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Christopher Luxon tops list of world leaders ranked by confidence in handling foreign affairs, Australian poll reveals
The New Zealand Herald
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June 16, 2025
Following Luxon is French President Emmanuel Macron (61%), Albanese (60%), Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (60%), Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky (59%) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (59%). On the bottom of the list is North...
Defence Force chief: Our navy now ‘significantly more lethal’
Cairns Post
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June 14, 2025
News Corp’s Defending Australia event for 2025 brought together key defence decision-makers to discuss our nation’s security at a time of extraordinary global turmoil. The morning session focused on the future of the AUKUS alliance and...
Parliament Rejects Proposal To Address Critical Workforce Shortages
Scoop
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Over 20,000 New Zealanders signed a petition calling for paid training in healthcare, teaching, and social work to address critical workforce shortages. In June 2025, the Education and Workforce Select Committee dismissed the proposal. Despite...
Where does ‘America first’ leave Australia?
In Daily
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June 15, 2025
Trump’s America does not care about Australia. The review into AUKUS that has sent the national security apparatus into meltdown is nothing but a shakedown from a bully intent on shaking down the world for his own mercurial interests. A smart...
Sri Lanka and Australia to enhance cooperation on transnational crime with new MoU
Daily FT
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The Cabinet of Ministers at their meeting last week approved a proposal to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Sri Lanka Police and the Australian Federal Police towards strengthening bilateral law enforcement ties. Addressing the...
Australia signals strong support for Global Plastics Treaty
Food & Drink Business
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Minister for Environment and Water, Murray Watt: "It's within our reach, and there isn't a moment to lose." Minister Watt joined 96 other countries in endorsing the Nice Wake Up Call for an Ambitious Plastics Treaty, signalling Australia’s backing...
From the Australian Ballet to truffle hunts, here’s how to spend a winter-ful week in Canberra
HerCanberra
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June 15, 2025
Posted on 16 June, 2025 It might be cold outside, but things are well and truly heating up in Canberra with some winter-ful events. Sorry, the pun was too easy. But from watching the Australian Ballet in the cosy Canberra Theatre Centre to...
The geopolitical fight for this major Australian asset is heating up
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 15, 2025
Out at the Darwin Port, the Australian boss of embattled Chinese-owned firm Landbridge pushes back against "myths and mistruths" he says his company has faced for a decade. From accusations of sinister links to China's People's Liberation Army...
Toll of Trump’s USAID cuts on Australian aid revealed, with projects to help children among hardest hit
The Guardian
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June 15, 2025
The Trump administration’s gutting of foreign aid has seen a $400m hit to Australian projects, with 120 projects affected, at least 20 offices closed and people left without crucial support for health, education, humanitarian and climate change...
Australia is set to embrace energy from waste, but should it?
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 14, 2025
Overlooking the huge Woodlawn landfill about three hours from Sydney, the scale of Australia's waste challenge is laid bare. All day, every day, a procession of trucks make their way to the bottom of the former open pit mine and dump their loads...
An illegal fate? The curious case of Australia's last homemade cargo ship
SBS
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An Australian cargo ship scrapped for steel in Bangladesh may have intentionally evaded an international hazardous waste treaty and European law, a Dateline investigation can reveal. A Panama flag, a Liberian shell company, and the world's largest...
Australian man dead in Bali shooting and another man injured
Seven News
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June 14, 2025
An Australian man has been killed in a shooting in Bali. According to local police, he was shot at a villa at Munggu in the Island’s Badung Regency on Friday night. A 32-year-old Australian-born man died at the scene, and a 34-year-old man was...
What Australian doctor saw in Gaza was 'apocalyptic', now he wants to go back
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 14, 2025
The memories of "starving children" with horrific injuries still haunt emergency doctor Mohammed Mustafa. Warning: This story contains graphic details of dead bodies and animals. Dr Mustafa, known as Dr Mo, recently returned from his second...
Australia: Fall of Tasmanian state government underscores political instability
World Socialist Web Site
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June 14, 2025
A long-developing political crisis in Tasmania produced turmoil in the island state over the past week, following an 18-17 no-confidence vote in the lower house of parliament against the minority Liberal Party government. For the second time in 16...
Why Tasmania will always be Australia's biggest loser - and it's not just because of THAT doomed footy stadium. Plus, Q+A is dead... but there will be more TV funerals to come: PVO
Daily Mail
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June 14, 2025
RIP Q+A - but there will be more funerals to come The death of Q&A - once a marquee program on the ABC capable of attracting audiences in excess of one million - tells you everything you need to know about the slow and steady decline of...
Who is Nova Peris? Former Australian Olympian and senator shelters in Israel amid Iranian missile barrage
The Economic Times
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June 14, 2025
Nova Peris, a former Australian Olympian and senator, is one of the Australians trapped in Israel. She, along with media personality Erin Molan, on June 13 took refuge in bomb shelters after Iran launched multiple missile waves against Israeli...
Australia 'alarmed' by Israel strike on Iran: Wong — as it happened
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 12, 2025
2h agoFri 13 Jun 2025 at 4:50am That's the end of our live coverage That's where we'll leave our live coverage for today. Thank you for joining us this week. You can look back on today's developments below, or download the ABC News app and...
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Mean One Big Tax Headache for Australia
The Epoch Times
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June 13, 2025
Australia may be forced to overhaul its domestic tax rules amid pressure from the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBA) that recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, currently under Senate consideration,...
'Parliament tower' approval a tall order for opponents
The Courier
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June 13, 2025
An open letter from more than 120 prominent South Australians, including former premier Lynn Arnold, said the festival tower would overshadow parliament house, create a wind tunnel, block views from the city parklands, and "place private profit...
Australia ‘confident’ in US nuke-powered submarine deal despite review
Manila Standard
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June 12, 2025
SYDNEY—Australia said Thursday it is “very confident” in the future of a US agreement to equip its navy with a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, after the Trump administration put the pact under review. The 2021 AUKUS deal joins Australia, the...