CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister has confirmed that his predecessor and intra-party rival Tony Abbott had once been too drunk to vote in Parliament, an incident that's been a ...

Australia is facing a looming “national crisis” and risks being left dangerously exposed unless swift action is taken on ...

TONY Abbott has asked Speaker Bronwyn Bishop to reconsider a controversial plan to segregate people who wear the burqa in Parliament House. After a week of heated debate about burqas, parliamentary ...

A bill to legalise same-sex marriage was introduced into the Australian parliament on Monday but it is doomed to fail with Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government opposed to any changes. Warren Entsch ...

Australia’s prime minister publicly apologized for comparing the country’s opposition leader to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. On Thursday, Tony Abbott said in a parliament meeting that ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Tony Abbott was a Prime Minister for the Liberal Party in Australia with 13 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 News Conference as a Minister ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia is headed for its first hung parliament since World War II after the country's main political parties failed to secure a clear majority in a national election on ...