China is intensifying its efforts to expand its influence in the Pacific and stymie a $500 million treaty deal between Australia and Vanuatu.
With university enrolments in South-East Asian languages in freefall,Labor is investing in the migrant-run weekend schools that have kept these tongues alive.
For too long,gas companies have got away with paying a pittance for what they send overseas. It’s time for the government to act.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirmed the breakthrough after a day of meetings in Beijing,including one disrupted by Chinese officials attempting to remove the media.
News that a group of four women and nine children have arrived in Damascus and hope to fly to Australia within days has added urgency to the question of how the group should be dealt with.
The prime minister has used Australia’s food exports in a bid to boost fuel and fertiliser imports,as up to half of the nation’s grain growers may not plant a crop this season due to unprecedented price rises.
Australia will join a summit organised by France and Britain,but excluding the US,to organise a coalition to safeguard shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
The IMF’s report on the economic impact of the Middle East conflict is chilling – but it ignores the massive cost in human lives and the untold damage to infrastructure.
The government for the first time acknowledged the potential benefit of Australians working from home and cutting back on fuel consumption.
As the Albanese government avoids alarm,the International Energy Agency issued a global plea for countries to take some drastic actions on Friday.