Tony Abbott

In a typical year, Australia makes as many ripples in British public life as you would expect from a rich, war-free country of 25 million people at th(...)

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott says he is looking forward to contributing his “expertise” in global commerce to help Britain in his new (...)

Australians will go to the polls on May 18th after the prime minister, Scott Morrison, visited the governor general – Queen Elizabeth’s representative(...)

I’m struck, as the British parliament moves towards the endgame on Brexit, with the number of times Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India have been(...)

The calendar finally ticked over into February last week, officially ending the hottest January Australia has ever seen. This is a sobering fact, give(...)

Australia’s now annual battle over the meaning and legitimacy of its national day has become more contentious than ever this year. A group of right-w(...)

When Australia introduced a carbon price of AU$23 (€14.77) per tonne on July 1st, 2012, the plan was it would transition to a cap-and-trade emissions (...)

The week in numbers: Amazonian affairs 240 US cities that initially responded, with much enthusiasm, to Amazon’s 2017 call for pitches for the honou(...)

After Trump in the US, Erdogan in Turkey, Bolsonaro in Brazil and gains for extremist parties across Europe, Australia might have been expected to fol(...)

As Ireland moves towards a mandatory pension scheme to address the large number of workers who face retirement on nothing but the State pension, the G(...)