Offering safe harbour to fleeing Afghans is the compassionate thing to do. But it’s also strategically important that we do so.
Australia’s Asian neighbours no longer view its alliance with the US as a handicap.
What may have seemed like an organic social media campaign against the BBC was,in fact,a highly organised effort by vested interests to spread misinformation.
More than half a million doses have been delivered to Fiji,which is racing to innoculate its population amid a serious outbreak of the fast-spreading Delta strain.
For many of Australia’s neighbours,the vaccine that many of us reject is their only viable option.
Tse Chi Lop,who has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman,is fighting extradition to Australia,saying he would not get a fair trial.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussed the deeper military cooperation with United States President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Group of 7 summit in Britain.
It is the long tail of the now-abolished One-Child Policy that has driven the result in the world’s most populous country. The coronavirus also played its part.
The body is believed to be that of a Filipino fisherman who went missing from a UK-flagged tanker on April 11.
It faces a multitrillion-dollar bill or an overhaul of its fertility and retirement systems.
Australian businesses have produced a plan for a high-level trade mission to China,but political tensions between the two nations present some difficulties.