http://www.mail.com/organizations/1308002-australia-government.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/1308002-australia-government.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2143202-zealand-pm-we-use-nsa-to-illegally-spy.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Responding to the government-surveillance controversy engulfing New Zealand's security-alliance partners in Washington, Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday his country doesn't use foreign intelligence agencies to circumvent local laws and illegally spy on its citizens. But Key declined to say exactly what help New Zealand d... Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:34:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2143202-zealand-pm-we-use-nsa-to-illegally-spy.html 2013-06-11T08:34:58Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2125160-yothu-yindi-frontman-mandawuy-yunupingu-dies-56.html SYDNEY (AP) — Mandawuy Yunupingu, the former lead singer of Australian indigenous band Yothu Yindi and one of the country's most famous Aborigines, has died, Australia's prime minister said Monday. He was 56. Yunupingu, who gained worldwide fame in the 1980s and 1990s with his hits "Treaty" and "Tribal Voice," died Sunday night at his home in a tiny Outba... Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:26:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2125160-yothu-yindi-frontman-mandawuy-yunupingu-dies-56.html 2013-06-03T03:26:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2113324-report-plans-australia-spy-hq-hacked-china.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian officials on Tuesday refused to confirm or deny whether Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints of a new spy agency headquarters as a news report claims. A tiny party essential to the ruling coalition's government demanded an inquiry into how much damage may have been done. Australian Broadcasting Corp. television r... Tue, 28 May 2013 09:47:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2113324-report-plans-australia-spy-hq-hacked-china.html 2013-05-28T09:47:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2046038-australian-titanic-plans-political-bid.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A wealthy Australian who is rebuilding the Titanic plans to do the political equivalent. Clive Palmer said Friday he intends to refloat the United Australian Party, a once dominant force in Australian politics that sank without a trace in the 1940s. The mining magnate plans to revive the Great Depression-era party and stand cand... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:01:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2046038-australian-titanic-plans-political-bid.html 2013-04-26T06:01:54Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2027390-cheers-maori-song-nzealand-oks-gay-marriage.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The halls of Parliament echoed with a traditional Maori love song after lawmakers made New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage. Supporters of the bill, including hundreds of gay-rights advocates, stood and cheered after the 77-44 vote was announced late... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:46:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2027390-cheers-maori-song-nzealand-oks-gay-marriage.html 2013-04-18T10:46:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025180-nzealand-13th-country-to-legalize-gay-marriage.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's Parliament as the country became the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage. Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favor of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading Wednesday night. People watching from t... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:16:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025180-nzealand-13th-country-to-legalize-gay-marriage.html 2013-04-18T01:16:11Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2019880-australians-rejoice-scotts-masters-victory.html BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The roar that followed Adam Scott's Masters-winning putt at Augusta National could only be heard on the television broadcast so many thousand miles away on Australia's east coast. But distance doesn't really matter Down Under. Within seconds of Scott's 12-foot putt finding the cup on the second playoff hole at Augusta, fans who ... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:47:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2019880-australians-rejoice-scotts-masters-victory.html 2013-04-15T07:47:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1968876-australian-pm-apologizes-forced-adoptions.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades. More than 800 people affected by the policy cried and cheered as they listened to the apology in the Great... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:20:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1968876-australian-pm-apologizes-forced-adoptions.html 2013-03-22T01:20:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1969224-australian-minister-quits-party-ballot-fiasco.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Another Australian government minister quit Friday in the fallout from a bungled leadership ballot that reinforced perceptions of a crisis in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's administration six months before national elections. "This is the honorable thing to do," Chris Bowen told reporters after Gillard accepted his resignation a... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:03:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1969224-australian-minister-quits-party-ballot-fiasco.html 2013-03-22T01:03:52Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1961812-myanmar-president-welcomes-closer-australia-ties.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein welcomed closer ties with Australia on Monday as he asked for continued support through his country's transition to "peace, democracy and prosperity," a mission that he said "has no parallel in modern times." The first Myanmar leader to visit Australia since 1974, Thein Sein joined Australian Prime M... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:26:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1961812-myanmar-president-welcomes-closer-australia-ties.html 2013-03-18T08:26:16Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1956220-boss-plays-note-caution-economic-sway.