Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon pricing sales pitch has been dealt a fresh blow after one of the country's top retailers declared the policy was partly to blame for a dramatic collapse in consumer confidence.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's support amongst Australians as she battles carbon tax and asylum seeker issues continues to dwindle with opposition leader Tony Abbott in the box seat.
Prime Minister John Key will next month become the first New Zealand prime minister to address Australia's Parliament.
A long-term Australian resident of New Zealand origin appears to have died in the Christchurch earthquake, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
The strong "mateship" between New Zealand and Australia has been highlighted by Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the first visit to these shores by an Australian leader since 2007.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has referred in her historic address to Parliament to the anguish New Zealand is suffering over the death of another Kiwi soldier in Afghanistan.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has arrived at Parliament and received an official welcome with flags flying at half-mast.
New Zealand should be reassured by Australia's strength, not fear it, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
Prime Minister John Key used a visit to a school with a "special friend", Australian leader Julia Gillard, to acknowledge National Standards had not gone as smoothly as planned.
The risk of embarrassing Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was behind a move to ask her to speak to New Zealand's Parliament outside normal hours, Prime Minister John Key revealed this afternoon.
Australia's prime minister today introduced tax legislation to Parliament that would help pay for record storm and flood damage, as debate raged about whether the government should instead cut foreign aid.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will make her first visit to New Zealand next week and become the first foreign leader to address New Zealand's Parliament.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has defended her ministerial reshuffle, amid persistent criticism on the eve of the new frontbench being sworn in.
Australian voters have had a rapid lesson in coalition forming these past two weeks, after having sent a message to all political parties of their dissatisfaction.
Australian Independent MP Andrew Wilkie says an offer made to him by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to gain her support in forming the next government is "unsatisfactory".
In past lives, they were a labourer, an administrative officer, an intelligence analyst, a farmer and a barrister. Today, they are the five most powerful people in Australian politics and are being wooed by that country's Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
Labor's hopes of winning the August 21 election received a double fillip on Monday with the first Newspoll of the campaign giving it a commanding lead over the coalition, and an agreement hatched with the Australian Greens on preferences.
The Australian election campaign, which was robustly - brutally, some might say - signalled when Julia Gillard toppled Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, got under way proper last Saturday when she announced the poll would be held on August 21.
The campaign leading up to today's Australian general election has been fought determinedly at the shallow end of the political pool.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard stands by her decision to topple Kevin Rudd, highlighting her loyalty to him as a deputy.
