| Australia Votes on Whether First Female Leader Survives The country’s first female prime minister is neck-and-neck with her socially conservative challenger just two months after she took power. nytimes.com |
Rural Lawmakers Hold Key in Australian Election Cliffhanger The Australian news media have been scrambling to get a fix on the three once-obscure lawmakers who may be called upon to resolve the stalemate in Parliament. nytimes.com |
Brown's Greens flex eco muscles THE arrival of the Greens as a political force has been cemented with a seat at the all-powerful Cabinet table. heraldsun.com.au |
Gunmen torch NATO supply vehicles in Pakistan Heavily armed gunmen in Pakistan have set ablaze more than two dozen trucks and tankers carrying fuel and supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, one day after Pakistan closed the border to the convoys. abc.net.au |
Police told to get tough on Taser misuse Western Australia's Attorney-General wants a review of police disciplinary procedures after two officers escaped prosecution despite tasering a man 13 times in a Perth watch-house. abc.net.au |