“Australia” on The Daily Caller

Does anyone else notice the eerie similarities between Julian Assange and Bill Clinton? Aside from the anti-American attitudes they both share, Assange exposed U.S. national security secrets, as did Clinton while he was president. Both were undone by claims of various forms of sexual harassment, which, however disturbing, were minor compared to the subversive activities in which they were routinely engaged. Both are self-aggrandizing, needy narcissists who require power in order to bed women. And both victimized Hillary Clinton. (more)

BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) – The Australian government Wednesday blamed the United States, not the WikiLeaks founder, for the unauthorized release of about 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables and said those who originally leaked the documents were legally liable. (more)

SYDNEY (AP) — Oprah Winfrey joined 300 eager audience members Wednesday in Australia, where they were flown in for an action-packed, Down Under adventure including close encounters with kangaroos, surfing lessons and a journey to the remote and dusty Outback. (more)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Attackers wielding bats or clubs slaughtered two dozen fur seals, including newborn pups, over several days at one of New Zealand’s most popular sanctuaries for watching the animals, officials said Monday. (more)

In America, you probably know her as Portia de Rossi, but in my town, Geelong, she’s also known as Amanda Lee Rogers, born January 31, 1973. “Married” to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, the Generation X star and vegan lesbian, however, seems more Hollywood than regional Australian. (more)

During his visit to New Delhi, President Obama gave the finishing touches to a ‘shared vision’ with India with regard to the Central Asia and Asia-Pacific regions. (more)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a pair of Australian radio hosts that she doesn’t want the global perception of America to be from the Kardashians and professional wrestling. (more)

John Travolta and Kelly Preston have chosen a name for their soon-to-be born baby boy: It’s Benjamin! (more)

MUMBAI, India (AP) — The first elections in military-ruled Myanmar in 20 years were “neither free nor fair,” President Barack Obama said Sunday. (more)

Do yourself a favor and don’t even bother going to the movies this November. Read more about why pretty much every movie coming out this month will suck below. (more)

If all goes according to plan next month, Geraldo Rivera, John Stossel, and Ned Flanders will all find their lip-brows well within the mainstream. (more)

Setting off speculation that China is manipulating exports to punish certain trade partners, Beijing announced in July it was slashing its six-month export quota of so-called ‘rare earth’ by 72 percent. Speculation continued this week with reports of an expanding embargo of the minerals. (more)

Unemployment remains high, with Washington politicians clamoring for job creation.  China is ever more confident, challenging the U.S. economically and politically.  The People’s Republic of China (PRC) even has displaced America as the number one trading partner of such leading East Asian states as South Korea. (more)

Greg Norman is engaged to Kirsten Kutner — the woman with whom Norman’s first wife, Laura Andrassy, claims he had an affair while she was married to the golf great. Andrassy told Australia’s Daily Telegraph that she learned of their affair when she overheard a conversation between him and Kutner in the early ’90s. (more)

From the standpoint of popular culture, drinking during pregnancy is the equivalent of playing Russian roulette with your fetus. Any woman daring to consume a single glass of wine in public risks being construed as the most unnaturally selfish of mothers. Even as recent studies suggest that science refuses to conclude the case, we cling to the prohibition in a way that precludes discussion. But perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising—our reasons may have as much to do with the distinctive morality of pregnancy as they do with science. (more)

It is every television host’s worst nightmare. (more)

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald’s spotted them wrestling a 5-foot (1.5 meter) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police said Thursday. Victoria state police said the men stole the 8-year-old black-headed python and a lizard from a pet shop on Wednesday. They then brought the snake to the McDonald’s parking lot, where they began wrestling with it in front of puzzled customers, police said. (more)

SYDNEY (AP) — An 11-year-old boy was recovering Saturday after a sea lion mauled him at a popular Sydney zoo’s aquarium show as horrified visitors looked on. (more)

SYDNEY (AP) — Actor Paul Hogan, star of the “Crocodile Dundee” movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia because of a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said Friday. (more)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The reclusive New Zealand billionaire buying the U.S. maker of Hefty brand trash bags to create the world’s second-biggest packaging business started out as a tow truck driver and bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy more than a decade ago to become his country’s richest person. (more)