Australia will provide over $100 million to help the Solomon Islands, which also has security ties with China, expand its police force so it can reduce its reliance on external partners, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.

Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

For a government elected almost three years ago, the decline in Labor’s fortunes has been steep, and proportional to cost-of-living pressures that have driven out incumbents around the globe.

China has lifted a ban on imports of Australian live rock lobsters, Canberra said Friday, demolishing the final barrier in a broader, multibillion-dollar trade war between the countries."This is great news for our live rock lobster producers and fishers here in Australia,

Australia will provide over $100 million to the Solomon Islands to expand its police force so the Pacific Islands nation, which also has security ties with China, can reduce its reliance on external partners,

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has addressed “concerning” footage of a 32-year-old Australian being interrogated by a Russian soldier in the Donbas region of Ukraine, with an old classmate from Melbourne Grammar School revealing what the prisoner of war was like during his school years.

China lifted a four-year ban on Australian rock-lobster imports as ties between the U.S. ally and its major trading partner continue to stabilize. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said China notified Australia on Friday that live rock-lobster ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -- Australian exports of live rock lobster to China can restart immediately, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday following a notification from China.

Australia's live rock lobster exports to China can resume following the removal of trade restrictions. This development highlights the resolution of trade disputes that began in 2020 over Australia's call for a COVID-19 origins inquiry.

Mr Albanese revealed the $190m package ... formal undertaking from the Solomons in relation to its activities with China”. “Ideally, Australia would like to roll back any security involvement ...

Anthony Albanese and Jeremiah Manele at Parliament ... the range of agreements signed between the Solomon Islands and China”. Mihai Sora, director of the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowy ...

Anthony Albanese has distanced himself from a controversial ALP video linking nuclear power to cancer, heart attacks and strokes insisting he’s focused on “the economics of this issue” and the option doesn’t add up.