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Columns

It’s good to talk, but Australia and China are worlds apart

17 Nov 2018 - 8:15am 39

Australian PM Scott Morrison signals an end to Canberra’s China resets

2 Nov 2018 - 9:20am 3

Asian Angle Hari Raj

Is Australia really that racist?

23 Oct 2018 - 5:29pm 63

Asian Angle Victor Kattan

Australia could risk a boomerang effect over Jerusalem

19 Oct 2018 - 7:36am 3

More on China-Australia relations

Opinion

Australia’s crucial role in preventing a Sino-American cold war in Asia

8 Dec, 10:52pm 11

Geopolitics

Australia to bury hatchet with China – in fence between Beijing and Washington

17 Nov, 2:00pm 43

People

How China’s middle class migrants challenge Australian fears

17 Nov, 12:50pm 76

Opinion

It’s good to talk, but Australia and China are worlds apart

17 Nov, 8:15am 39

Diplomacy

China-Australia rivalry surrounds Apec talks in Papua New Guinea

15 Nov, 11:01pm 11

More on New Zealand

Australasia

New Zealand embraces medical marijuana with new law

11 Dec, 3:35pm

Australasia

New Zealand PM apologises to family of murdered British tourist

10 Dec, 10:52pm 11

Australasia

New Zealand police may have found body of British backpacker

9 Dec, 11:14pm 8

Australasia

New Zealand police charge man with murder of British backpacker

8 Dec, 10:04pm

Gear

Huawei agrees to UK security steps to avoid 5G ban: report

7 Dec, 8:46pm 11

Gear

Huawei CFO’s arrest poses a threat to China’s 5G ambitions

12 Dec, 8:53pm 9

Australasia

New Zealand identifies climate change as its main security threat

6 Dec, 7:39pm

More on Climate change

Politics

China accuses rich countries of reneging on climate promises

14 Dec, 11:11pm 5

Australasia

Pacific nations urge Australia to abandon coal power in 12 years

14 Dec, 7:54pm 1

Health & Environment

Lack of ‘champion’ affecting climate change action, report warns

14 Dec, 9:30am 1

Australasia

‘We face extinction’: island nations urge immediate climate action

14 Dec, 5:52am 3

Letters

Taking the fight to the green elites: from ‘yellow vests’ to Australia

13 Dec, 11:04am 1

Letters

Why now is the time to tackle the climate crisis

10 Dec, 3:22pm

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Canberra. Pacific Island leaders have called on the regional neighbour to stop using in coal power. Photo: EPA

Pacific nations urge Australia to abandon coal power in 12 years

More than a dozen island countries have warned that Australia’s relations in the region were being eroded by its continued use and expansion of coal power plants

14 Dec 2018 - 7:54pm 1 More on Climate change

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The Marshall Islands are among the many island nations at risk from climate change. Photo: Alamy

‘We face extinction’: island nations urge immediate climate action

14 Dec 2018 - 5:52am 3

102-year-old Australian great-grandmother poised to become world’s oldest skydiver

102-year-old Australian poised to become world’s oldest skydiver

12 Dec 2018 - 11:47pm

Cardinal George Pell is facing prosecution for historical child sexual offences. Photo: AFP

Scandal-hit Australian cardinal removed from Pope’s inner circle

12 Dec 2018 - 11:23pm

The law would also pave the way for New Zealand companies to manufacture medicinal cannabis products for both the local and international market. Photo: Reuters

New Zealand embraces medical marijuana with new law

11 Dec 2018 - 3:35pm

A 2014 file picture shows asylum seekers behind a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. Photo: EPA

Detained refugees accuse Australia of torture in class action lawsuits

10 Dec 2018 - 6:02pm 1

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Xinhua

Japan’s aid to Marshall Islands is latest pushback against China

10 Dec 2018 - 10:52pm 18

Grace Millane. Photo: Twitter

New Zealand PM apologises to family of murdered British tourist

10 Dec 2018 - 10:52pm 11

The first of two F-35A Joint Strike Fighters arrives at Williamtown RAAF base outside Newcastle, Australia. Photo: EPA

