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Australia will be left with no submarines if it abandons Aukus, senior defence official warns
Malcolm Turnbull asks defence department official what Australia would do if the promised Virginia-class and A…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian foreign policy, Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Nauru
A translation of the Nauruan president’s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade – but secrecy in Australia’s offshore policy is nothing new
From Scott Morrison’s ‘on-water matters’ to the Albanese government’s MOU with Nauru, successive governments’ …
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‘Diplomatic knife fight’ over PNG enters new phase with deepening Australia defence deal
Treaty will allow PNG nationals to gain Australian citizenship by serving in defence forces and comes as the c…
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Aukus vital to ‘deter Chinese aggression’, say US lawmakers, as Trump urged to recommit to submarine deal
Alliance in best interests of Australia, UK and US, say lawmakers, after Trump administration announced 30-day…
- Afghanistan, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Migration, Pakistan, Penny Wong, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped – Australia – to save his family
Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained docto…
- Asia Pacific, Aukus, Australia news, Australian foreign policy, Australian military, Donald Trump, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Trump administration, US military, US news
Surface tension: could the promised Aukus nuclear submarines simply never be handed over to Australia?
The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an i…
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Solomon Islands landowners seek compensation over catastrophic oil spill
Claim over the 2019 Rennell Island disaster, which saw more than 300 tonnes of fuel leak into the water, filed…
- Asia Pacific, Bougainville, Pacific islands, Pacific leaders: in their words, Papua New Guinea, World news
‘No one will stop our people’: Bougainville president defiant in push for independence
Ishmael Toroama tells the Guardian sovereignty from Papua New Guinea is a ‘matter of time’ as long-running pro…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, France, Indigenous peoples, New Caledonia, Pacific islands, World news
‘We’re really torn’: New Caledonia turmoil forces French nationals to sail to safety in Australia
Xavier Decramer and his family made a home in Nouméa but the eruption of violence has prompted them to leave ‘…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Papua New Guinea, Refugees
PNG to investigate corruption claims in Australia-funded refugee program
Papua New Guinea’s immigration minister John Rosso says whistleblower’s ‘serious allegations’ revealed by the …
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Home affairs may have misled Senate over Nauru contracts linked to man convicted over bribery
Exclusive: Department claimed accommodation contracts with companies linked to Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani cou…
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China to ‘fill the gap’ in Solomon Islands budget as PM blasts ‘unneighbourly’ Australia and US
Manasseh Sogavare accuses Australia of pulling budget support amid continuing fallout from Honiara’s policing …
- Anthony Albanese, Australia news, Australian foreign policy, Australian politics, India, Narendra Modi, South and Central Asia
Narendra Modi in Australia: a polarising leader meets a divided Indian diaspora
More than 20,000 supporters are expected at a public rally for the Indian PM in Sydney this week. But critics …
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China accuses Australia of trying to sabotage its relationships in Pacific region
Beijing says US, Australia and New Zealand have ‘a cold war mentality’ and are driving up geopolitical tension…
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Former SAS soldier arrested and charged in NSW for alleged war crime over killing of Afghan civilian
Oliver Schulz, 41, was arrested in the southern highlands of New South Wales by Australian federal police and …