Rod McGuirk

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Australia rejected Qantas request for $2.7 B loan

Rod McGuirk · March 5, 2014 4:08 am

Australia to relax Qantas foreign ownership limits

Rod McGuirk · March 3, 2014 6:05 am

In this Feb. 25, 2014, photo provided by the Incident Control Centre, a fire burns at the Hazelwood Coal Mine at Morwell, Australia. Victoria state Chief Health Officer Rosemary Lester said Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, that vulnerable residents are advised to leave the town of Morwell as a precaution because the fire in the nearby mine is expected to spew smoke for at least 10 more days. (AP Photo/Incident Control Centre) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Australians advised to flee town near burning mine

Rod McGuirk · February 28, 2014 7:19 am

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce announces a first-half loss of 235 million Australian dollars ($211 million) during a press conference in Sydney, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. The Australian flag carrier said the 5,000 jobs would be cut as part of its bid to cut AU$2 billion in costs over three years. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Qantas to cut 5,000 jobs, posts $211 million loss

Rod McGuirk · February 27, 2014 4:47 am

Australia flags more foreign ownership of Qantas

Rod McGuirk · February 25, 2014 3:51 am

Australian police X-ray alleged diamond thief

Rod McGuirk · February 21, 2014 4:07 am

Asylum seeker dies in violent protest at PNG camp

Rod McGuirk · February 18, 2014 10:11 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East Arnhem Land, to be made sometime later this year, in a speech to Parliament on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australian PM to spend a week on Aboriginal land

Rod McGuirk · February 12, 2014 4:03 am

Australian reporter on an Australian TV program, Sunday Night, Mike Willesee, center, speaks to reporters in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Willesee is expected to perform an exclusive interview with Schapelle Corby. Corby, convicted of smuggling marijuana into Indonesia's tourist island of Bali walked free from nine years in jail on Monday after being given parole, the latest chapter in what has been a media sensation in Australia. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Australian drug trafficker’s media payday in doubt

Rod McGuirk · February 11, 2014 8:50 am

Australian PM says asylum seeker policy tough

Rod McGuirk · February 7, 2014 5:25 am

Australian teen takes control after pilot faints

Rod McGuirk · January 26, 2014 9:25 am

Shark killed under new Australian cull policy

Rod McGuirk · January 26, 2014 6:50 am