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AUSTRALIA DAY | Kylie and Dannii Minogue have been embraced throughout the UK for their hugely successful singles and headline-hogging love lives, but now London is preparing to welcome the stars’ largely unknown third sister, as she brings her very own cabaret to town.

The Sunday session is an Aussie tradition worth adhering to at Sunday in the Apartment, where emerging artists take centre stage. For Australia Day 2014 a special Sunday in Australia House event will take place, including a number of special guests.

As the UK turns dark, cold, and wet, here are our top 10 tips to help you get through the winter months with a smile on your face, a tissue up your nose, and a stomach full of hearty British goodness.

It was the end of an era for Australians in London as the iconic Shepherd’s Bush Walkabout closed its doors for the last time on Sunday.

When you are travelling around Europe, you don't always have time to keep up-to-date with the most recent Aussie music. Luckily KIEL EGGING has taken the time to give Australian Times readers a run-down of the biggest Aussie tunes that they have missed so far this year.

This week we bring you a special Monarchy vs Republic feature, with opinion pieces offered from both sides of the debate. Brant Rippon of the Australian Monarchist League examines the nature of the modern monarchy in Australia.

Join in a unique conversation about Australian identity from the perspectives of Australians abroad with the Australian Republican Movement’s ‘Being Australia(n)’ Q&A event on Thursday 27 June.

The Britain-Australia Society and the Western Australian European Office will host a WA wine tasting event at the Australian High Commission on Thursday 13 June to celebrate the founding day of Western Australia.

Business networking may sounds like a dry and serious business, but Australians never do things by the book.

Anzac Day in London provides plenty of opportunities for Australians to gather and commemorate the sacrifice of Australian soldiers for the nation. Following a Dawn Service at Hyde Park Corner, there is a wreath-laying service at the Whitehall Cenotaph and a service at Westminster Abbey.

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | Facing a first wedding anniversary, our Honeymooning Nomad comes up with her own take on the traditional gift of paper.

EDINBURGH EXPAT | The ‘City of Literature’ tag is perhaps no more appropriate than when referring to the relationship between a city with infamously temperamental weather and those who have the ability to aptly describe it.

It is hard for an Aussie to live in the UK and not notice the pervasive influence of class, woven into the cultural fabric of English society. Whilst the idea of an Australian classless society may be an 'egalitarian myth' , it is, as CATHERINE BURRELL argues, an important part ...

POSTCARDS FROM JIMEOIN | Fair Dinkum mate. Jimeoin writes us a postcard from monsoonal Queensland ahead of his UK tour.

See this year’s Triple J Hottest 100 countdown full list. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s ‘Thrift Shop’ is the winner of the poll.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Every year the Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown provides the soundtrack to Australia Day celebrations around the country. You might be tuning in from the UK this year, but you can still make sure you catch all the action this Australia Day by streaming it live.

An Australian/New Zealand owned sliver of a café pumping out over 500 expertly made coffees a day. Serious coffee for serious coffee lovers.

The New Year is always a good time to reflect on the year that has passed. ALEX BRUCE-SMITH looks back on a year in London, from shopping to shandys in the sun.

MOVE TO AUSTRALIA | Overview of Australia: essential facts and statistics, history, standard of living and immigration policy.

MOVE TO AUSTRALIA | If you are planning to embark on a new life in Australia, there are a few practical tips that will help to make it a bit easier to enjoy your new home.

When dressed in a cardboard box depicting the controversial and divisive topic of asylum seekers, there’s bound to be some people that consider it offensive. SHANNON GILLIES even thought she may have gone a bit too far with her fancy dress costume, but that was until she read a story ...

New Australian film, Blame, centres around a high school music teacher, Bernard (Damian de Montemas), who is suddenly attacked in his home by five young mates who are keen on revenge following the suicide of their friend Alice (Saskia Hampele).

REVIEW | The name Paul Kelly is synonymous with Australian pub rock anthems. For this reason it felt strange to be sitting on a civilised church pew in Union Chapel, London, amongst the many others here to worship this Australian rock icon.

REVIEW | There is a certain irony for a London audience watching Our Country’s Good in 2012.

Get a free drink and sing your heart out at Walkabout Temple's One Night Stand on Thursday.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | We look at the Triple J Hottest 100 winners, The Wiggles and all the goss from the Big Day Out.

Triple J Hottest 100 | The full and complete list of this year's results from the world's largest radio listeners' favourite song poll, and modern Australia Day tradition.

VOTE NOW | In honour of Australia Day, we asked our readers via Facebook to name the songs that make an expat Aussie homesick. Here's the top ten. Now it's your job to choose the #1.

I looked at Facebook over breakfast and it was alive with talk of sun, sea, sand, steak, salads, sheilas, beer, BBQs, blokes, cricket and a day off. I pulled on my green and gold and tried to think warm thoughts as I struggled into my London winter coat.

Looking ahead to Australia Day, we preview and predict a few of the songs and artists likely to feature on Triple J's Hottest 100 list. Are we right?

RIGHT SAID ED | Apparently yesterday, the third Monday of January, was the unhappiest day of the year! But I just don't get the hysteria.

RIGHT SAID ED | And so you have safely negotiated another New Year's Eve! Well done and welcome Australian Times - 2012. What a year we have to look forward to.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | Grinderman to grind no more, the Annandale needs your love and voting for the Hottest 100 opens once again!

Life in London can be described as hectic at best. With a population of over seven million and everyone in a hurry to get somewhere, a laid back 21-year old Aussie student was definitely in for the shock of his life.

REVIEW | There were barely two hundred people rammed into the tiny KCLSU band room. The lighting and stage imagery left a lot to be desired, but this is the style of Gotye, he allows the most important thing do the entertaining, his music.

Winter is the hardest time of year here in the UK without doubt. No Christmas BBQs. No New Year’s beach parties. No Australia Day sunburn. And I have just realised it is only just around the corner.