Backed by the US, Australia has been increasingly asserting its power in the Indo-Pacific region. Has this strategy served it ...

Australia and its main security ally the United States have been concerned at China's growing influence in the South Pacific ...

Richard Marles has brushed off revelations that had a commercial airline pilot not relayed a warning to air traffic ...

A single parcel has led police to uncover a multi-tonne haul of a date-rape drug that was shipped from China in ...

Debating Australia's role in world politics is not always high on the political agenda. Elections here are more often fought on economic issues than ...

Beijing on Sunday said Canberra had “deliberately hyped” recent Chinese naval exercises near the Australian coast and ...

The New Zealand government says China made a "tactical error" by letting a flotilla fire live rounds in the Tasman Sea, as ...

China has agreed to consider concerns that its military did not give enough notice before staging live-fire exercises in the ...