You ever feel like, as an Americano, that the only politicians to consistently humiliate themselves are ours? The only ones to be caught with their pants around their ankles and suffer for it are lovers of seven red stripes, six white stripes and a mess of stars. Does it even bother people from Norway or Croatia if their president, prime minister or premier cheats on his wife? Would Silvio Berlusconi's shenannies be tolerated in the US? Would we put up with Sarkozy's divorce and quickie marriage to Carla Bruni? And wouldn't we have voted Putin out years ago … Read More

Miley Cyrus may be Twittering deliriously about how in love she is with new flame Liam Hemsworth, but her bliss has left someone out in the cold—Liam's girlfriend, back home in Australia. The heartbroken lass, Laura Griffin, tells Australia's Woman's Day magazine that she thought the photos of Miley and Liam making out were part of filming The Last Song, until further snaps of them snogging off-set showed up.

"He was my boyfriend and my best friend," Laura says, going on to blame Miley for coming between them: "There is no other reason why we would … Read More

OK, just so we're on the same page with this Australian naval sex contest, I will do my absolute best to refrain from using the following terms: "down under," "seamen" and "coxswain." Thank you for your understanding. 

According to the Sidney Morning Herald, members of the Australian Navy placed wagers on how many and which female crew members they could have sex with.

Female sailors on the HMAS (Her Majesty's Australian Ship) Success (aptly named, one would guess) became quite concerned regarding the existence of tome called "The Ledger" that detailed the alleged sexual conquests of the sailors in … Read More

Pink may refer to her almost ex-husband, motocross racer Carey Hart as a "tool" in her hit song "So What"  but that was so 2008. That's when the on-again, off-again duo were taking a hiatus from their marriage.  They've since called the divorce proceedings off and are back to dating bliss.  Pink and Carey have even headed down under for the next 14 weeks together. According to People, Pink is in Australia on tour so Carey coordinated his own performance schedule so they can be in the same cities at the same time. "It took us seven … Read More

With many of our favorite TV shows wrapping up for the season, we're stocking up on DVDs of new series to sate us until our beloveds return in the fall. McLeod's Daughters was a hit series in Australia for eight seasons running. One lucky YourTango user has already won a set of the show's season-eight DVDs. We have four sets left to give away and four different ways to win them.

Please contribute your comments, advice or community blog posts by midnight EST on Tuesday, May 26 for your chance to win the final season of this women-ruling-the-ranch series. The best … Read More

Is she? Isn't she? Are they trying? How long have they been trying? Is there a curse? All reasonable questions when it comes to new offspring in Nicole Kidman's future.

According to I'm Not Obsessed, the Australian ginger is with child. Apparently, the actress was sporting what resembled a baby bump and kept her hands in the region of said tummy while doing promo work for Australia in Japan.

But according to Fametastic, her representatives have quashed these rumors.  Sometimes women are just a little gassy, aight? And sometimes women are a little appendicitis-y. … Read More

Awesome and awesomer. According to Digital Spy, the Australian actor Hugh Jackman has a touch of kink (or pragmatism) in him. While he has played a bevy of heavies (Van Helsing, the tough neck from Australia, Billy Bigelow in the Tony-winning play Carousel and Leopold of Kate & Leopold) but is best known to American audiences as Wolverine.

Wolverine (also known as Logan and Weapon X) is a mutant with the power to recover from injuries and has foot-long metal claws that are deployed from the backs of his hands. And the Australian actor stays in character (fine, … Read More

Today's weird sex news comes from Australia, where police are hunting for a man who broke into three sex shops, had sex with a blow-up doll named "Jungle Jane," and left the dolls in an alley near the stores. To perform his unusual crime, the man broke holes in the walls of the store and squeezed through the small opening. Instead of leaving pieces of wood and plaster everywhere, the polite fellow cleaned up the mess he created breaking through the wall. A shop owner expressed worry:

"It is totally bizarre. It is a real concern that someone like … Read More

According to a story in today's Channelnewsasia.com, a 47-year-old Australian engineer named Satish Narayan awoke on December 8 to a warm feeling in his trousers that could be attributed to none of the usual or fun activities typically associated with the marital bed.

Rather, the warmth he experienced was a literal case of pants of fire.

His wife, Rajini Narayan, who appeared in court today on murder charges, allegedly doused his genitals with methylated spirits and set them on fire because she believed he was cheating on her.

Prosecutors say she wanted to burn her 47-year-old husband's penis "so it belongs … Read More

It appears that the healing fertility waters of Kununurra may have to outdo themselves in the near future. While promoting the film Australia (we think it's about Vienna), Nicole Kidman and the 11th Sexiest Man Alive (so says YourTango) Hugh Jackman went on German TV and Kidman played the didgeridoo, reports Celebutopia. The didgeridoo is a wooden trumpet-like instrument played by Australia's Aborigines. They believe the instrument should only be played by men (like the saxophone in America) and that a woman will go barren if she's to play the massive pipe.

In the Aboriginal … Read More