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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has used his final speech of the election campaign to defend his record in office.

Senators in the United States have agreed on a draft resolution that would authorise the use of military force in Syria.

An electoral law specialist says a referendum on the Government's asset sales programme is just a very expensive opinion poll. Audio

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has dismissed claims the Labor Party is headed for inevitable defeat as the election campaign across the Tasman enters its last week.

A team of the French Law Commission will today begin a week-long visit to New Caledonia to help the territory prepare for a possible independence referendum after 2014. The delegation...

The United States President Barack Obama has formally asked the US Congress to authorise military action in Syria.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hasn't given up on winning next Saturday's election, saying private polling shows the race is tighter than people think.

Papua New Guinea's Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen has declared five more failed local level government elections in the Highlands. Four of the failed elections were declared in wards of Hela...

A new poll in Australia suggests a swing against Labor in western Sydney marginal seats is three times worse than the swing against the party across the rest of the country.

A new opinion poll published this morning in Australia, shows Labor's primary vote has risen for the first time since the election campaign began.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he will keep fighting through the election campaign despite polls showing Labor could lose five seats in western Sydney and he could struggle to keep his own…

Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says it is unfortunate that Labour leader David Shearer has chosen another path.

Brent Edwards looks at the reasons behind David Shearer's sudden resignation.

Wednesday's headlines: Contact Energy exits Waikato coastal windfarm project with 168 turbine; doubts raised about repairing Christchurch town hall; blood from a dog used to save a sick cat.

The University of Sydney is tonight hosting a forum calling for formal recognition of Australia's South Sea Islander communities. It is one of a number of events marking 150 years...

The elections manager in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea has defended the process during the local government elections in the province. The Electoral Commissioner, Andrew Trawen, has…

The first opinion poll on the mayoral election in Auckland shows incumbent Len Brown has nearly three times the support of his nearest rival.

Early voting opens across Australia on Tuesday for the federal election on 7 September. Overseas voting starts on 26 August.

In Australia, and for the first-time since the federal election was called, the Opposition leader Tony Abbott has overtaken Kevin Rudd as preferred prime minister.

A bequest of £520,000 to the ruling party in Britain is to be paid into the public purse.

WA Premier Colin Barnett walked out of the state parliamentary chamber on Wednesday when a backbencher took the party to task over the 2013/14 budget.