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Ben Packham is The Australian’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years and is the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Lowy Institute Media Award.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2020 Virtual Leaders Summit between Australia and India at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, June 4, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s push for stronger links

Scott Morrison has been urged to strengthen engagement with the UN and other international bodies to counter China’s growing influence.

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Committee chair Andrew Hastie reacts during a hearing of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Hastie, Kitching push tougher China stance

New alliance seeking to defend democratic values, uphold fair trade will be spearheaded by Liberal MP Andrew Hastie and Labor senator Kimberley Kitching.

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India ‘summit’ strengthens ties

Australia and India have vowed to work together to keep the Indo-Pacific sea lanes safe and forge closer defence and trade ties.

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives in Downing street in central London on May 28, 2020. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)

UK seeks help in resettling HK refugees

Australia is considering a British request to resettle tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents if the security situation deteriorates there.

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13/05/2019: James Laurenceson has just taken over as the head of the Australia China Relations Institute at UTS. He is an economist who has just taken over this institute which was originally headed up by Bob Carr. Under Carr it attracted a fair bit of controversy for being too

Cutting reliance on China to hit jobs

Calls for Australia to diversify export markets away from China risk putting Australians out of work, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a Western Sydney Airport Rail Link announcement in Sydney, Monday, June 1, 2020. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

PM to attend G7 as guest of Trump

President Trump called Scott Morrison on Tuesday morning to officially invite him to the G7, scheduled for September.

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*This picture has been selected as one of the Best of the Year News images for 2019* United States President Donald Trump and Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a ceremonial welcome on the south lawn of the White House in Washington DC, United States, Friday, September 20, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Trump phones Morrison: Come to G7

Donald Trump has taken time out from dealing with the US riots to ring Scott Morrison about attending this year’s G7 meeting.

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Jean Dong co-hosting the fourth China-Australia Belt and Road Financial Roundtable Dialogue in Beijing.. Supplied

Influencer cosied up to Chinese bigwigs

Jean Dong, who helped convince Daniel Andrews to sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, has rubbed shoulders with senior Communist Party figures.

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Morrison awaits call up to G7

Scott Morrison has spoken to senior Trump administration officials about Australia joining the G7 and would welcome a formal invitation.

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Mike Burgess, Director-General of Security of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation at the ASIO headquarters in Canberra, 24 February 2020. Picture by Sean Davey.

ASIO plea to tackle teen terrorists

ASIO seeks powers to coercively question teens as growing numbers of young people ‘ensnared in streams of hate’.

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