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Australia says ‘deep concerns’ over journalist detained in China

Chinese-Australian Cheng Lei has yet to receive a verdict after more than two and a half years in detention.

Al Jazeera

Australia concerned by delays in trial of journalist detained in China

Australia said it has "deep concerns" about delays in the case of Australian journalist Cheng Lei who faced a closed door trial in Beijing on national security charges a year ago.

Reuters

Australia concerned journalist still awaits verdict in China

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong says her government remains deeply concerned that Australian journalist Cheng Lei has not learned of a verdict a year after standing trial in China on national security charges

The Independent UK

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Penny Wong moves to dampen expectation of breakthrough in Julian Assange case

Foreign minister warns of ‘limits to what diplomacy can achieve’ in efforts to bring Assange home

The Guardian - AU

Daniel Andrews’ media-free trip tells us something about China – and a lot more about journalists and the premier

Of course it would be better for Andrews to take some media. But would they do a good job, or would it be all ‘Chairman Dan’ and local political bullshit?

The Guardian - AU

Australia raises concerns with Israel about minister’s remarks on Palestinians

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich provoked outrage by saying there was ‘no such thing as a Palestinian people’

The Guardian - AU

Penny Wong advised to pressure China over Russian invasion of Ukraine, documents reveal

Briefing notes also suggest Australia’s foreign minister raised issue of human rights with her counterpart during visit to China in December last year

The Guardian - AU

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Australian delegation heads to China for trade talks

In a sign of thawing diplomatic relations with Beijing, a second Australian minister will travel to China this week raising fresh hopes of an end to

The New Daily

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to travel to China for trade mission

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will travel to China this week for a trade mission, his first since the state's Belt and Road agreements were torn up and against a backdrop of rising security tensions.

ABC News

Selling the Aukus deal to the public presents clear challenges for the Labor government

The latest Essential poll suggests the elite security consensus is not reflective of the prevailing national mood

The Guardian - AU

Army veteran's wife tells Q+A her husband tried to take his life more than 30 times, as she calls for more funding from government

Australian Army veteran Dave has tried to end his life more than 30 times since returning from Timor-Leste. He and his wife have used a Q+A appearance to implore the government to better support defence personnel.

ABC News

Fresh sanctions levelled at Iran for human rights abuse

Multiple Iranian individuals and entities have been slapped with new sanctions for human rights abuses and for support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The New Daily

Australia issues new sanctions on Iran over human rights abuses, supply of drones to Russia

The Australian government says it is imposing Magnitsky-style sanctions on 14 Iranian individuals and 14 entities over "egregious human rights abuses and violations in Iran".

ABC News

Sanctions against Iran not enough, opposition says

The opposition wants to list the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation in addition to sanctions against Iran for human rights abuses.

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The New Daily

UN aviation panel to hear Australia’s MH17 case against Russia

The United Nations aviation council has voted to hear Australia's case against Russia over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17

Reuters

U.N. aviation council votes to hear MH17 case against Russia

The United Nations aviation council on Friday voted to hear a case against Russia over the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the foreign ministers of Australia and the Netherlands said.

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: Hurt feelings overwhelm media’s ability to weigh Paul Keating’s substance

Paul Keating opened the door to the unexamined question of how we arrived at this point, both nationally and within the Labor Party.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: History will judge Keating's assessments of AUKUS and China, but his performance went over the top

As the old adage goes, time will tell whether Paul Keating’s scepticism about AUKUS and his extremely benign view of China’s intentions turn out to be justified.

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The Guardian - AU

Chinese official asks if Australia’s Aukus nuclear submarines intended for ‘sightseeing’

Multiple sources present confirm the remark was made but it is unclear if it was made sarcastically

ABC News

Anthony Albanese rebukes Paul Keating for scathing remarks against 'seriously unwise ministers' Richard Marles and Penny Wong

The prime minister says Labor party elder Paul Keating's strident criticism of two cabinet ministers only serves to diminish the former leader, but did not call on him to apologise.

The Guardian - AU

‘Pretentious’, ‘hyperbolic’ and ‘irresponsible’: what was behind Nine newspapers’ Red Alert series?

Experts have questioned whether the Sydney Morning Herald and Age’s alarming series was inspired by an attempt to undermine the stabilisation of Australia’s relationship with China

The Guardian - AU

Australia seeks talks with global nuclear watchdog to allay Aukus fears

Government has promised not to enrich uranium or reprocess spent fuel as part of the nuclear-powered submarine program

The Guardian - AU

The ‘worst deal’ in history and an Albanese snub: Paul Keating’s most memorable calls at the press club

Former Labor prime minister attacks Aukus, the media, post-Brexit Britain and his own side of politics

ABC News

Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka tells Anthony Albanese he backs AUKUS deal

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not need a long stopover to secure support from Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka for the long-awaited details of Australia's pathway to nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS deal.

The Conversation

Paul Keating lashes Albanese government over AUKUS, calling it Labor's biggest failure since WW1

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched a swingeing attack on the Labor government over the AUKUS submarine agreement, accusing Anthony Albanese of relying on “two seriously unwise ministers, Penny Wong and Richard Marles”.

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