Tag: Tony Abbott

Protesters have warned Australians would be targeted unless Indonesia receives an apology over the phone tapping scandal.

Australia has been accused of betraying Indonesia amid an outbreak in nationalist rhetoric in the wake of fresh spying allegations.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to comment on allegations Australian spies targeted the mobile phone of Indonesia's president and his confidants.

INTERVIEW | Two years in the making, John Pilger's controversial new film Utopia reveals a shocking national secret behind the postcard image of the "lucky country". As it premiers in the UK, the award winning documentary filmmaker talks to Australian Times about the devastating inequalities suffered by the Aboriginal community.

An unlikely alliance between the coalition and the Australian Greens could see a vote in the Senate on the carbon tax repeal laws before Christmas.

Kevin Rudd keeps a low profile on his last day in Parliament.

Tony Abbott has praised former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as an extraordinary person who will continue to serve Australia.

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken to twitter to bid farewell and has been both praised and condemned on social media networks.

Former PM Kevin Rudd quits parliament saying he bears no malice.

The Australian government has pledged more than $10 million to assist rescue efforts in the Philippines after super Typhoon Haiyan hit the nation.

The British supermodel and the Australian Prime Minister do not appear to have a lot in common. One is about to pose nude for the 60th anniversary of Playboy. The other is Tony Abbott. But the unlikely pair share similar mind-sets when it comes to talking, or rather not talking, ...

INTERVIEW | Fiona Foley is raising awareness about the mistreatment, and plight of indigenous people in Australia through her controversial artworks, including Vexed a video presentation exploring the breakdown of traditional Aboriginal marriages, currently on display at EcoCentrix; Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts.

There is mounting pressure for Prime Minister Tony Abbott to call Vladimir Putin and obtain the release of an Australian Greenpeace activist being detained in a Russian prison.

Plans for a sculpture of Tony Abbott’s head, to be displayed with other Prime Minister’s heads, are being finalised.

People smugglers in Indonesia have formed a “super syndicate” as Australia’s new resettlement policy sees demand for their services from asylum seekers plummet.

One man has died and hundreds of homes have been feared lost as firefighters labour to control some of the worst blazes NSW has ever seen.

Australian victims of the terror attacks in New York, London, and Bali are finally set to be compensated.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will persevere with controversial measures aimed at stopping the flow of asylum seeker boats to Australia

Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to have toned down his tough talk on the asylum-seeker issue after meeting the Indonesian president.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he wants to get Australia’s relationship with Indonesia right, but the opposition believes there’s a big problem.

A boat bound for Australia, carrying 120 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Indonesia, leaving 20 dead, mostly children.

For only the second time in the past six years, the Australian Navy intercepted a boat and handed the asylum seekers back to Indonesia.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has issued a communications clampdown on his frontbench, ordering all ministers obtain the approval of his office prior to speaking to media.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has defended his government's first days in office, saying his ministers are "hard at work" but not rushing decisions.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his government's policy to turn back asylum seeker boats to Indonesia will respect the country's sovereignty.

Prince Harry will make his first official visit to Australia in October to attend events marking the centenary of the first entry of the Royal Australian Navy’s Fleet into Sydney in 1913.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has abolished the Climate Commission and begun work on getting rid of the Climate Change Authority, in what has been described as a black day in the fight against global warming in Australia.

Tony Abbott sacked three department heads within minutes of being sworn in as prime minister but one of the nation's most influential public servants, Martin Parkinson, defied speculation and retained his job.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has tried to head off accusations the coalition government has gone backwards by not being able to appoint more than one woman to cabinet.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has announced his new cabinet and ministry line-up in Canberra, and has come under fire for including only one woman — Julie Bishop — on the team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Famous newsreader, Ron Burgandy, aka Anchorman, has weighed in on the Australian federal election, recording a short video of support.

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’.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has announced $31.6 billion of promised budget cuts, but he remains elusive on the timing of a promised budget surplus.

OPINION | This election, make sure you cast your vote on the basis of a party’s policies, not their personalities, argues CHLOE WESTLEY.