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A film charting Pat Farmer’s 4,600km dash across India piles on the platitudes, reducing an amazing odyssey to nippy travelogueThe Indian ascetic tradition can add another name to its ranks: former Australian parliamentary secretary and ultra-marathon …
Arrests come as Indonesian police ban demonstrations promoting separatismFour Australians who allegedly took part in a pro-independence demonstration in West Papua are being deported, Indonesian immigration authorities have said.The four Australians wi…
Prime minister backs Peter Dutton, saying he cannot ‘in good conscience’ allow family that had settled in Biloela to stayThe prime minister says he cannot “in good conscience” allow a Tamil couple and their Australian-born children facing deportation t…
Cantopop star says city has become a police state as young people fight for their lives “We are officially in a police state,” the Hong Kong Cantopop star and activist Denise Ho told a sold-out audience in Sydney on Sunday night.Speaking at the Sydney …
Some day, I hope to visit the country with my grandparents, whose belief in independence was always unshakableIn my family, the thought of Timor always lingered in the air.At birthday dinners, or Easter or Christmas with the cousins (like all Timorese,…
Thinktank says Australia won’t be able to avoid economic disruption if Chinese economy is forced into hard landingAustralia’s federal government must focus on building new free trade agreements and give up the dream of a budget surplus if the country i…
Australian citizen, potentially facing the death penalty on an espionage charge, begs PM to ‘please help me’Scott Morrison has called China’s allegation that an Australian writer detained in Beijing is a spy “absolutely untrue” after Yang Hengjun issue…
Marise Payne says arrest on spying charges does not appear to be retribution for any Australian policies to BeijingAustralia will continue to press for Yang Hengjun’s release, despite the Chinese government demanding Canberra stop interfering in the hi…
Canberra must tread cautiously amid the political instability, the peak union body tells a parliamentary committeeThe peak union body has urged the Morrison government to delay ratifying a free trade deal with Hong Kong amid human rights abuses and a v…
Aingimea takes office as Australia attempts to repeal medevac laws and Nauru accused of blocking medical care to refugeesNauru’s new president, Lionel Aingimea, says he will be like a “father of the nation”, guiding and protecting the South Pacific isl…
Singer Denise Ho and cartoonist Badiucao question National Gallery of Victoria’s decision to decline panel while hosting flagship China exhibitionThe National Gallery of Victoria has been accused by high profile activist Denise Ho and Chinese-Australia…
Lawyers and campaigners express anxiety for writer and former diplomat, who has been detained for seven monthsYang Hengjun was not a spy for Australia, foreign minister Marise Payne has insisted, after the Australian writer was formally charged with es…
Migration agent says housing and other economic factors are also driving residents to consider movingHong Kong’s continuing political unrest has led to a surge in applications from residents seeking to emigrate, including to Australia, and some migrati…
Medecins Sans Frontieres accuses Nauru of breaching medical ethicsA 36-year-old Pakistani refugee has been hospitalised after he set himself alight on Nauru on Friday.This comes amid warnings the government’s attempts to repeal the medevac laws could h…
Report says outlook in India is ‘finely balanced and uncertain’ despite resources industry’s high hopesThermal coal exporters face “significant risk” that demand from India will decline, a report by the Australian office of the chief economist says.It …