China's commerce ministry announced the resumption of quarantine inspections on Australian lobster imports, aiming to boost economic and trade cooperation between the two nations.

In separate agreements with Nauru, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Australia is attempting to edge out China’s influence in the region.

Australia has agreed to extradite a former Marines pilot who the U.S. has accused of training Chinese pilots more than a decade ago. Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus confirmed in a

Australia is working to verify the authenticity of a video that purportedly shows one of its nationals captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine.

Australia will provide over $100 million to the Solomon Islands to expand its police force so the Pacific Islands nation, which also has security ties with China, can reduce its reliance on external partners,

Australia will provide over $100 million to help the Solomon Islands, which also has security ties with China, expand its police force so it can reduce its reliance on external partners, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.

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Duggan is accused by the U.S. of training Chinese military pilots in landing on aircraft carriers in coordination with a South African flight school, which authorities said dated back to the early 2010s, according to an indictment dated from 2017 and unsealed two years ago.

Australia and its partners, chiefly the US, worry that such deals could potentially give China greater influence in a strategically significant region. Australia is Papua New Guinea’s largest ...

Australia has announced it will pay for more police in Solomon Islands and create a police training center in the South Pacific island nation’s capital Honiara, where Chinese law enforcement instructors are already based under a bilateral security pact with Beijing.

In an increasingly uncertain world, Malaysia cannot afford to take its defence relationship with Australia for granted.

Daniel Duggan’s lawyers have argued a lack of evidence and that he was no longer a US citizen at the time of the alleged offences.