カテゴリー: Australian foreign policy
Garry Ridder, a 78-year-old from Cooma, says he missed out despite the government prioritising the elderly, young and vulnerableA 78-year-old Australian man trapped in Wuhan says he feels like a “throwaway citizen” after being rejected for the governme…
Australian citizens, permanent residents and their immediate family are exempt from the ban, which was due to expire on SaturdayThe Australian government has extended its travel ban on people who have travelled through China by another week, Scott Morr…
Some people trying to get out of the coronavirus epicentre are concerned at government’s ‘poor communication’Australians stranded in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they have been frustrated and “kept in the dark” by the government’s poor communication a…
Cheng Jingye also says detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun’s rights are being protectedChina’s ambassador to Australia has labelled reports that one million Uighurs are being held in detention “fake news”, seeking to excuse mass incarceration as a …
Rushan Abbas says countries doing business with China are enabling its mass detention of 3 million people, including her sisterA leading Uighur activist, Rushan Abbas, has urged Australian MPs to take a stronger stance against the Chinese regime, while…
Australian teacher thanks those who helped free him and says he formed tight bonds with some of his captorsFreed Taliban hostage Timothy Weeks says he never gave up hope he would be rescued during three “long and tortuous” years in captivity in Afghani…
Wagga Wagga man held captive in Afghanistan for three years landed at Sydney airport on Thursday nightAustralian teacher Timothy Weeks, held captive by the Taliban for three years after being abducted at gunpoint in Kabul, has returned home to Australi…
State-run media says defector who alleged Chinese interference in Australia is ‘spouting nonsense’Chinese state-run media outlet Global Times has published a video purporting to show self-declared Chinese spy Wang Liqiang confessing to fraud and pleadi…
Marise Payne repeats calls for China to end arbitrary detention after internal documents reveal Xi Jinping’s call to ‘show no mercy’ in XinjiangAustralia’s foreign affairs minister has labelled new details of China’s mass internment of Uighurs “disturb…
Scott Morrison says 15-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would be ‘bigger and better’ with India in itAustralia will sign on to a major free-trade deal involving 15 countries from the Asia-Pacific region, albeit one diminished by Indi…
Exclusive: Democracy advocate suffers from serious health conditions and is only allowed one shower a weekDetained Australian writer Dr Yang Hengjun has insisted he is innocent of the espionage allegations made against him and told Chinese authorities …
Beijing should substantially reform its lending practices, Lowy Institute saysChina has not engaged in deliberate “debt-trap diplomacy” in the Pacific, but the burgeoning scale of China’s lending, and institutional weakness within Pacific states, pose …
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…
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…