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Here in Australia, "Question Time" has long been one of my favorite exercises of parliamentary democracy. The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions in an effort to belittle those policies.
When you hear "world tour" you usually think of superstars performing concerts in various cities for adoring fans. Not so with the presidentially deprived, entitlement-driven Hillary Clinton.
En esta imagen extraida de un video de la Australian Broadcasting Corp., personal de emergencia ayuda a victimas atropelladas por un vehiculo, el jueves 21 de diciembre de 2017, en Melbourne, Australia. less En esta imagen extraida de un video de la Australian Broadcasting Corp., personal de emergencia ayuda a victimas atropelladas por un vehiculo, el jueves 21 de diciembre de 2017, en Melbourne, Australia.
OK, it's not as strange as it sounds because each man was true to himself. That is, neither message was surprising, considering the source, but each was important, also considering the source.
It was a vastly different scene last time Bill Quinn was on an Australian Navy ship outside Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands. The then 19-year-old - a stoker on HMAS Australia in the Battle of Savo Island during World War II - saw something horrific - a scene that has stuck with him since that day.
Australia's Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton speaks to reporters in Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rod McGuirk Now that the U.S. government has reached its annual refugee resettlement cap as set by the Trump administration, hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers from Australia won't be able to enter the United States as promised during former President Barack Obama's administration.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull deliver brief remarks to reporters in New York, U.S. May 4, 2017. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reacts as he sits in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, June 15, 2017.
Federal Labor has poured cold water on a US view that Australia will play a greater military role to counter an increasingly belligerent China in the Indo-Pacific region. US senator John McCain, ahead of a visit to Sydney and Canberra next week, says Australia and the US will achieve "peace through strength" in the Trump administration's new strategy in Asia.
Some Australians foresee trouble in their country's traditionally strong alliance with the United States because of what they see as "unpresidential" behavior from President Donald Trump, while others think outspoken businessman-turned-Australian-leader Malcolm Turnbull is a good match for him. Australians have long had an affinity with the United States and absorb American popular culture like blotting paper.
A new $288 million high-security juvenile prison will be built and Melbourne's Parkville centre will be shut down after a series of riots sparked a crisis in the sector. Under a massive shake-up of youth justice, responsibility will be taken off the Department of Health and Human Services in April.
McCain is entitled to decry Trump's terse phone call with Australia, but not to act as though he is the president. Australia is one of America's closest allies in the world.
For decades, Australia and t... . FILE - In this May 8, 2016 file photo, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia.
Malcolm Turnbull refused to confirm or deny whether Donald Trump hung up on him after calling the Nauru resettlement plan the "worst deal ever". No matter the differences between Washington and Canberra or personal disinterest between the respective leaders, any past prime minister could rely on any president to make the phone calls and visits look dignified and diplomatic, as befits a "special relationship".
In this May 8, 2016, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Turnbull said Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 that U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed during a weekend telephone conversation to keep an Obama administration promise to resettle an undisclosed number of mostly Muslim refugees held on the impoverished nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
ICTSI Australian terminal is complete Anders Dommestrup, VICT CEO; John Lines, ANL Managing Director; Enrique Razon, ICTSI Chairman and CEO; Honorable Luke Donnellan, Victoria State Minister for Ports; Councillor Bernadene Voss, Port Phillip City Mayor; Christian Gonzalez, ICTSI Senior Vice President and Asia-Pacific Regional Head; and Brendan Bourke, Port of Melbourne CEO. Photo ICTSI Victoria International Container Terminal recently celebrated the completion of its terminal in Webb Dock in Melbourne, Australia ahead of schedule.
Views from around the world on Monday's first U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump: MILTON GAN, a Sydney-based photographer, said it seemed like Trump was trying to rein in his temper for the first 15 minutes, then went off the rails. "He started interrupting Clinton, he started interrupting Lester and he started steamrolling.