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.
Independent inspections at youth prisons or immigration detention centres will be permitted after the Turnbull government pledged to ratify a United Nations treaty in a bid to stamp out torture.
When - and where - will Malcolm Turnbull get the chance to "shirt-front" Donald Trump?
Australia wants to be sure Donald Trump knows, when he bites, he'll get a bite back.
Australian and American officials spent Friday scrambling to shore up the US refugee swap deal – and repair damage to the alliance relationship – amid signs that Donald Trump will likely follow through on the agreement with Malcolm Turnbull.
After being roasted by Donald Trump, experts are calling for Malcolm Turnbull to move the ANZUS alliance beyond worn-out cliches about two nations with shared values and common destiny.
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.
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