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

Richard Marles has brushed off revelations that had a commercial airline pilot not relayed a warning to air traffic controllers, the Australian Defence Force would not have learnt of Chinese warship ...

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

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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 ...

Australia plans to review the fallout on Southeast Asia and the Pacific of President Donald Trump’s planned cuts to USAID as ...