投稿者: Daniel Hurst
Labor’s Penny Wong says it’s disappointing the Australian prime minister did not secure a private meeting with the US presidentScott Morrison has met with Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit and agreed to work closely on challenges in the incre…
Australia and New Zealand welcome sanctions on China over Uighur abuses but impose none of their own
Chinese embassy accuses Canberra of ‘despicable smearing’ of China after Australian foreign minister raises ‘grave concerns’ about human rightsAustralia and New Zealand have raised “grave concerns” about human rights abuses against Muslim minorities in…
Independent Rex Patrick moves after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the NetherlandsAn Australian senator will seek support from fellow upper house members to recognise China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority as genocide, afte…
Calls renewed for humane treatment of news anchor after arrest ‘on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas’ Chinese authorities have formally arrested the detained Australian citizen Cheng Lei “on suspicion of illegally supplying state …
A new program will help countries in the Mekong region tackle drug and human trafficking, child sexual exploitation and financial crimesAustralia will ramp up its efforts to help south-east Asian countries fight serious crime, as it seeks to build infl…
Australia ‘monitoring developments’ as Taiwan reports an increase in Chinese aircraft in its defence zone Australian military ships and aircraft will continue to patrol the South China Sea amid warnings from China that a declaration of independence by …
Foreign minister Marise Payne issues mild statement, but opposition parties attack China’s ‘unacceptable’ actions and ‘paranoia’NSW hotspots; Victoria hotspotsFollow the Australia live blogAllowing fans at Sydney Test for mental health ‘laughable’Greg …
Australia, whose early call for inquiry sparked furious Chinese response, says it expects ‘robust, independent and comprehensive’ reportAustralia is pushing to ensure the global inquiry it helped trigger into the early handling of the Covid-19 pandemic…
Economic decoupling from China would be ‘act of national self-sabotage’, Labor and Liberal MPs agree
Tim Watts and Dave Sharma also say Chinese Australian communities are assets and warn against ‘descent into McCarthyism’Australia would be shooting itself in the foot if it tried to untangle itself from economic reliance on China, politicians from both…
Additional sanctions are rumours, Simon Birmingham says, but the China Daily warns of further economic pain if Australia is hostile to BeijingA major Australian business group has called on the Morrison government to take China to the world trade umpir…
Australian wine exporters have reportedly suspended shipments amid fears officials in Beijing are about to bar a range of goodsThe Morrison government has accused China of heightening trade risks and breaching Xi Jinping’s own public pledges as a range…
Geoff Raby argues the suggestion Australia can turn to other markets is ‘nothing other than wishful thinking’Australia is likely to keep suffering economic harm from “repeated rounds of Chinese economic coercion” and needs to find a way to reset the re…
Official told Matthew Carney she would be taken to undisclosed location over alleged visa breachAn ABC journalist has broken his silence on how he and his family were intimidated by Chinese authorities in 2018, including a warning that his 14-year-old …
Canberra company recovered vast trove of information from corrupted China filesWhen a group of international media organisations this week revealed details of a Chinese tech company’s vast database profiling millions of people around the globe, it was …
Allies release joint statement of ‘deep concern’ over China’s actions in Hong Kong and repression of Uighurs and vow to fight disinformationAustralia has pledged to increase defence cooperation with the US in the South China Sea – but stopped short of …