Tag - australia

 
 

AUSTRALIA

The Chinese Communist Party has significantly expanded its global influence operations by using tactics like election interference, disinformation, elite capture and pressure on the diaspora to sway politics and policies in democracies worldwide.
COMMENTARY / World
May 28, 2025
Is Beijing engineering election wins for 'soft on China' politicians?
Beijing legally requires all citizens to support Communist Party policies and views ethnic Chinese everywhere as instruments for advancing its global goals.
The site of a rare earth metals mine in China
BUSINESS / Companies
May 23, 2025
Rare earth production outside China 'major milestone'
Lynas' announcement illustrates how much more needs to be done to broaden the supply of elements critical for electric vehicles and renewable technology.
The Lynas Rare Earths processing plant in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
BUSINESS
May 18, 2025
Australian firm produces heavy rare earth, in first outside China
Beijing has banned the export of processing technology that could help rival nations, and has been accused of using state-imposed quotas to control supply.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Canberra "is appalled at the sham trial and 13-year sentence given to Australian man Oscar Jenkins."
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 17, 2025
Canberra slams Russian jailing of Australian who fought for Ukraine
Oscar Jenkins, 33, was convicted of being a "mercenary in an armed conflict" by the court in Ukraine's Russian-occupied east Luhansk region.
SeaForest CEO Sam Elsom at the company's headquarters in Triabunna, Tasmania, on March 26
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
May 15, 2025
Australian seaweed farm tackles livestock burps to combat climate change
While far less abundant in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, methane is about 80 times more potent over a 20-year timescale at warming the planet.
Jun Seki, chief strategy officer of Hon Hai Precision Industry's electric vehicle business, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on April 9.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 7, 2025
Hon Hai to make Mitsubishi an EV for Australia and New Zealand
The partnership makes Mitsubishi the first major customer for the Taiwanese contract manufacturer's fledgling EV business.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with his partner Jodie Haydon (right) and his son Nathan Albanese (left) at the Labor Party election night event in Sydney on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 5, 2025
Albanese landslide offers rare chance to fix Australia’s economy
Albanese’s center-left government has the best chance in years to take the hard steps economists have called for to ignite growth.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the Labor Party's election night event in Sydney on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 4, 2025
Trump backlash helps Australia’s leader to historic reelection
For the second time in a week, voters in a prominent U.S. ally angered by President Donald Trump punished conservatives and reelected a left-leaning incumbent.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks onstage after winning the general election, at the Labor Party's election night event in Sydney on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 3, 2025
Australia's Albanese, riding anti-Trump wave, claims election victory for Labor
Cost-of-living pressures and concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump's volatile policies had been among the top issues on voters minds.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left) U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (right) participate in a trilateral meeting during the AUKUS summit on March 13, 2023, at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 30, 2025
Nuclear submarine deal lurks below surface of Australian election
A key feature of the AUKUS agreement is for Australia to acquire a fleet of cutting-edge nuclear-powered submarines from the United States.
Sunset at Dudley Page Reserve, in Dover Heights, Sydney, on April 21
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 29, 2025
Australia’s economic ‘miracle’ is ending no matter who wins vote
Polls suggest the May 3 election will be tight, with many pundits predicting the winner will lead a minority government.
Brazil's Urupadi National Forest Park, in the Amazon rainforest, in June 2023
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Apr 26, 2025
Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts, report says
The report said overly optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 forests might draw down was "masking the scale and pace of the fossil fuel emissions cuts needed."
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addresses the media in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 1.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 26, 2025
NFL may open 2026 season in Australia
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, speaking about the league's international strategy on Friday, revealed the league's plans for its first trip to Melbourne next year.
Virginia Giuffre speaks to reporters in New York in August 2019. Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 26, 2025
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre takes own life in Australia, family says
"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," the family said in a statement.
Former rugby league player Jordan Mailata won the Super Bowl with the Eagles last season.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Apr 24, 2025
Australians eye NFL draft in hopes of finding next Jordan Mailata
Mailata's ascent to the pinnacle of the game was big news in Australia.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (right) and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton shake hands ahead of the second leaders' debate of the 2025 federal election campaign Sydney on April 16.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 22, 2025
Early voting kicks off in close election for Australia’s prime minister
Almost 50% of Australians cast their ballots early in the last election in 2022.
McLaren's Oscar Piastri celebrates after winning the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Apr 21, 2025
Oscar Piastri plans to do more winning after rising to top of F1 standings
The last Australian to lead the championship was Mark Webber, who is now the 24-year-old Piastri's manager, at Red Bull in 2010.
Since Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency, his rhetoric, tariffs and threats toward allies have helped boost left-leaning or anti-Trump candidates in elections around the world.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 20, 2025
The 'Trump effect' on elections is just beginning, including in Japan
Since his inauguration, the new U.S. president seems to be creating a “Trump effect” on many, though not all, foreign elections.
Japan coach Eddie Jones (right) shakes hands with France coach Fabien Galthie before a match in Saint-Denis, France, on Nov. 9, 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Apr 17, 2025
Japan coach Eddie Jones at peace after messy exit from Australia
Jones oversaw Australia's worst Rugby World Cup performance at the 2023 tournament in France.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, his partner Jodie Haydon and chairman and Board President of Tennis Australia, Jayne Hrdlicka, in the stands before the Australian Open final on Jan, 28, 2024
WORLD / Politics
Apr 16, 2025
Australian politicians gifted sports tickets while weighing betting ban
Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had promised a crackdown on gambling advertising following a 2023 report by his government.

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan