Foreign Minister Penny Wong has announced Australia will send six crisis response teams to the Middle East to assist stranded ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the Middle East conflict will likely have “very substantial” impacts on the Australian economy and the situation will inform the May budget. Chalmers said “the economic ...

Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy has requested a report by September 15, with public submissions accepted up to May 1 ( NIT ). Read more: The response to this attack on First ...

The US has destroyed an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, marking the first US attack on Iranian forces outside of the Middle East during the conflict. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ...

Carney’s Australian visit follows four days in India, where he signed deals worth billions. He travels to Japan on Friday to meet with the new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi ( BBC ). Read more: John ...

A suppressed review of the Liberal party’s 2025 election campaign has revealed the "extraordinary combination of internal ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held talks with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday night, pushing for commercial flights to resume and to bring stranded Australians home. Foreign ...

Global stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday morning, with the US Dow dropping 2% in early trading and the UK FTSE 100 down 2.75% at closing. Stock markets in Asia also tumbled ( The Guardian ). The ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed the UK will send its Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon to Cyprus following an Iranian drone attack. The move comes after the UK’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus ...

On Tuesday night, Australians looked up to the night sky for their last chance to see a full lunar eclipse for almost three years. The eclipse was visible around the country for about an hour, ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said Australia supports the US to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Albanese ...

At least five Shia Muslim mosques and Islamic centres in Sydney and Melbourne commemorated Khamenei. A spokesperson for the El Zahra Islamic community centre described him as a “respected scholar of ...