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Bruce Springsteen is playing a note of caution about his political influence over Australian economic policies. Springsteen and his E Street Band opened their Wrecking Ball Tour to enthusiastic reviews in Brisbane, the hometown of Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan, who revealed in a speech last year that ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:47:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1956220-boss-plays-note-caution-economic-sway.html 2013-03-15T02:47:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1953638-australia-aboriginal-government-leader.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has its first Aboriginal leader of a provincial government, a development welcomed by the prime minister as a historic moment for the nation's impoverished indigenous population. Adam Giles was sworn in Thursday as government head of the Northern Territory, one of two Australian mainland territories largely treated as ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:57:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1953638-australia-aboriginal-government-leader.html 2013-03-14T10:57:24Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1918096-australian-muslim-activists-lose-free-speech-case.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's highest court on Wednesday narrowly rejected the case of two Muslim activists who argued they had a constitutional free-speech right to send offensive letters to families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Iranian-born Man Horan Monis, a Sydney cleric also known as Sheik Haron, was charged with 12 counts o... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:01:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1918096-australian-muslim-activists-lose-free-speech-case.html 2013-02-27T15:01:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1897544-israeli-premier-defends-israel-prisoner-scandal.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Sunday defended the actions of his country's security forces following a public uproar over the mysterious death of a man who apparently hanged himself while being held secretly in a maximum-security prison. Israel has said little about the case. But Australian media have said the man, identified as Ben Zygier, ... Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:10:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1897544-israeli-premier-defends-israel-prisoner-scandal.html 2013-02-17T19:10:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1891082-israeli-australian-prisoner-xs-death-strains-ties.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — He was known as Prisoner X, his crimes unknown. For months he languished in an Israeli prison until he was he was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. Later, rumors would swirl that he was an Australian-Israeli who worked for the Israeli secret service Mossad. The web of secrecy surrounding the man with at least three ... Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:06:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1891082-israeli-australian-prisoner-xs-death-strains-ties.html 2013-02-14T08:06:10Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1889894-gag-orders-silence-israeli-press-digital-age.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military censor, which has long served as the country's guardian of state secrets, is suddenly under the microscope following a pair of sensitive reports broken by the international media. An Australian broadcaster's story this week about the suspicious death of an Australian-Israeli prisoner held by Israel, following foreign rep... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:19:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1889894-gag-orders-silence-israeli-press-digital-age.html 2013-02-13T20:19:57Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1871328-aftershocks-hamper-relief-tsunami-hit-solomons.html SYDNEY (AP) — Strong aftershocks rattled the Solomon Islands on Friday, hampering relief efforts to tsunami-ravaged villages and forcing the South Pacific nation's prime minister to forgo a visit to the stricken area, where nine deaths have been confirmed. Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo was on a plane to Santa Cruz Island in the eastern Solomons to asse... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1871328-aftershocks-hamper-relief-tsunami-hit-solomons.html 2013-02-08T11:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1869230-bulgaria-links-hezbollah-to-bombing-israelis.html SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hezbollah was behind a bus attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out by a terrorist cell that included Canadian and Australian citizens. The first major announcement in the investigation carried broad diplomatic implications, as countrie... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1869230-bulgaria-links-hezbollah-to-bombing-israelis.html 2013-02-05T17:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861256-australian-general-key-us-army-post.html FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (AP) — Maj. Gen. Richard Burr salutes with his palm facing out, like he's shielding his eyes from the sun. He wears a wide-brimmed felt "slouch hat" with a brown and green camouflage uniform. The two-star general in the Australian Defence Force stands out amid the American soldiers donning berets and green and beige fatigues at the U.... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861256-australian-general-key-us-army-post.html 2013-02-01T13:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855354-australian-pm-announces-sept-14-elections.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Julia Gillard surprised Australians on Wednesday by announcing that elections will be held Sept. 14, in a country where governments have traditionally given the opposition little more than a month's notice to keep a strategic advantage. In a speech to the National Press Gallery, Gillard said she wanted to create a... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855354-australian-pm-announces-sept-14-elections.html 2013-01-30T06:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1790954-generals-battle-with-ptsd-leads-to-brink.html SYDNEY (AP) — In the exploding hell of battle, a single hand poked through the earth. John Cantwell could see the ridges and calluses of the skin, and the pile of desert sand that had swallowed the rest of the Iraqi soldier. The troops Cantwell was fighting alongside in the Gulf War had used bulldozing tanks to bury the man alive. This... Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1790954-generals-battle-with-ptsd-leads-to-brink.html 2012-12-29T12:24:00Z