Rod McGuirk

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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2005 file photo, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam sits as a film clip of one of his speeches plays behind him during a lunch in Sydney, Australia. Whitlam, a controversial social reformer whose grip on power was cut short by a bitter constitutional crisis, died on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, his children said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Australia premier credited with 1970s reforms dies

Rod McGuirk · October 21, 2014 12:55 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2005 file photo, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam addresses his audience at a book launch in Sydney. Whitlam, a flamboyant Australian prime minister and controversial social reformer whose grip on power was cut short by a bitter constitutional crisis, died on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, his children said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Former Australia Prime Minister Gough Whitlam dies

Rod McGuirk · October 21, 2014 2:00 am

Australia’s Parliament House lifts face veil ban

Rod McGuirk · October 20, 2014 1:27 am

Australian troops to Iraq held up by legal matters

Rod McGuirk · October 15, 2014 2:28 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin heads the Human Rights Council in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirill Kydryavtsev, Pool)

Russian diplomat calls Australian leader immature

Rod McGuirk · October 14, 2014 12:39 pm

Australian opera company bans ‘Carmen’ for smoking

Rod McGuirk · October 9, 2014 10:33 am

Report: surrogate baby rejected in India on gender

Rod McGuirk · October 9, 2014 2:58 am

Australia plans ban on foreign ‘hate preachers’

Rod McGuirk · October 8, 2014 12:44 am

Leader hopes Australia troops will soon enter Iraq

Rod McGuirk · October 6, 2014 11:02 pm

Australia says it will launch airstrikes in Iraq

Rod McGuirk · October 3, 2014 3:21 am

Australia lifts Ebola donation to $16 million

Rod McGuirk · October 2, 2014 5:39 am

Iraq considering Australian airstrike request

Rod McGuirk · October 2, 2014 3:32 am