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Jeremiah Manele and Anthony Albanese during a joint press conference at Parliament House on June 26, 2024.

PM announces $190m security deal with Solomon Islands

Anthony Albanese revealed the third security deal brokered this month, as the government continues efforts to counter China’s influence in the Pacific.

  • Michelle Griffin, James Massola and Matthew Knott

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape and Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese announcing the inclusion of a PNG team in the NRL.

‘Better than a veto’: NRL soft power play packs a secret punch on China

The announcement of a new NRL team was about so much more than a new NRL team. The setting of the press conference told the story.

  • Matthew Knott
Nauruan President David Adeang and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the new treaty was a historic moment in the countries’ relationship.

Australia fires Tomahawk missile for first time, spends $140m to China-proof Nauru

Faced with challenges in the Indo-Pacific, Australia revealed it test-fired a Tomahawk missile recently as it ramps up its long-range strike capability.

  • Matthew Knott

Forget ping-pong. When competing with China, it’s rugby league diplomacy that matters

It’s the ultimate display of soft diplomacy, but when it comes to the brand new NRL team for Papua New Guinea, Australia’s playing hardball with China.

  • Matthew Knott
Fans pack the national stadium in Port Moresby to watch the PNG Kumuls.

PNG minister says $600m NRL deal ‘nothing to do with China’

PNG’s foreign minister said its government had set aside more than $38 million to begin building facilities and a deal could be announced as early as next week.

  • Chris Barrett
Nauru President David Adeang with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in June.

Albanese wants to China-proof the Pacific, but Nauru is driving a hard bargain

As Australia seeks to prevent China from gaining a security foothold in the Pacific, island nations are negotiating hard.

  • Matthew Knott
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Time to land ‘Airbus Albo’. Letting fly over PM’s travels is plain silly

If Australia wants to wield its influence on the global stage, the PM has to be at important international events. Creating unnecessary turbulence about it makes us look small.

  • David Crowe
Season 2, Episode 6 of The Diplomat titled Dreadnought fictionalises the Australian government’s decision to cancel their plan to buy French submarines in favour of the nuclear powered submarines built under the AUKUS agreement.

Australia backstabs France over submarines, you couldn’t script it. But they did

Season 2 of Netflix’s The Diplomat stars Keri Russell as the US ambassador to the UK – and Australia as a back-stabbing support act.

  • Karl Quinn
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference in Apia, Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Pacific leaders blame Australia for role in climate crisis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had barely touched down in Samoa when the Commonwealth summit faced a split over who should pay to cut emissions.

  • David Crowe
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The King loves Australia but his next stop’s the big one (and China will be watching)

In Samoa, assembled nations will decide the Commonwealth’s next secretary-general. It will be one of three Africans whose countries are beneficiaries of China’s largesse

  • George Brandis

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