With rising seas expected to submerge the nation by 2100, official says ‘we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears’Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastWhen Tuvalu vanishes beneath rising s…
Turtle concern: Australian businessman denies threatening to sell Conflict Islands to China
Ian Gowrie-Smith says he was frustrated the Australian government did not respond to urgent funding request for turtle conservationGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe owner of 21 tropical islands off the coast of Papu…
Billboards celebrating Hong Kong’s ‘new era’ to stay up in Australia despite complaints
Advertising standards regulator says content ‘falls outside our jurisdiction’ as opponents decry ‘cruel reminder’ of China’s crackdown on pro-democracy protestersGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastBillboards with a messa…
Myanmar shadow embassy opens in Canberra to champion Aung San Suu Kyi’s ousted government
Not far from the imposing, official embassy is a welcoming space in a rented house where Australian and Myanmar flags fly alongside symbols of the resistanceGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastIn Myanmar, a resistance arm…
Executed Myanmar activist visited Australia in 2012 to complete a political advisers’ course
Phyo Zeya Thaw met then prime minister Julia Gillard when he was brought to Australia by AusAidFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastPhyo Zeya Thaw hadn’t been out …
‘Abusing China’s restraint’: Beijing accuses Australia of provocation at sea
Global Times quotes comments by foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on military encounters in the South China SeaChina has accused Australia of provocation in the South China Sea and said Australia – along with the United States and Canada – must “r…
‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing
It is the ‘mystery that must be solved’ – seven-and-a-half years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people on boardSomewhere in the vast expanse of Earth’s oceans lies MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on 8 March…
Photos from ‘beyond the grave’: camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche
Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn’t so lucky. Now the mountain has given up some of its secretsWhen mountaineer Chris Hill found a backpack with an old camera in it on the Hooker Glacier …
Covid origins: Australia’s role in the feedback loop promoting the Wuhan lab leak theory
Blanket reporting in News Corp papers has been denigrated for relying on dubious sources – yet the theory itself has taken on new life“BAT MAN” screeched the headline in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on 28 April 2020. “Chinese scientists linked to virus pro…