Australia’s newspapers on Saturday ripped into their team’s feeble batting in the second Test against England, fearing the Ashes campaign might have unravelled in one catastrophic session at Lord’s.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Friday announced that no more boatpeople will be resettled in Australia as refugees, with all unauthorised arrivals to be sent to poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Australia’s first female premier Julia Gillard has opened up for the first time on the sexism that plagued her leadership and her famous misogyny speech in her final interview before being ousted.

Kevin Rudd was sworn in today as Australia’s new Prime Minister almost three years to the day since he was ruthlessly ousted from the job by Julia Gillard, as Labour desperately fights for electoral survival.

A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said on Saturday.

Palaeontologists have made the surprising evolutionary discovery that ancient Australian fish may have had abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals.

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has said that Australia ‘got lazy’ with the fading of their dominant era, although he added that they will be back with a vengeance for the Ashes.

The Ashes will be playing at the back of every Australian cricketer’s mind but captain Michael Clarke wants them to focus on the immediate job in hand — the Champions Trophy.

Cricket Australia said on Tuesday it had no immediate plan to curb the use of social media by players after a Twitter rant by David Warner, but suggested it could happen in the future.

Cricket Australia today unveiled a list of 20 contracted players for the new season amid reports that star bowler Mitchell Starc is celebrating a million dollar pay-day.