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…
Australian academic Sean Turnell sentenced to three years’ jail after secret trial in Myanmar
Economic adviser to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was accused by military leaders of having confidential papersAung San Suu Kyi and the Australian academic Sean Turnell who served as her advisor have been sentenced to three years in prison after a clo…
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…
I never saw plays about people like me on Australian stages. Writing my own has shown me a good story connects with everyone | Saman Shad
Audiences appreciate seeing a difference slice of life and will lose themselves in the story – you just need to give them the chanceThere’s a moment in my play when one of the characters Bill is trying to convince the protagonist Nas to go away on a ho…
Two years after the fire, Moria refugee camp’s legacy still leaves its mark
Many of those housed in the notorious refugee camp remain on Lesbos, while others have managed to rebuild new livesTwo years have elapsed since the huge Moria fire gutted what became known as Europe’s most notorious refugee camp. Squalid, gargantuan an…
Solomon Islands refuses Australia’s offer to help fund election as ‘foreign interference’
Manasseh Sogavare calls Australia’s offer ‘an assault on our parliamentary democracy’ after saying his country had to delay elections because of costFollow the day’s news, liveGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe prime…
Chinese ambassador would ‘love’ to see Anthony Albanese meet Xi Jinping without preconditions
Xiao Qian says Canberra and Beijing have ‘good momentum but we need to keep the momentum’Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastChina’s ambassador to Australia has suggested the leaders of the two countries might meet withou…
Tim Page obituary
War photographer who served as a fearless witness to the escalation of hostilities in Vietnam in the 1960sTim Page, who has died of cancer aged 78, earned a reputation during the Vietnam war as a fearless gonzo combat photographer who would venture whe…
Bali bomb maker Umar Patek claims it was a ‘mistake’ to be involved in the attacks
Ahead of his expected early release, Umar Patek takes part in an interview from prison, saying he hopes to deter millennials from the ‘radicalism virus’Bali bomb maker Umar Patek has claimed it was a “mistake” to become involved in the 2002 attacks tha…
Court lashes Kiribati government over treatment of Australian-born judge
Kiribati’s court of appeal said government’s latest bid to deport high court justice David Lambourne on national security grounds was ‘far-fetched’Kiribati’s constitutional crisis is no closer to resolution, with the country’s court of appeal criticisi…
Solomon Islands to ban foreign journalists who are not ‘respectful’ – report
PM office says journalists cannot operate in the Pacific as they do in other countries, accusing Australia’s ABC of ‘racial profiling’ in China coverage The Solomon Islands government has reportedly threatened to ban foreign journalists from entering t…
China’s economy is losing momentum. What is happening and why does it matter for Australia?
Clouds are gathering over the economic powerhouse as Covid lockdowns, a distressed property market and population changes take a tollGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastChina, the world’s second-biggest economy, is in a r…
Timor-Leste warns it will work with China if Australia insists on pumping Timor Sea gas to Darwin
Exclusive: President José Ramos-Horta says his country’s leadership ‘has to make decisions … if necessary a trip to China’Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastTimor-Leste’s president, José Ramos-Horta, has warned his natio…
Bali bomb maker Umar Patek could be released early from Indonesian jail
Early release of ex-member of terror group linked to al-Qaida will cause distress for bereaved, says Australian PMUmar Patek, the bomb maker who helped assemble the devices used in the 2002 bombing in Bali, could walk free early from prison this year.T…
Freeing of terrorist who killed Australian soldiers shows how the US gave Taliban leverage despite allies’ objections | Ahmad Shuja Jamal
Many prisoners released under the US-Taliban deal took up arms again and then overran KabulGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastMany of the Taliban freed under the Doha Agreement took up arms, providing a deadly illustrati…