The Strategic Review of the Student Visa Program, conducted by former Olympics Minister Michael Knight on behalf of the Commonwealth Government was released Thursday by Ministers Evans, drawing mixed reactions.
The US state of Georgia executed Troy Davis on Wednesday despite high opposition and an international outcry due to considerable doubts about his guilt over the 1991 murder conviction.
The United States and its allies South Korea and Japan will boycott six-party talks in Beijing this week on North Korean denuclearization, reports the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.'s CEO, stood up to U.S senators Wednesday to defend his company against allegations that it skews search results in favor of its own online services.
Half the fleet of trains servicing the Melbourne railway network are travelling with defective passenger doors, according to an assessment report issued on Monday by Transport Safety Victoria.
Up to $40,000 more of retirement funds was promised on Wednesday to Australian retirees under a proposed upgrade to the country's superannuation scheme. The means a 30-year-old full-time worker who currently earns about $68,000 yearly would receive $150,000 upon retirement.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott challenged on Thursday Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to resign because of her inability to protect the country's borders.
The World Health Organization confirmed the outbreak of the polio virus in China, a first since 1999, has caused one death and nine others hospitalized.
A day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded Australia's growth forecast over global recession concerns, a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) official acknowledged on Wednesday that the country could be affected by the U.S. economic slowdown.
A New Jersey mayor said he will not allow Ecuador President Rafael Correa to attend a high school event in his city in the face of an uproar from Cuban exiles who regard the leftist leader as an "enemy of the United States."
The Australian dollar has fallen overnight as pessimism once again pervaded throughout the financial markets. The AUD is back down near parity this morning and looking vulnerable to another move lower.
A federal judge in Virginia, USA has dismissed a lawsuit seeking $282.5 million in damages from Sudan for allegedly supporting terrorists in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.
The Tasmanian Lower House has this afternoon passed a motion of support for full marriage equality in Australia, with 13 voting in favour and nine against.
Independent movement GetUp has released legal opinion that argues the “Malaysia Soultion” and other offshore processing options would be invalid even as the Gillard government makes further proposals to amend the Migration Act.
The princess of pop declared that it would be "cool" if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge could attend one of her upcoming UK shows.
To show sincere intentions that North Korea is willing to resume talks on its nuclear, Prime Minister Kim Jong-il intends to personally participate in the six-party talks to be held in Beijing this week.
China's technological sleight has taken a new dimension as it plans to launch its experimental aerospace, which is expected to commence on the communist country's attempt to build its own space station, says a report from Reuters.
China has urged ally North Korea to go back to negotiations for peace in the Korean Peninsula and to revive moves for North Korea's nuclear disarmament program.
Australia will call on America and Europe to act quickly and decisively in order to revise the downgraded outlook issued on Wednesday by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on both economic regions.
The Australian Bankers' Association (ABA) has proposed more tax breaks for Australian parents in a position paper it sent to Treasury.
Australia's growth momentum gained 0.5 percent from a month earlier to 284.2 and may after all see the light in the last quarter leading to 2012 as a leading economic indicator has been revised upwards to reflect this outlook.
Delinquent U.S. parents who fail to pay court-ordered child support, regardless of their circumstances, are not subject to the same constitutional protections as those charged with violating other laws.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she would skip watching the third episode of ABC political satire "At Home With Julia", which airs Wednesday night.
The Greek government denied Tuesday a local newspaper report that it will push for a referendum on the country's exit from the Eurozone as the country struggles against a debt crisis.
Romanian authorities have seized 15 truckloads of imported Dutch tulips, turning back three of these to suppliers in the Netherlands because the flowers were allegedly contaminated with dangerous bacteria.
The Australian Dollar has held its ground despite the IMF revising global growth forecasts from 4.3% and 4.5% in 2011 and 2012 respectively, to 4% in both years.
Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings promised the support of the Labor Party in the Australian state, which she also heads, for a same-sex marriage motion filed in the state parliament on Tuesday.
Military recruiters are now accepting openly gay and lesbian applicants for enlistment in the U.S. armed forces, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, the day its policy banning soldiers with such sexual orientation ended.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reduced on Wednesday its growth forecast for Australia to 1.8 per cent from previous forecast of 3 per cent. The gloomier outlook is part of the fund's warning of a new global recession that would hit commodity prices and lead to higher unemployment rates.
Former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally expressed her support for marriage equality on national TV overnight, gaining praise from LGBT marriage advocates.
