カテゴリー: Australian politics
Foreign minister Penny Wong visits Fiji this week to progress the security and economic agreementFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia looks close to signing a landmar…
Australia’s strength has never come from purity tests or cultural fear. It has come from beautiful human overlapIn my tough early days in Melbourne, when everything still felt slightly unreal, I was introduced to Suzy through a cricket magazine editor …
Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ yet still signing $2.5bn deportation dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news pod…
In newly translated excerpts of a February interview, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has begun deporting to his country are not refugeesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or dai…
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…
US president tells reporters he and Australian PM ‘working on a lot of things together’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter waiting a long time to meet Donald Trump, Ant…
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip mealsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or d…
Defence official says major increase in Australian defence spending is ‘quite warranted’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSome US military stakeholders have “very serious concerns” about the Aukus arrangement but the Pentagon w…
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…
Surangel Whipps Jr also strongly backs Australia’s bid to host a UN climate conferenceElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe president of Palau has delivered a …
The new Indonesian president – who came to office with a questionable human rights record – has emerged as an unlikely champion for a prisoner swap dealGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn the dark of the early morning of 29 Ap…
The independent member for Goldstein, Zoe Daniel, asks the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, what the government is doing to bring home the bodies of Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, two Melbourne teenagers who died in a mass methanol poisoning incident …
China-Australia relations have achieved ‘a turnaround and are maintaining a positive momentum of development’, Chinese president Xi Jinping says. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese says he is pleased to meet with Xi again, while highlighting th…
Anthony Albanese told journalists to ‘chill out’ over the comments filmed in the wings of the Pacific Islands ForumFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian prime min…
The Tongan prime minister, Hu’akavemeiliku Siaosi Sovaleni, and the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, spoke at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, after Pacific island leaders agreed to back a regional policing plan that will see…