Oceania

The result confirmed that the Labor Party’s chief rival, the Liberal Party, is now deeply unpopular in the state.

To resist bullying is only “hawkish” if you sympathize with the bullies.

The gap between how human rights groups view incarcerated people, and how governments in Australia view them, continues to be wide. 

After seeing overwhelming support for Bougainville independence in a 2019 referendum, there is some frustration over perceived foot-dragging by PNG.

Anthony Albanese described his first in-person meeting with Xi Jinping as “successful” and “positive.”

New Zealand’s independent foreign policy is back. That’s a key underlying message from Jacinda Ardern’s trip this week to Southeast Asia.

It may be a massive leap for Australia to jump beyond its current linguistic lassitude, but the increasingly difficult strategic terrain requires Canberra to think big and be bold. 

Since becoming New Zealand’s prime minister, she has not attended a U.N. climate change conference, or visited the Middle East. She could do both by traveling to Egypt later this month.

The Medibank hack, impacting 4 million people, was the latest in a string of high-profile data breaches involving Australian firms.

The murder of 15-year-old Cassius Turvey is not just a tragedy; “sadly, it is a pattern.”

Over 90,000 people packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground to watch a cricket game between India and Pakistan.