Australia’s gaffe-prone prime minister took back his second Nazi-related comment in a month after he compared the opposition party leader to German World War II-era propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

"The English made the laws, the Scots made the money and the Irish made the songs."

Australia's prime minister laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in Sydney today for the victims of the cafe gun siege which left three people dead.

Authorities are confident that a series of underwater signals detected in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean are coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, Australia’s prime minister has said.