The oil-dependent country’s acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ 30% Greater Sunrise stake is seen as the final step in securing sovereignty. But is it worth the risk?
The Witness K scandal and attempts to cover it up show how there has been bipartisan agreement to let commercial interests dictate Australia's foreign policy.
A peaceful democracy protest in France almost ended in tragedy for several Australians. Where is the response from the foreign ministry?
We still don't know exactly what is in Ruddock's review into "religious freedom", but we should be mighty worried about it.
Australia — as well as the rest of the world — continues to look away from the active campaign of large-scale repression in China’s north-west Xinjiang province.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had a meltdown in a Senate hearing this morning. Here's the full context, in case you haven't been keeping up to date.
Throughout her questioning, Ford's voices falters, she swallows and breathes, but she does not cry.
A report from a UN delegation to Yemen found that atrocities on both sides of the Yemeni civil war continue to mount. But, as one member of the delegation found, it's hard to express the full measure of the tragedy.
A second Brexit referendum may come to pass -- and would be as genuine expression of democratic vote, despite what Leavers may say -- but if not, it's enough just to see the Tories squirm.
Please enjoy the quiet, bone-dry irony of these Soviet-era jokes.
