CANBERRA, Australia _ Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as ``disgraceful'' an opposition claim that she is making light of sexual harassment by allowing the parliamentary speaker to hold his job while facing allegations that he pressured a staffer for gay sex.
House of Representa ....
SYDNEY, Australia _ Australia expects to pull most of its troops out of Afghanistan nearly a year earlier than planned, the prime minister announced Tuesday, saying Australian soldiers have nearly completed their mission to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in the decade-long war.
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CANBERRA, Australia _ Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr is making his first overseas trip in his new job, with stops planned in Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore.
Carr leaves Australia on Saturday for the weeklong trip. He became foreign minister on March 2, after his predecessor Kevin Rudd ....
SYDNEY, Australia _ In its new production of Mozart's ``The Marriage of Figaro,'' Opera Australia shows how a classic work can be reset in the modern world without violating the spirit of the original.
By way of contrast, the company's revival of Puccini's ``Turandot'' ....
CANBERRA, Australia _ Muslim women in Australia's most populous state will have to remove veils to have their signatures officially witnessed under the latest laws giving New South Wales officials authority to look under religious face coverings.
New South Wales state Attorney General Greg Sm ....
