Australia had agreed to start negotiations on a civil nuclear deal with India during the October visit of PM Julia Gillard to New Delhi. ...
03:07 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Tendulkar is only the second Indian after Soli Sorabjee to get the honour. ...
05:52 PM, Nov 06, 2012
"Tendulkar is almost as widely admired in Australia as he is here in his homeland," Julia Gillard said. ...
05:40 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Melbourne: Nearly a year after it reversed its policy of not supplying uranium to India, Australian government has, however, said the sale will not start quickly and even a safeguard agreement is likely to take one or two years. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is on a three-day visit to India, hosed down any suggestions that uranium sale to India will start quickly. Negotiating a safeguard agreement is likely...
04:50 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The honour will be conferred on Sachin by Australian cabinet minister Simon Crean when he visits India some time soon. ...
10:52 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday emphatically won the Labor leadership ballot, handing her arch-rival Kevin Rudd a resounding defeat by 71 votes to 31. With the win in the 103-member caucus, the country's first female prime minister ended Rudd's hopes of returning as premier any time before the General Elections next year, the Herald Sun reported. It is the biggest win in a Labor leadership ballot in...
07:42 AM, Feb 27, 2012
CANBERRA Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line on Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by Kevin Rudd, the colleague she ousted in a Labor Party coup nearly two years ago. The vote by party lawmakers, scheduled for Monday, is an effort by Gillard to knock down a power struggle that has been percolating for weeks, and that spilled over onto the...
03:12 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Melbourne: The Australian government has been asked to step up its condemnation for China after the latter's security forces fired into a crowd of Tibetans during the weekend in a restive area of Sichuan Province. According to 'The Australian' report, the Australia's Tibet Council asked Julia Gillard to condemn the Chinese authorities for the incident. The firing occurred on last Saturday as people gathered in Dari in the Golog prefecture...
08:22 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Melbourne: Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser on Monday strongly criticised Julia Gillard for amending the long-standing Labor policy to sell uranium to India calling it a "shameful abject submission to US pressure." In an opinion piece published in 'The Age', Fraser, who led the country during 1975-83 as a Prime Minister, said "Canberra's abject submission to US pressure is shameful." He said Gillard has been "dead wrong" in doing...
08:52 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is all set to announce her new team on Monday while support for Labor government and Gillard as Prime Minster fell by four per cent in a latest poll. According to 'the Australian', Gillard on Sunday had discussed key portfolio positions in a series of telephone calls with senior ministers. The reshuffle was prompted after Small Business Minister Nick Sherry informed about his resignation...
08:28 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Melbourne: Calling the ruling Labor's decision to lift ban on uranium sale to India as "deeply significant", Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith on Monday said it would advance Canberra's interests and benefit its ties with the "emerging super power." Asserting that the global community has come to accept that India would not sign Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty, Smith, who was among those who supported Prime Minister Julia Gillard's bold move to...
09:01 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Canberra: If Australia sells uranium to India, it should sell to Pakistan as well, Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Malik Abdullah in Canberra told ABC Radio on Monday. On Sunday, Australian Labor government voted to overturn ban on uranium sales to India at the Labor's national conference, in which Prime Minister Julia Gillard said would boost trade and enhance Australia's relationship with India. Abdullah claimed that Australia should sell uranium to...
07:21 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: India on Sunday welcomed the decision of Australia's ruling Labor Party to allow supply of uranium, reversing its long held position. "It is learnt that the Australian Labour Party agreed today, to allow sale of Uranium to India for power generation. ...We welcome this initiative," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said in statement. He said bilateral cooperation in energy sector is one of the important aspects of India's...
08:48 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Melbourne: Australia's ruling Labor on Sunday voted to overturn a decades-old ban on uranium sale to India, paving the way for Canberra to supply yellowcake to a nation outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Delegates at the 46th national conference of the Labor in Sydney endorsed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to export uranium to India, with 206 of them voting in favour and 185 against. Gillard, while moving a motion...
09:46 AM, Dec 04, 2011
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will get more salary than US President Barack Obama and the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, as the country's Remuneration Tribunal has decided in favour of increasing the wage of the MPs. The salary of Gillard is set to overshoot by $ 90,000 making her total wages exceed even US president Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron salaries, a media report said....
09:16 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Nusa Dua (Bali): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Australian counterpart Julia Gillard met on Saturday for a brief interaction to take forward discussions on selling uranium to India and also to review their strategic partnership. The unscheduled pull aside, on the sidelines of the India-Asean and East Asia summits, saw the two leaders interacting for seven-eight minutes. "Prime Minister Gillard apprised on the steps she's planning to take on...
08:16 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Bali: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday made it clear that she would take forward her proposal to lift ban on uranium sale to India as she met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Bali. Singh and Julia, who are in Bali to attend the ASEAN and East Asia Summits, had a 'pull-aside' meeting during which the issue figured. "I am taking the change of policy to my party conference...
12:09 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Bangalore: India on Tuesday welcomed Australian Government's move towards reversing its ban on uranium exports to India. "We welcome Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal to seek a change in Australia's Labour Party's policies and sale of uranium to India in recognition of our energy needs for the impeccable record in non-proliferation and strategic partnership between two nations," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told reporters in Bangalore. Krishna said India...
12:40 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Melbourne: Calling the Labor party's long-standing policy banning uranium exports to India as outdated, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday indicated her plans to allow uranium sales to the country. In a write up in 'The Age' report today, Gillard has indicated her plan to push for party policy at next month's Labor national conference to lift the ban, bringing Australia into line with America's thinking. Gillard declares that...
09:35 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Perth: Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday said the killing of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan will not undermine Canberra's will to continue its mission in the war-torn nation as the military deployment there was in national interests. Describing Saturday's deadliest incident for Australian troops in Afghanistan as a 'bitter day for Australia', Gillard said the mission would continue as planned. Three soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded...
02:45 PM, Oct 30, 2011
