PM Albanese urges global push towards two-state solution, ceasefire in Gaza

CANBERRA, July 31 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that he discussed the situation in Gaza with his United Kingdom counterpart Keir Starmer and affirmed his government's strong support for the two-state solution, the Palestine News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported.

SYDNEY, July 27 — Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that a decision to ease rules on United States (US) beef imports was not prompted by US President Donald Trump.

SYDNEY, July 13 — Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrived in Shanghai on Saturday for a six-day visit to three Chinese cities where regional security tensions and economic ties are likely to dominate talks.

SYDNEY, May 24 — The body of a man was found in a car trapped in floodwaters in Australia's southeast on Friday, raising the death toll to four, after three days of incessant rain cut off entire towns, swept away livestock and destroyed homes.

SYDNEY, May 13 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was sworn in for a second term today, alongside his ministers, after a landslide win at a national election he said had returned the largest centre-left Labor government since federation in 1901.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim congratulated his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on securing a second term, after a spirited campaign.

SYDNEY, May 3 — Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as Prime Minister today in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters' concerns about the influence of United States (US) President Donald Trump.

SYDNEY, May 3 — Voting began on Saturday in Australia's national election that polls show will likely favour Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over conservative challenger Peter Dutton, with voter appetite for change dampened by worries over Donald Trump's volatile diplomacy.

SYDNEY, March 28 — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday called a national election for May 3, launching a five-week campaign that is set to be dominated by cost-of-living pressures.

MELBOURNE, Jan 10 — Serbian tennis great Novak Djokovic has told magazine GQ that he believes he was "poisoned" during his time in an immigration detention facility in Melbourne ahead of the 2022 Australian Open, reported the German News Agency (dpa).

SYDNEY, Nov 15 — Any move by the Trump administration to change United States (US) climate policy could benefit Australia's ambitions to attract greater investment to its critical minerals and green energy industry, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.

SYDNEY, Nov 7 — Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today said the government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, a policy the government said is world-leading.

SYDNEY, Oct 29 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended free flight upgrades he received from Qantas, following allegations he had liaised directly with the national carrier's former chief executive officer (CEO) to get him bumped up to business class.

CANBERRA, Sept 10 — Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a plan to ban children from using social media.

SYDNEY, May 7 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said it is unacceptable for Australian defence personnel to be put at risk in international airspace by the Chinese military as they took part in an operation to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea.

SYDNEY, April 23 — Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's Prime Minister today after a court ordered his social media company X (formerly Twitter) to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, saying the ruling meant any country could control "the entire Internet".

SYDNEY, April 15 — The Australian police have said the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping centre in Sydney's beach suburb of Bondi on Saturday (April 13) may have targeted women, as the country mourned the victims and hundreds of people laid flowers near the scene.

SYDNEY, April 14 — Sydney's police have ruled out terror or ideology as a motive after a man killed six people in a random stabbing attack yesterday in one of the city's busiest shopping centres.

SYDNEY/TOKYO, April 9 — Australia has downplayed reports that Japan could soon join its AUKUS security pact with the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), saying that any cooperation would be on a project-by-project basis as differences emerge within the pact over adding new members.