Tag: Asia-Pacific region

This is to protect Australia’s neighbours and is in line with a commitment made by the PM at last month’s G7 Summit.

Four key Defence training facilities in the NT are to receive a $747-million update to help ADF remain battle ready, says PM.

Foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, has confirmed that Australia’s ambassador has been allowed to speak with Professor Sean Turnell.

Trade in the region has not escaped the pandemic’s impact, but will likely only contract by a modest 1.9 percent.

Britain’s International Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, visits Singapore and Vietnam to sign trade deals ahead of looming Brexit.

Former federal Labor leader Mark Latham has urged Prime Minister Julia Gillard to adopt the Coalition’s policy of sending boats carrying asylum seekers back into Indonesian waters in order to address the severity of the people smuggling issue.

Australian border protection authorities won’t yet recover the bodies of dead asylum seekers near Christmas Island.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has rejected Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s accusation that Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop had “embarrassed the nation” by claiming that the Indonesian government supported the Coalition’s policy to turn back the boats of asylum seekers if elected later this year.