16 from common ...

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Lisa Singh is the CEO of the Australia-India Institute and the first woman of Indian descent to be elected to the Australian parliament, and is a Cricket Australia multicultural ambassador. On-field ...