CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is working closely with Indonesia to stop people smuggling, the government says.

CANBERRA, Australia, July 5 (UPI) -- The Royal Australian Navy says it has removed four sailors from their ships amid allegations they took part in a sex contest.

CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Australia will not be among the nations accepting terror suspects now held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the government has announced.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Some nations are expressing wariness about U.S. requests for them to accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, diplomatic leaders said.

CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Australia will only accept released Guantanamo detainees who have been thoroughly vetted, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Thursday.

SYDNEY, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A group of unions in Australia is threatening to file a complaint against the federal government for failing to meet international workplace standards.

SYDNEY, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Some 80 percent of Aboriginal children in the remote Northern Territory of Australia fail basic literacy and math tests, officials said.

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Julia Gillard made history Tuesday as Australia's first female acting prime minister.

CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd has named a 20-person Cabinet lineup from his victorious Labor Party, which assumes office next week.