Gambling issue a no-brainer for the PM

The Australian Government has introduced its new bill to lift the Medicare levy from 1.5% to 2%, designed to help fund DisabilityCare. The scheme is estimated to require $A19.3bn in federal funding over the period to 2020. Prime Minister Julia ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been brought to tears in Parliament while introducing legislation to help fund the national disability insurance scheme. In an emotional speech, Ms Gillard spoke of some people with disabilities she has recently met, ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Sunday insisted she can win another term in office at September elections, giving a fiery defence of her chances when the "white noise" of politics falls away.

Australia and China have agreed to considerably expand defence ties following the visit of Prime Minister Julia Gillard to Beijing, which also saw both countries elevate their relationship to a st...

Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking former prime minister ousted by Gillard in 2010 amid another round of plummeting polls, said on Friday he would never again run for the leadership - unless it was already vacant

A former Australian lawmaker, who advocates deeper ties with India, today criticised Prime Minister Julia Gillards government for its "obsession" with the foreign worker visa programme, saying it was "a political stunt" that risked alienating Asian neighbours.

China and Australia will begin direct conversion of their currencies in a sign of growing business links, Julia Gillard said.

Both the major political parties in Australia have rejected calls to carry out a referendum on gay marriage on Election Day.

Gillard's struggling minority government will on May 14 deliver its final budget before the September elections.