UPDATE 2.10 PM: Scott Morrison has been sworn in as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia. Scott Morrison is promising frustrated Australian voters a "new generation" of leadership after a shock upset saw him seize the prime ministership during the chaotic Liberal Party campaign that saw the ex...

REUTERS - Besieged Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's leadership looked doomed on Thursday (August 23) after three of his senior ministers announced they had tendered their resignations and called for a second leadership vote. The ministers, who supported Turnbull in a leadership ballot...

Reuters - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday (July 19) that Pope Francis must sack an Australian archbishop convicted of concealing child sex abuse. Archbishop Philip Wilson, 67, in May became the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of not disclosing to police abuse by anoth...

Australia has become the latest country to expel Russian diplomats as part of a global response to the poisoning of a Russian spy in the UK. Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull noted that the attack in Salisbury was an attack on all. Turnbull and Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop issued a...

Two-thirds of Australian voters requests Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce to resign following his extramarital affair with his former press secretary. Joyce, a Catholic who campaigned on "family values" and who has been married for 24 years, refused to resign when it was made public he was ex...