Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to introduce new hate speech laws and a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- A wait of 45 years ended when a group of Olympians who defied pressure to boycott the 1980 Moscow Games were recognized in the Australian Parliament on Wednesday for their ...

Australia's New South Wales state parliament was recalled on Monday to vote on proposed new laws that would impose major curbs on firearm ownership, ban the display of terror symbols and restrict ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- The first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia 31 years ago could this year become the ...

Australia's Parliament voted Thursday to allow same-sex marriage across the nation, following a bitter debate settled by a much-criticized government survey of voters that strongly endorsed change.

CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian prosecutor said Friday he had dropped a rape charge against a former government adviser because of the life-threatening trauma a trial would cause the woman ...

A judge on Thursday discharged a jury in the high-profile trial of a former government advisor charged with raping a colleague in the Australian Parliament House because a juror had brought a research ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s Parliament resumed Tuesday for the first time since the center-left Labor Party won one of the nation’s largest-ever majorities in the May elections. The day was ...

Australian Senator Larissa Waters became the first person in history to breastfeed in Parliament on Tuesday Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to ...

An Australian senator yelled “This is not your land, you are not my king, you are not our king” at King Charles III during a royal visit Monday. Lidia Thorpe, an independent Aboriginal senator, ...

Australia's Parliament has voted to approve same-sex marriage following a protracted and often bitter debate that was finally settled in a nationwide referendum last month that overwhelmingly backed ...