Australia

If the northeast Indian Ocean is of strategic interest to Australia, then the current economic and political crisis in Sri Lanka ought to be a pressing concern for Canberra. 

The previous conservative government approved in 2018 the prosecution of Bernard Collaery and his client, a former spy publicly known as Witness K.

Since 2016 India has leapfrogged both New Zealand and China to become the third largest country of birth in Australia after Australia itself and the United Kingdom. 

“... We are talking about nuclear propulsion, not nuclear weapons,” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Tuesday.

Canberra and New Delhi need to streamline their defense and security agenda on an accelerated pace in the face of pressure on both from Beijing.

If the Liberal Party wants to find its way back to government it needs to abandon the attempt to define an “authentic” class of Australians, and instead simply see people as people. 

The foreign ministers of Australia and China were both making their final stops Friday on what has become an island-hopping diplomatic duel in the South Pacific.

Out of the wreckage of Morrison’s Liberal rule comes a new political era for Australia.

"We're very aware of what the Chinese government's ambitions are in the Pacific,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

There is opportunity for First Nations peoples to play a far greater role in Australia’s foreign policy.

Old anxieties about Australia’s vulnerabilities remain relatively unchanged, but the new geopolitical order is fundamentally different. 

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews suggested China’s announcement of a deal with the Solomon Islands was deliberately timed to undermine the Liberal Party’s re-election prospects.