Anthony Albanese has been delivered a stinging rebuke from a former Japanese ambassador to Australia over some tasteless joking on a podcast about his prime ministerial counterpart’s gift of two ...

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sidestepped calls to apologise on Tuesday after a clip emerged of him engaging in crude banter about a gift from his Japanese counterpart. Albanese had ...

Anthony Albanese is facing backlash over a gesture involving two melons, amid claims it was in reference to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's body. The opposition has called for Mr Albanese to ...

The "assertion" that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese imitated the Japanese prime minister's breasts during a podcast interview "is incorrect", a spokesperson for him has told SBS News. The comment ...

The latest federal Newspoll has the combined vote for One Nation and the Coalition down two points to 47%. This is in line with most other recent polls, the exception being last week’s Redbridge poll ...

Asked whether he would say sorry for his "disrespectful behaviour" in parliament on Tuesday, the Australian leader said: "I reject the assertion in the question." Australian Prime Minister Anthony ...

It's a tale of two prime ministers. When Kevin Rudd was prime minister, the standing joke among colleagues was that they would line up and rush to get their work ticked off whenever his deputy, Julia ...

Anthony Albanese has told the Japanese he was not being lewd when joking about the prized crown melons presented to him by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, but his ongoing denials are causing disquiet ...

The Albanese government’s leadership group overruled cabinet on Labor’s new immigration policy, saying the measures agreed were too weak to cut the number of net arrivals from overseas and the system ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. For someone who claims not to have considered himself leadership material until he reached 50, ...