The Seekers lead singer Judith Durham will be given an Australian state funeral following her death on 5 August. The 1960s folk singer died in Melbourne aged 79, after suffering complications from an ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tuvalu have accepted Australia’s help to fly representatives to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and other British Commonwealth ...

Australian police plan to ask a judge to ban gay rights protesters from demonstrating outside the funeral of Cardinal George Pell in Sydney on Thursday due to public safety concerns. Pell, who was ...

Ribbons and banners placed by protesters hang from the fence surrounding St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, where the body of Catholic Cardinal George Pell lay in state ...

A protester shouts slogans as policemen secure the area surrounding St. Mary's Cathedral during the funeral of late Australian Catholic Cardinal George Pell in Sydney ...