Australia’s first F-35A fighter jets arrive but doubts about cost persist

10 Dec 2018 - 10:52pm 9

Grace Millane has been missing since December 1. Photo: Facebook

New Zealand police may have found body of British backpacker

9 Dec 2018 - 11:14pm 8

British 22-year-old Grace Millane was last heard from on December 1. Photo: Facebook

New Zealand police charge man with murder of British backpacker

8 Dec 2018 - 10:04pm

File photo of Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo

Marshall Islands fisherman nets US$4 million cocaine haul

8 Dec 2018 - 10:04pm

File photo of Qantas planes at Sydney’s international airport. Photo: Reuters

Qantas ‘Grinch act’ asks staff to work extra for free over Christmas

8 Dec 2018 - 10:04pm

A diver inspects giant corals in the Great Barrier Reef region for the Queensland. Photo: Reuters

Scientists say they discovered Great Barrier Reef’s most diverse site

7 Dec 2018 - 10:53pm

In this Thursday, November 29, 2018, image from video, Hakeem Al-Araibi speaks at Bangkok International Airport, Thailand. Australian officials raised with Thai authorities the plight of the Australia-based refugee professional soccer player who was detained in Bangkok and fears deportation to his native Bahrain, Australia's foreign minister said Friday, November 30, 2018. Rights groups are urging Thai authorities not to deport Al-Araibi to his homeland, where he faces imprisonment for what his supporters say are political reasons. Al-Araibi was detained at the airport on Tuesday. (SBS via AP)

‘I know I will be tortured’: Bahraini dissident in Thai jail pleads to UN

7 Dec 2018 - 6:27pm 1

Former Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson. Photo: EPA

Australian archbishop cleared of child sex abuse cover-up

7 Dec 2018 - 2:50am

Australia has become the first western country to pass a bill forcing tech companies to hand over your encrypted data

Australia passes bill forcing tech giants to hand over encrypted data

6 Dec 2018 - 9:43pm 5

The bettong, a truffle-eating Australian marsupial known as the “rat kangaroo”. Photo: AFP

Australian ‘rat kangaroo’ lives on truffles but faces extinction

6 Dec 2018 - 3:06pm

A woman views the Mueller Glacier in New Zealand’s Mount Cook National Park. Photo: AP

New Zealand identifies climate change as its main security threat

6 Dec 2018 - 7:39pm

Armed police preparing to go on patrol. Photo: AFP

PNG tribes have always fought – but now they have machine guns

6 Dec 2018 - 9:43pm

Associate Professor Anne-Marie Brady. Photo: University of Canterbury

New Zealand professor who wrote about Chinese influence seeks protection

6 Dec 2018 - 12:37pm 26

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: EPA

Australian faith in democracy plummets as voters tire of politicians

6 Dec 2018 - 3:57pm 5

Lynette Dawson. Photo: Twitter

Australian arrested over cold case made famous by podcast

5 Dec 2018 - 7:35pm

A photomicrograph of breast cancer cells metastasised to the liver. Photo: Alamy

Do you have cancer? This test can tell you in 10 minutes

5 Dec 2018 - 9:11pm 4

Privacy advocates have warned the laws would weaken cybersecurity. Photo: Shutterstock

Australia set to pass sweeping cyber laws despite privacy fears

5 Dec 2018 - 8:24am

While criminals are coming up with new types of fentanyl, the authorities have fallen behind. Photo: AP

How China plans to beat the fentanyl chemists

4 Dec 2018 - 7:02pm 4

Foreign Minister Winston Peters. Photo: Handout

New Zealand expands diplomatic presence in Pacific to counter China

4 Dec 2018 - 8:57pm 1

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: AFP

Australia’s Liberal Party moves to stop revolving door of PMs

3 Dec 2018 - 10:50pm

The Melbourne barrister had been giving information to Victoria Police from 2005 to 2009. Photo: EPA

Hundreds of Aussie convictions in doubt after mob lawyer named as informant

4 Dec 2018 - 8:16am 3