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The Liberal candidate dubbed the “Where’s Wally” of the 2013 Australian election, Jaymes Diaz, has made a surprise appearance on the ABC’s comedy sketch program The Hamster Decides.

A confusing name, a donkey vote and a complicated deal through the preference whisperer can help you become a senator no-one’s heard of.

The tightness of the contest in the Victorian seat of Indi between independent Cathy McGowan and sitting MP Sophie Mirabella has led Mirabella to exclude herself from the first Abbott ministry.

Former union boss Bill Shorten will stand for the Labor leadership but he could still face a challenge from Anthony Albanese.

A strategy to stop asylum seeker boat arrivals is at the top of Tony Abbott’s to-do list for next week after his ministry is sworn in.

PNG police and villagers are hunting bandits who attacked an Australian tourist trekking group on a track in the country’s north.

Tony Abbott’s government has been accused of pettiness after incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop axed a plum posting as Australia's next consul-general in New York for former Labor premier Steve Bracks.

ELECTION13 | Australian politicians have called for reforms to the electoral system after Saturday's election saw several candidates from fringe parties elected as the result of complex preference arrangements.

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard will give candid interviews with author Dr Anne Summers in front of live audiences in Sydney and Melbourne, with both shows selling out.

A British inquest into the death of a nurse who took her own life after receiving a prank call from two Australian radio DJs has been delayed again.

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On a weekend where the rest of England decided to escape to Europe, ALEX IVETT dares to do Devon instead, and experiences first-hand what a weekend in the English countryside can really offer.

Australia House has traditionally attracted one of the largest turnouts for Australians voting overseas, and in this year’s federal election it was no different.

Australia’s incoming prime minister Tony Abbott has spent the first working day of his government getting things in order, as Labor looks for a leader.

An inquiry into child sex allegations involving the Australian Catholic Church has heard it was considered possible to cure pedophile priests with counselling.

ELECTION13 | Queensland entrepreneur Clive Palmer is expected to win the Sunshine Coast electorate of Farifax, with several other Palmer United Party members highly likely to take positions in parliament.

Julian Assange believes his political party has performed well in the Senate race despite failing to get anyone elected.

Shorten indicates he would not run for the Labor leadership if Anthony Albanese wants the top job, in a bid to avoid more disunity and party destabilisation.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has quit the leadership of the Labor party after Saturday’s election defeat.

Tony Abbott has received a rapturous reception as he stepped up to the podium to make his acceptance speech in the Australian federal election.

A smiling Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has conceded defeat in the Australian federal election but says Labor fought the good fight.

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With one day left for London Aussies to cast their votes at Australia House, an exit poll conducted by Australian Times shows a swing towards the coalition in the 2013 election, despite Labor leading on a two party preferred basis.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As voters prepare to go to the polls, Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition looks set to defeat Kevin Rudd’s Labor government.

Don MacLeod, the Australian man who saved Kiwi Ryan Blair from a six-metre crocodile that had stalked him for a fortnight on Western Australia's West Governor Island, has plenty of similar tales.

Young Australians are being urged to vote in the Australian federal election. Prepolling facilities are open for Australian expats in London at Australia House.

The Coalition have backflipped on plans to implement an online internet filter across Australia, with opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull stating the original policy released on Thursday advocating a UK-style ‘opt-out’ system was incorrect and had been ‘poorly worded’.

ELECTION13 | Federal candidates in Treasurer Chris Bowen's electorate of McMahon have been linked to both corrupt detective Roger Rogerson and political assassin Phuong Ngo as the election campaign turns negative.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As the federal election looms, we look at the top five quotes that have shaped the political careers of the two leaders who will go head to head in a bid to lead the nation: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his challenger Tony Abbott.

A team from Northern Ireland is travelling to Australia to meet with people who suffered abuse in UK institutions before being sent to Australia as children.

ELECTION13 | Australian political leaders have made a video pitch to contestants in this year's Big Brother Australia house in the lead-up to Saturday's federal election.

Australians and Poms who have family in both the UK and Western Australia are being invited to take part in a major new memories project which links the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Western Australia in Perth.

THE widow of a soldier, Corporal James Dusby, who died whilst on a training exercise in the Brecon Beacons in Wales has been offered care by London Legacy

ELECTION13 | Liberal candidate for Lindsay Fiona Scott has blamed traffic congestion in western Sydney on an influx of asylum seekers under the Labor government.

TRAVEL WRITER WINNER | To reach the sacred mountain of Sri Pada in Sri Lanka HELEN MOAT climbs a winding staircase leading to a temple in the sky, and makes a valuable discovery at the top.

Southern Cross Austereo will produced phone records suggesting that they attempted to gain permission to air the royal hoax phone call at the inquest into Jacintha Saldanha's death next week.

Australian police have reached a body in the Blue Mountains which they believe to be that of missing British-Australian man Gary Tweddle. The body was found 2km from where the 23-year-old was last seen alive seven weeks ago.

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There has been a reported sighting of a body in bushland in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, suspected to be that of missing British-born Australian man Gary Tweddle.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | With the 7 September election looming, Australian expats in the UK are being urged to cast their vote at prepolling facilities at Australia House.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has seized on Tony Abbott's baddies versus baddies comment on Syria to question his credentials to represent Australia internationally.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Labor entered the election campaign as the underdog and remains so with less than a week until polling day.

Social network giant Twitter is opening its first corporate offices in Sydney this week, as it seeks to grow its pool of users in Australia.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Make your vote count in the 2013 Federal Election by ensuring you correctly complete ballot papers for the House of Representatives and the Senate.

TRAVEL WRITER ENTRY | Being on the back of a camel at early morning in the Sahara in Morocco belongs to a once-in-a-lifetime experience, as SABRINA EHRLE discovers. Just remember to pack something warm.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Heading into the final week of the election campaign, Labor and the coalition have kept the focus on the economy and spending priorities.

A world-first study has used statistics from Australia and New Zealand to measure the success of fertility treatments. It shows IVF treatments are successful in one in two women aged under 35.

Officers from Operation Yewtree have charged Australian entertainer Rolf Harris with nine counts of indecent assault and four counts of producing indecent images of children.

Target Australia has released a statement defending brand ambassador Gok Wan after a series of homophobic complaints regarding his appearance in a recent advertisement.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Comedian Adam Hills says he’s genuinely distressed by the current state of Australian politics and what that means for the country’s image overseas.