A sign along the Kokoda Track, a sacred military site in Papua New Guinea, has long been etched with the word “mateship” but it has now been changed to “friendship”, causing fury among Australian war ...

FORT MYER, Va. -- Being a "mate" in Australia has a whole different connotation than in the United States. Australians trust a mate implicitly. A mate is a person who shares the last drink of water or ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Tony Abbott was desperate to paint his just-completed trip to Papua New Guinea in highly positive terms but as far as asylum ...

MELBOURNE—The civil war that seems to have broken out among some members of the Australian tennis community is disappointing on many levels—not least because it flies in the face of a tradition that ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump welcomed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to the White House Friday in an attempt to rebuild a sometimes-strained relationship with a crucial Pacific ally. “A ...

Research Manager and Doctoral Candidate, Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, Australian National University In late 2007, a couple of months after our last HSC exam, one of my best friends ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NSW Premier Chris Minns has accused the opposition of ‘declaring war on mateship’. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer NSW Premier ...

The Ode of Remembrance is a verse I have committed to memory since I was at least 6 years old. And as I sit and write this, mere moments from the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, it is ...

Making an Olympic team was never meant to be easy but whoever pulls on the green and gold blazer as Australia’s lone male open water swimmer in Tokyo next year will certainly have one helluva journey ...

Two stranded sailors have been safely retrieved from a stricken yacht in a rescue operation off the New South Wales south coast. Early on Tuesday morning, emergency services made contact with the man ...