Leader of devastated Australian Labor Party to stand again
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Opposition leader Mark Latham has declared his intention to recontest the leadership of the centre-left Labor Party even as he was being blamed for its devastating defeat in the weekend election.
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THE Federal Government had not been honest with the Australian public and deserved to be voted out, Labor Leader Mark Latham said today.
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SYDNEY: Prime Minister John Howard has kicked off his bid for a fourth term in office on shaky ground, forced to call elections sooner than he would have liked by a robust attack on his credibility from the opposition, editorialists said Monday.
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Australian leader John Howard is set to call a general election, widely expected to be on 9 October.
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South African president likely to lose party leadership to man he sacked as deputy president, Jacob Zuma
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Prime Minister John Howard has inspected the damage caused by last month&#39;s car bomb at the Australian embassy in Jakarta. The Prime Minister, who is to meet Indonesia&#39;s President elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
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MARK Latham&#39;s ability to hold a warring Labor Party together is being stretched to its limit after another frontbencher quit and foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd indicated he was considering his future as he pressed for a promotion.
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Indonesia's ex-leader, 86, is in a critical condition after suffering multiple organ failure for the second time.
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Brad Hodge will replace Ricky Ponting on Australia's cricket tour of India while the captain recovers from a broken thumb.
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The leader of Australia's opposition Labor Party announced Tuesday he will quit politics because of ill health.
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Australia's Labor leader Mark Latham has announced his resignation as leader of the opposition, after only 13 months in the job, and his bowing out of public life, due to poor health.
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Mark Latham was re-elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, one of Australia&#39;s biggest political parties, here Friday. Jenny Macklin was returned to the deputy&#39;s position.
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Australia's main opposition party on Monday elected a new leader in a bid to end Prime Minister John Howard's 11-year winning streak.
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MARK COLVIN: The Opposition leader, Mark Latham, is up and talking to the media after his bout of pancreatitis, and he was keen today to let it be known that he&#39;s ready to plunge back into the electoral fray.
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Labor says there appears to have been pressure from the Prime Minister&#39;s office on a public servant and it&#39;s reaffirmed its determination to reopen the Senate inquiry into the matter.
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One week away from a knife-edge election, Australian Prime Minister John Howard declared yesterday he would be re-elected on October 9, but only just, as anti-Iraq war rallies urged voters to throw him out of ...
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Australian rock star-turned-lawmaker Peter Garrett said Monday he expected to return to Parliament on Tuesday following a health scare over the weekend.