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Australasia
Australia to spend up to US$245.8 billion by 2055 on Aukus shipyard
It will make an initial investment of A$127 million (US$85 million) over three years to upgrade facilities at the Henderson shipyard.
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The US and EU are shutting out China’s green tech. Australia wants more. Why?
16 Oct 2024 - 7:00AM
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‘It’s the Chinese helping us’: Asia’s youngest nation defends its China ties
15 Oct 2024 - 2:35PM
Australasia
Australian police instructor likely to be charged for Nazi salute, slogan
The offence by the instructor at the Victoria state police academy in Melbourne carries a penalty of a fine and up to 12 months in prison.
12 Oct 2024 - 6:38PM
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File Photo: A cyclist passes riot police outside the Land Forces 2024 arms fair in Melbourne on September 12. Photo: AFP
Economics
Australia’s failure to reinvest in mineral wealth risks dragging down economy
Wealth from the mining boom has not been reallocated to benefit average Australians, leaving them worse off now than 10 years ago, analysts say.
12 Oct 2024 - 1:13PM
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Australasia
UK YouTuber Yung Filly charged with raping woman in Australia hotel room
The rapper also allegedly choked the woman following a music performance at a Perth nightclub.
11 Oct 2024 - 10:41AM
Australasia
New Zealand slams ‘armchair admirals’ for attacking sunken ship’s woman captain
Defence minister Judith Collins said Commander Yvonne Gray, who faced a barrage of online abuse, was ‘appointed on merit, not gender’.
11 Oct 2024 - 9:16AM
Global Economy
China ending Australian lobster ban ‘huge relief’ for industry
China is set to lift its ban on Australian lobster imports by the end of the year following a meeting between Premier Li Qiang and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
10 Oct 2024 - 5:00PM
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Cooked Eastern Rock Lobster displayed at Sydney Fish Markets. Photo: Getty Images
Australasia
‘I regret nothing’: Australia to jail self-described Nazi for salute
Jacob Hersant, 25, made the gesture in front of news media cameras six days after the Victoria state government made the Nazi salute illegal.
9 Oct 2024 - 9:21PM
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Australian man accused of trying to kill wife by giving her poisoned tea
Stephan Wagner, 61, allegedly administered his wife a poison used to kill ants, causing her to become seriously ill.
10 Oct 2024 - 6:25AM
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Australasia
East Timor approaches China’s Sinopec over US$65 billion gas project
‘If Australia doesn’t feel like doing it … Then either we talk with the Chinese or the Kuwaitis’, East Timor’s president said.
9 Oct 2024 - 3:04PM
Australasia
Koala leads Australian police on merry, slow-speed chase through railway station
Video showed the koala ambling through Sydney’s Casula station in the early morning, at times coming dangerously close to the platform edge.
8 Oct 2024 - 3:33PM
A koala walks perilously close to the platform edge at Sydney’s Casula station in this still from video footage released by Transport for New South Wales. Photo: Facebook/TransportforNSW
Australasia
‘Not welcome’: China ally Kiribati criticises Chinese ICBM test
China conducted a rare launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile with a dummy warhead that landed in the Pacific Ocean late last month.
8 Oct 2024 - 11:13AM
Australasia
Fuel spill ‘highly probable’ after New Zealand navy ship sinks off Samoa
The ship, which was surveying a reef, is considered lost. The incident has sparked worries about the state of New Zealand’s ageing military hardware.
7 Oct 2024 - 4:18PM
Australasia
75 on board New Zealand Navy ship safe after it sinks off Samoa
The vessel was carrying out a reef survey near the southern coast of Upolu when it ran aground.
6 Oct 2024 - 2:46PM
Middle East
Australians evacuate from Lebanon via Cyprus
The evacuation is the first large-scale operation to get citizens out of the country amid the Israeli onslaught on Hezbollah.
5 Oct 2024 - 11:02PM
A woman, one of the 229 Australian nationals, arrives at Cyprus’ main airport of Larnaca after a chartered flight evacuated them from Lebanon, in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Saturday. Photo: AP
Global Economy
Australia to push ahead with trade diversification despite warming China ties
Analysts say Australia will still push ahead with its trade diversification, particularly in Southeast Asia, despite improving ties with China.
5 Oct 2024 - 12:30PM
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Australasia
Will Australia’s code of conduct for dating apps make Tinder, Bumble safer?
The code follows research revealing that three-quarters of Australian dating app users have experienced some form of sexual violence.
1 Oct 2024 - 7:44PM
Politics
Perth re-emerging as critical hub in deterring conflict in Indo-Pacific
By 2027, US and British nuclear submarines operating out of HMAS Stirling will make Perth a key player in Indo-Pacific defence strategies.
30 Sep 2024 - 11:53AM
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Global Economy
AIIB adds new member as development bank embarks on grand global mission
Micronesian island of Nauru named as the 110th member of the Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Thursday.
30 Sep 2024 - 1:27PM
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) president Jin Liqun during its ninth annual conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Photo: AIIB
Australasia
Qantas Airways duped nearly 1 million passengers in ghost-flight scandal
The carrier agreed to pay US$82 million in fines and compensation for selling tickets on 71,000 flights it had already decided to cancel.
26 Sep 2024 - 4:10PM
Australasia
Armoured vehicle crash in Australia injures 12 Singaporean troops
Singapore’s military is conducting its largest overseas exercise on a stretch of Australian coastline four times larger than the city state.
25 Sep 2024 - 12:25PM
Australasia
Ghostly prowlers: new species of spookfish discovered in New Zealand
The elusive Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish has a cartilage-based skeleton, haunting black eyes and smooth, scale-free skin.
24 Sep 2024 - 10:34PM
OPINION
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How Australia’s housing crisis opens door for eager Asian investors
7 Oct 2024 - 4:30PM
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Opinion
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Aukus is a setback for Australia’s hard-fought independence
22 Aug 2024 - 6:53AM
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Muyi Yang
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Genevieve Donnellon-May
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Yongping Sun
Opinion
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China and Australia can team up to boost Asean’s energy transition
30 Jul 2024 - 4:30PM
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Opinion
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The AI revolution: we’re either in it together or we’re in for it
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Malaysia’s Brics bid affirms, rather than abandons, its diplomatic values
28 Jun 2024 - 6:03AM
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Why Australia shouldn’t pin its housing crisis on immigration
4 Jun 2024 - 5:56AM
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