カテゴリー: Australian foreign policy
Immigration minister previously announced places for Afghan nationals within existing visa program in move critics call ‘mean and tricky’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe immigration minister, Alex Hawke, has been urged to heed A…
Twenty-three sailors on HMAS Adelaide test positive as Peter Dutton says boat will be kept at sea to ensure no threat to the Pacific nationFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingTh…
Morrison government promised Tongans Covid-safe humanitarian relief after volcanic eruption and tsunamiGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingTonga has turned back an aid flight from Australia due to a positive Covid case on board, despit…
Morrison government promised Tongans Covid-safe humanitarian relief after volcanic eruption and tsunamiGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingTonga has turned back an aid flight from Australia due to a positive Covid case on board, despit…
Yang Hengjun was arrested in 2019 on espionage charges and his supporters fear he will be left to die of ‘medical neglect’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralian writer and democracy activist Dr Yang Hengjun’s health is failing …
Senator Rex Patrick says release of decades-old cabinet papers won’t further damage Timor relationship after spying and prosecution of Witness K and Bernard CollaeryGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blo…
Exclusive: Acting ambassador to Australia, Wang Xining, says politicians including Peter Dutton and Tony Abbott are not serving Australia’s interestsDownload the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefingA top Chinese diplomat has likened Austra…
Marise Payne says she regrets France’s ‘deep disappointment’, as tension with Indonesia over Aukus deal revealedGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralia’s foreign minister will meet with the French ambassador next week in an attem…
Louise Ho says activity undermines China’s trade restrictions against Australia and she will ‘pursue it diligently’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingRampant smuggling of Australian rock lobsters into mainland China is a national secu…
Details are deficient, scientific analysis contentious and expert voices missing in Markson’s thesis about ‘what really happened’ in China, which establishes a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology With 4.55 million deaths from the Covid-1…
Former Australian prime minister, who has said China is ‘asserting itself aggressively’, will meet Taiwanese president and foreign ministerGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has arrived…
Revelations that Australia knew about atrocities by Indonesian military but did nothing are ‘deeply disturbing’, Human Rights Watch says• Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingHuman rights groups say revelations that Australia sat on its…
Jean-Pierre Thebault was angry about Aukus as he left Australia on Saturday night, saying: ‘It’s like in a couple, you know, when you commit … you don’t run away’Australia ‘regrets’ France’s recall of ambassadorGet our free news app; get our morning em…
Dfat timeline shows Marise Payne received formal advice to shutter embassy five days before meeting with then-president Ashraf GhaniGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingDefence and intelligence chiefs warned the Australian government mu…
Mohammad Zaman Khadimi was forced to make an impossible choice as he fled the Taliban for sanctuary in AustraliaOn an August morning, Mohammad Zaman Khadimi walked out of class and into a world entirely changed.“I heard the news that the Taliban were c…