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DARWIN, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 05: In this handout image provided by the Australian Defence Force, Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin is seen during AUSINDEX 21, a biennial maritime exercise between the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy on September 5, 2021 in Darwin, Australia. Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom have announced a new strategic defence partnership - known as AUKUS - to build a class of nuclear-propelled submarines and work together in the Indo-Pacific region. The new submarines will replace the Royal Australian Navy's existing Collins submarine fleet. (Photo by POIS Yuri Ramsey/Australian Defence Force via Getty Images)

ScoMo’s submarine ‘mess’ lashed

Scott Morrison signed a major security deal but there’s now fresh doubts over the promise.

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Dirty habit could spell end for Boris

What started out as quite amusing tittle tattle could now spell the end of Boris Johnson’s political career.

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pictured after arriving at RAF Brize Norton, west of London having returned from Kyiv in Ukraine, on June 18, 2022. - Britain's prime minister on Friday made his second visit to Kyiv in just over two months, offering Kyiv a military training programme as President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed Britain's

New man in charge as Boris taken to hospital

The British Prime Minister was taken to hospital for an operation on Monday morning UK time.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. - Assange was on January 24, 2022 given permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a decision to extradite him to the United States. The High Court in London approved a bid by the publisher's lawyers to take the case to the country's highest court on

Albo urged to stop Assange ‘madness’

Anthony Albanese has been urged to call up Joe Biden and sort out the “madness” of the US’ plans to extradite Julian Assange.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 1, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven out of Southwark Crown Court in London, after having been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. - Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing extradition to the United States over the 2010 publication of thousands of leaked classified documents. A British judge will begin hearing the case for sending him to the US to face espionage charges on Monday, February 24. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Julian Assange’s worst fears realised

The British Government has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US.

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A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel gesturing as she gives a statement concerning the government's plan to send migrants and asylum seekers who cross the Channel to Rwanda, in the House of Commons, in London, on June 15, 2022. - Britain vowed Wednesday it would pursue its controversial policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda after a first flight was cancelled following a legal ruling, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government. The number of those due to be put on the flight on Tuesday had dwindled from an original 130 to seven and finally none after a last-minute order by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). (Photo by PRU / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Judge blocks huge move at last minute

There has been furious reaction in Britain after a judge dramatically blocked its plan in a last-gasp intervention.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 5, 2022 shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts during the Platinum Pageant in London on June 5, 2022 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee celebrations. - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a Conservative Party confidence vote on his leadership on June 6, 2022, after 54 of his Tory MPs triggered a contest following a string of scandals.

Boris learns his fate after leadership vote

The UK Prime Minister came under fire after pictures showed him attending parties while the rest of the country was in lockdown.

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and his wife Carrie react during the Platinum Pageant in London on June 5, 2022 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee celebrations. - The curtain comes down on four days of momentous nationwide celebrations to honour Queen Elizabeth II's historic Platinum Jubilee with a day-long pageant lauding the 96-year-old monarch's record seven decades on the throne. (Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP)

Boris Johnson could be axed as PM today

The British PM faces a crunch leadership vote that could see him ousted, after being booed at the Queen’s jubilee thanksgiving service.

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Boris Johnson is seen holding a can of beer at an illegal party during lockdown.

Grainy pic that could spell doom for Boris

Shocking details from a new report describe revellers drunkenly brawling at the heart of government while gatherings were banned.

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Anthony Albanese during a call on the prime ministerial plane.

Albo wins heart of leader with 25-min call

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has already impressed one major world leader, bonding during a 25-minute call en route to Tokyo.

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Boris on the brink as leaked photos emerge

The UK prime minister has repeatedly said that he was unaware of any lockdown-breaking parties, but the new images appear to contradict his claims.

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FEDERAL ELECTION TEAM 2022. LABOR BUS TOUR 19/5/22Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese pictured in Sydney electorate of Bennelong this morning visiting kids at Goodstart Early Learning Centre childcare centre. Pictured with Labor candidate Jerome Laxale on left. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Push for Albo to emulate Biden and BoJo

A new campaign aims to convince Anthony Albanese to emulate Joe Biden and Boris Johnson on a certain topic if he wins power.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 14, 2019 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II sits on the Sovereign's throne in the House of Lords as she delivers the Queen's Speech at the State Opening of Parliament in the Houses of Parliament in London. - Queen Elizabeth II on February 6, 2022, becomes the first British monarch to reign for 70 years, heralding the start of her Platinum Jubilee year despite her retreat from public view. But the landmark date this weekend will see little fanfare, as the 95-year-old monarch traditionally spends the anniversary of the death of her father in private. (Photo by Paul Edwards / POOL / AFP)

Health fears as Queen set to miss major event

The Queen has cancelled yet another event due to health concerns but this time it’s one of the most important which she hasn’t missed in six decades.

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‘Slob’ Boris could be gone in ‘three weeks’

The knives are out for UK PM Boris Johnson after humiliating election results last week. Some of his own MPs now say he could face a leadership vote within weeks.

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MP’s bad excuse for watching porn at work

A British MP has resigned after he was caught looking at porn in the House of Commons — but offered a feeble excuse for his indiscretion.

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Waleed (R), 29, a Kuwaiti migrant, sits in a dinghy with other migrants as they illegally cross the English Channel from France to Britain on September 11, 2020. - The number of migrants crossing the English Channel -- which is 33,8 km (21 miles) at the closest point in the Straits of Dover -- in small inflatable boats has spiralled over the summer of the 2020. According to authorities in northern France some 6,200 migrants have attempted the crossing between January 1 and August 31, 2020, compared with 2,294 migrants for the whole of 2019. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)

’Cruel’ plan to fly migrants to Africa

Boat migrants flooding into Britain will be flown nearly 10,000 kilometres to Africa for their asylum claims to be processed in a plan dubbed “cruel” by refugee advocates.

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Boris in crisis as police take action

Mr Johnson was accused of attending parties in Downing Street during lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, but initially denied any wrongdoing.

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UK Prime Minister in surprise Kyiv visit

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has become the highest profile world leader yet to pay an on-the-ground visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded.

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BoJo’s one demand of ScoMo

A mundane Senate committee broke out into laughter after officials revealed what Boris Johnson demanded Scott Morrison do before attending a summit in the UK.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Ingushetia's regional head at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 30, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Putin advisers ‘afraid’ to tell him the truth

The director of the UK’s intelligence agency claims Vladimir Putin has misjudged the Ukraine invasion but his advisers are too scared to tell him the truth.

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Polina bought a £4.4million ($AUD7.78 million) London flat with no mortgage when she was 21. Photo: Twitter

‘Murderer’: Russian socialite targeted

Protesters have gathered outside the $7.78 million London flat of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s secret “stepdaughter”.

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How Queen could write off Andrew’s payout

The Queen could write off Prince Andrew’s payout to Virginia Giuffre as an expense using finance loopholes, secret wills and seabed fortune.

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A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows British former Prime Minister Theresa May asking a question of Boris Johnson, during his statement to MPs following the release of the Sue Gray report, in the House of Commons in London on January 31, 2022. - An inquiry into lockdown parties held in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Downing Street complex on Monday said some of the events should not have been allowed and identified leadership lapses.

Former PM delivers ‘devastating’ gut punch

With the man who replaced her floundering and under pressure to resign, former British PM Theresa May delivered one more body blow.

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$GENEVA, SWITZERLAND JUNE 16, 2021: Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on during talks with US President Joe Biden at the Villa La Grange. Mikhail Metzel/TASS (Photo by Mikhail Metzel\\TASS via Getty Images)$