Kevin Rudd News

MIDWIVES' ability to work independently - which Health Minister Nicola Roxon promised - would depend on endorsement from individual doctors under an amendment to proposed legislation that has infuriated women's groups.

African nations threatening to stymie climate change agreements in Barcelona have named Kevin Rudd as one political leader who has failed to deliver meaningful targets.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has offered more assistance to victims of flooding on the NSW north coast.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been asked to allow Labor MPs a free parliamentary vote on gay marriage.

Sydney, Nov 8 : Releasing Tamils from camps and reintegrating them into Sri Lankan society would help staunch the flow of asylum seekers crossing the Indian Ocean, Australia Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.

The South Pacific island nation of Fiji is embroiled in another diplomatic row with Australia and New Zealand after expelling their top envoys over a spat about travel visas.

THERE are ominous signs that an agreement at Copenhagen could be doomed to failure after G20 finance ministers were unable to reach a consensus on how to fund a global scheme to combat climate change.

FORMER prime minister John Howard has launched an extraordinary attack on Kevin Rudd, accusing him of running a wasteful do-nothing government and mishandling the asylum seeker issue.

INDONESIA extended by a week from today a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.

Kevin Rudd is kidding himself if he thinks Australia can act as a bridge between the US and China, Rupert Murdoch says / File Rudd kidding himself with G20 - Murdoch Made too much of China during election China expects too much from PM KEVIN Rudd is delusional if he thinks Australia can lead the world or act as a bridge between the US and China, ...

A $320 million government bailout of a compensation fund for asbestos victims does not excuse James Hardie from making future payments, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.

"The tentacles of the climate change sceptics reach deep into the ranks of the Liberal Party." Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has upped the pressure on the Opposition over its emissions trading stance, accusing it of being full of climate change deniers intent on delaying action.

A decade on from a referendum defeat, republicans are again calling for a change to Australia's constitution.

TRAUMATISED survivors of a boat that capsized on the way to Australia last weekend were detained on Christmas Island yesterday.

The vice foreign minister on Thursday hailed Vice Premier Li Keqiang's official visit to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea as "very fruitful," calling it a major diplomatic activity of China with the South Pacific region.

Aboriginal poverty has worsened since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's formal apology to the stolen generations, the winner of the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize says.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia - Deep in the jungle on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean, Australia's new $370 million refugee detention center reaches its full power after its lights come on at dusk.

The Australian silence has unique features. It affects our national life, the way we see the world, and the way we are manipulated by great power which speaks through an invisible government of propaganda that subdues and limits our political imagination and ensures we are always at war - against our own first people and those seeking refuge, or in ...

One of Indonesiaa s top diplomats believes his government should reject Australiaa s request for more time to resolve the Oceanic Viking asylum seeker impasse.

AS A member of the ACTU presidents' club, Martin Ferguson doesn't normally take public swipes at his former comrades.