Oceania

A new report claims that palm oil executives in PNG have bribed officials, paid police to brutalize villagers, used child labor, and participated in an apparent tax evasion scheme.

Abbott’s visit may have been counterproductive both for Taiwan itself and for Taiwan’s support in Australia.

The two "strategic cousins" could grow closer as a result of their shared frictions with an increasingly assertive China.

Former Australian Prime Minister Turnbull put it well: “If we want to have influence in our region we must be trusted. Our word must be our bond.”

An Australian spy’s lawyer stands accused of conspiring with his client to communicate information to East Timor about an espionage operation.

Australia will slowly start to reopen its borders to skilled migrants and international students. Tourists will have to keep waiting.

An EU official said the submarine row played a role in the decision to delay this month’s talks but insisted a deal was not ready to be sealed in any case

The violent protests prove that Australia shouldn’t be complacent about the effect of misinformation and disinformation on the country’s social stability.

The World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest is among four national parks to be handed back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people.

How a faulty geographical mindset is leading policymakers astray in the region.

Chinese aid to the Pacific shrank by 31 percent in 2019 to $169 million, the Lowy Institute said.