Trump's America has Turnbull scrambling
In three ways - and in just three days - Donald Trump has profoundly unsettled Australia's assumptions about the world.
Daniel Flitton is senior correspondent for The Age covering foreign affairs and politics. He is a former intelligence analyst for the Australian government and was at one-time a university lecturer specialising in international relations.
In three ways - and in just three days - Donald Trump has profoundly unsettled Australia's assumptions about the world.
East Timor has dumped its spying case against Australia in the international court, raising hopes of an eventual end to the bitter stand-off over $40 billion in oil and gas fields.
Japan was caught killing a whale deep inside Antarctic waters declared by Australia to be a protected whale sanctuary.
Just as Malcolm Turnbull smiled and shook hands with Japan's Shinzo Abe in Sydney at the weekend, Japanese whalers were caught carrying out a bloody slaughter in the icy waters off Antarctica.
Conservationists are urging Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to make a last ditch appeal to Japan's Shinzo Abe to halt the slaughter of whales underway in waters near Antarctica.
East Timor will abandon the multibillion-dollar oil and gas treaty at the centre of sensational spying claims by Australia.
Here is a survey of public opinion in Australia to tell you what the other surveys have got wrong, and suggest the political climate might not be quite as toxic as some would have you think.
The captain wryly says the ship is built for speed, not comfort, but Sea Shepherd hopes its new rugged fast boat will be a "game changer" in its battle to stop Japanese whalers.
Australia is about to launch a fresh diplomatic drive to expose Japan's claim to kill whales in the name of science, but a threat of further international legal action appears to be on hold for now.
Australia will honour a multi-million dollar pay-off promised to Papua New Guinea to settle unwanted refugees - despite PNG moving to shut down the Manus Island detention camp.
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