The real lesson here is that governments during the ongoing global economic crisis have consistently displayed a poor ability to project their revenue stream, even in as short a time span as one year. This leads to the transcending economic lesson of Australia's current fiscal mess.

Australia officially made Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg its first honorary citizen on Monday in recognition of the thousands of Jews he saved from...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pinned her government's re-election hopes on a new welfare program for the disabled, proposing...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard emphasized loyalty over experience in new Cabinet selections named Monday after a bungled leadersh...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament to the thousands of unwed mothers w...

CANBERRA, Australia — Another Australian government minister quit Friday in the fallout from a bungled leadership ballot that reinforced percept...

Australian politicians rarely make a splash in America. But Prime Minister Julia Gillard managed to do just that, thanks to a 15-minute YouTube video that went viral last October.

It's still spelled m-i-s-o-g-y-n-y. But now it has a new meaning, thanks to a speech that redefined political shaming. The Associated Press reports...

Australia's female Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave an "epic speech on sexism" on Tuesday, when she traded heated blows in Parliament with opposition...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard's father died Saturday while the Australian leader was in Vladivostok for an APEC summit. "He has...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 toward the $4 billion a year cost of running ...

BRUSSELS -- In Brussels, the more things change, the more they stay the same. On Tuesday, the day before NATO's defense and foreign ministers met a...

SYDNEY -- Australia expects to pull most of its troops out of Afghanistan nearly a year earlier than planned, the prime minister announced Tuesday, sa...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard enjoys joking with President Barack Obama that she faces more prejudices as a childless...

While the tabloid media has savored the opportunity to skewer Kevin Rudd, his failed attempt to lead the government has consequences beyond his own political ambitions. On the foreign policy front, the Gillard Coalition will likely now reorient the country's foreign policy.

CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Saturday that she is "incredibly confident" of leading her Labor Party to victory in ele...