Australia

Smoke billows out of a chimney stack of steel works factories in Port Kembla, south of Sydney. (AP/Rob Griffith)

Australia’s carbon tax debacle shows why it’s a bad idea

Shikha Dalmia · July 24, 2014 9:00 pm

FILE - Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a news conference in Sydney, Australia, in this July 19, 2014 file photo. Abbott said on Wednesday July 23, 2014 he was discussing with government leaders options for securing the 50-square kilometer (20-square mile) crash site, including his preferred option of a multinational security force mounted by countries such as Australia, Netherlands and Malaysia that lost citizens in the disaster. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australia vows help to secure Ukraine crash site

Rod McGuirk · July 24, 2014 4:31 am

As President Obama was using colorful graphics to drum up support for his new carbon emission capping agenda, Conservative Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was acting on his promise to repeal his nation's carbon tax. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

If emissions regulations hurt Australia, why do Democrats want them for America?

Spencer Brown · July 21, 2014 7:30 pm

FILE - In this July 2, 2014 file photo, smoke billows out of a chimney stack of steel works factories in Port Kembla, south of Sydney. Australia's government repealed a much-maligned carbon tax on the nation's worst greenhouse gas polluters on Thursday, July 17, 2014, ending years of contention over a measure that became political poison for the lawmakers who imposed it. The Senate voted 39 to 32 to axe the 24.15 Australian dollar ($22.60) tax per metric ton of carbon dioxide that was introduced by the center-left Labor government in July 2012. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australia repeals maligned 2-year-old carbon tax

Kristen Gelineau · July 17, 2014 11:46 am

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2009 file photo twelve-year-old Rebecca Goudge, second from right, and neighbors nine-year-olds Dean, left, and Kirk Mercuri, right, and their sister Alison, 11, walk around the wreckage of Goudge's home in Kinglake, northeast of Melbourne, Australia. The fire, which killed 119 people, was the largest of a series of blazes that tore through the southern Australian state of Victoria in 2009, leaving 173 people dead and destroying more than 2,000 homes in just over a single day. Survivors of one of Australia's deadliest wildfires are expected to be awarded nearly 500 million Australian dollars ($470 million) in a class action settlement reached on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, the largest such compensation in the nation's history. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Record settlement reached in Aussie wildfire suit

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 9:43 am

Sri Lankans win temporary reprieve from Australia

Sri Lankans win temporary reprieve from Australia

Kristen Gelineau · July 8, 2014 1:22 pm

President Barack Obama answers questions on violence in Iraq during his meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Thursday, June 12, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Obama said that Iraq will need additional assistance from the U.S. to push back an Islamic insurgency. The president did not specify in a brief question-and-answer session what type of assistance he is willing to provide. But Obama did say the White House has not ruled anything out. He said he is watching the situation in Iraq with concern and wants to ensure that jihadists don't get a foothold. Iraq has been beset by violence since the last American forces withdrew in late 2011. The violence escalated this week with an al-Qaida-inspired group capturing two key Sunni-dominated cities this week and vowing to march on to Baghdad. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

Obama praises security cooperation with Australia

Matthew Pennington · June 12, 2014 8:11 pm

President Obama on Tuesday said the âbiggest frustrationâ of his presidency is the countryâs unwillingness to enact gun control laws. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Obama: Inability to pass gun control ‘biggest frustration,’ cites Australian gun crackdown as success story

Blake Seitz · June 11, 2014 1:00 pm

Australia's Defense Minister David Johnston, left, and his Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera, right, shake hands during a meeting in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Japan and Australia plan to move ahead with plans to develop a stealth submarine technology this week, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushes to give his country a more assertive global military role. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan, Australia eye sub deal, closer defense ties

Mari Yamaguchi · June 11, 2014 9:44 am

National Park Service to promote America’s LGBT history

Washington Secrets

National Park Service to promote America’s LGBT history

Paul Bedard · June 9, 2014 6:20 pm

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, second from left, talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during their meeting in Batam, Indonesia, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The leaders of Indonesia and Australia met Wednesday for the first time since relations between the countries were damaged over spying allegations. (AP Photo/Tundra Laksamana)

Indonesia, Australia leaders hold make-up talks

ali-kotarumalos · June 4, 2014 2:42 pm

More than 60 women join Australian combat roles

More than 60 women join Australian combat roles

Rod McGuirk · June 4, 2014 3:13 am