投稿者: Ben Doherty
Malcolm Turnbull asks defence department official what Australia would do if the promised Virginia-class and Aukus-class submarines don’t arrive Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news p…
From Scott Morrison’s ‘on-water matters’ to the Albanese government’s MOU with Nauru, successive governments’ attitude to legitimate scrutiny has been one of hostilityGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOffshore, secrecy dominate…
Treaty will allow PNG nationals to gain Australian citizenship by serving in defence forces and comes as the country sits at the centre of a geopolitical battleAs Papua New Guinea prepares to mark 50 years as an independent nation next month, the count…
Alliance in best interests of Australia, UK and US, say lawmakers, after Trump administration announced 30-day review of pactAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Aukus pact is vital …
Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today’s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastHuddled on Afghanista…
The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the wavesMaybe Australia’s boats just never turn up.To fanfare and flags, the Aukus deal …
Claim over the 2019 Rennell Island disaster, which saw more than 300 tonnes of fuel leak into the water, filed in the Solomons High courtThe companies allegedly responsible for the one of the worst environmental disasters in Solomon Islands’ history ar…
Ishmael Toroama tells the Guardian sovereignty from Papua New Guinea is a ‘matter of time’ as long-running process enters next phase Ishmael Toroama’s life has been dominated by a single ambition. The president of Bougainville, an autonomous island tha…
Xavier Decramer and his family made a home in Nouméa but the eruption of violence has prompted them to leave ‘with a heavy heart’New Caledonia was only ever supposed to be a stopover, a pause on a family sailing trip around the world. “But we discovere…
Papua New Guinea’s immigration minister John Rosso says whistleblower’s ‘serious allegations’ revealed by the Guardian have prompted auditFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily…
Exclusive: Department claimed accommodation contracts with companies linked to Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani could not be cancelled – despite containing termination clausesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afte…
Manasseh Sogavare accuses Australia of pulling budget support amid continuing fallout from Honiara’s policing pact with BeijingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChina will “fill the gap” in Solomon Islands’ troubl…
More than 20,000 supporters are expected at a public rally for the Indian PM in Sydney this week. But critics will be just as stridentGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcasThe public events speak to Narendra Modi’s pop…
Beijing says US, Australia and New Zealand have ‘a cold war mentality’ and are driving up geopolitical tensionsAustralia budget 2023 live updates: federal treasurer Jim Chalmers to deliver budget speech tonight – latest newsGet our morning and afternoo…
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 NSW policeFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA…