Oceania

Protesters called for Australia Day – bitterly referred to as “Invasion Day” – to be abolished.

Australia is noted in the document not nearly as often as Japan, South Korea, or India, but that likely underscores the already tight relations between the two countries.

Named after the U.S. president-elect, the world-traveler is now at the mercy of Australia's strict quarantine service.

The growing cost of sub-standard climate policies on Australia’s international standing may soon outweigh any domestic political gains.

The emergence of a much more contagious variant of COVID-19 comes as Australia rolls out vaccines. 

Canberra long assumed it could work with any party in Washington – but is that still true after Trump?

Yes, the potential sale of Digicel to China is concerning. But Australia should think twice before swooping in on the troubled company.

Beyond environmental questions, the project’s long term and more troubling impact may be the altering of the political conditions on the frozen continent.

The category five cyclone battered Fiji in mid-December.

A market the size of China’s is almost impossible to replace, but Australia can look elsewhere in Asia for a promising emerging economy.

With a food crisis looming, some in the Pacific are turning back to traditional small scale home farming.