MELBOURNE, Australia -- The first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia 31 years ago could this year become the ...

Australia's New South Wales state parliament was recalled on Monday to vote on proposed new laws that would impose major ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- A wait of 45 years ended when a group of Olympians who defied pressure to boycott the 1980 Moscow Games were recognized in the Australian Parliament on Wednesday for their ...

SYDNEY — As Australia waits for the final results of a tightly-contested general election, five Jewish members have been assured a seat in the next parliament. Incumbent Jewish members Michael Danby ...

Australia's Parliament voted Thursday to allow same-sex marriage across the nation, following a bitter debate settled by a much-criticized government survey of voters that strongly endorsed change.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s Parliament resumed Tuesday for the first time since the center-left Labor Party won one of the nation’s largest-ever majorities in the May elections. The day was ...

Australian Senator Larissa Waters became the first person in history to breastfeed in Parliament on Tuesday Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to ...

CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian prosecutor said Friday he had dropped a rape charge against a former government adviser because of the life-threatening trauma a trial would cause the woman ...

Australian Sen. Larissa Waters, deputy co-leader of the Australian Greens party, became the first woman in Australian political history to breastfeed a baby during a Parliament session on May 9.

Australia's Parliament has voted to approve same-sex marriage following a protracted and often bitter debate that was finally settled in a nationwide referendum last month that overwhelmingly backed ...

A woman dumped the remains of her bushfire-charred family home outside the Australian parliament on Monday, accusing lawmakers of failing to act on the climate crisis. Melinda Plesman and her partner, ...

The vote ends a long and at times bitter debate. — -- Marriage equality is now a reality in Australia. Its Parliament voted on Thursday to allow same-sex marriage in the Commonwealth country. The ...