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Indonesia has warned Australia over a series of breaches of its territorial waters and demanded the government stop turning boats back.

Australia has been accused of betraying Indonesia amid an outbreak in nationalist rhetoric in the wake of fresh spying allegations.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to comment on allegations Australian spies targeted the mobile phone of Indonesia's president and his confidants.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will persevere with controversial measures aimed at stopping the flow of asylum seeker boats to Australia

Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to have toned down his tough talk on the asylum-seeker issue after meeting the Indonesian president.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he wants to get Australia’s relationship with Indonesia right, but the opposition believes there’s a big problem.

A boat bound for Australia, carrying 120 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Indonesia, leaving 20 dead, mostly children.

For only the second time in the past six years, the Australian Navy intercepted a boat and handed the asylum seekers back to Indonesia.

The Abbott government insists it will honour its election promise to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat despite Indonesian opposition to its controversial plan to turn back vessels.

A strategy to stop asylum seeker boat arrivals is at the top of Tony Abbott’s to-do list for next week after his ministry is sworn in.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Tony Abbott’s plan to buy boats from Indonesian fishermen to stop them being used by people smugglers shows his lack of understanding, Jakarta says.

Reports suggest that convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is close to being released from her Balinese prison on parole.

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.

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.