Stephen Dziedzic

The Coalition seizes on meeting notes from June to claim the government is working to return Australian children and partners of Islamic State fighters. 

Private firm Starboard Maritime Intelligence says it has used satellite technology to track down the People's Liberation Army Navy task group.

Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have started holding annual defence ministers meetings to build trust and boost military cooperation, while PNG proposes building a 10km-wide demilitarised "buffer zone" along its border with Indonesia. 

Three groups within Defence will be rolled into one entity as part of a sweeping restructure of the department. 

The latest Asia Power Index shows Australia slipping behind Russia for influence, while the region remains dominated by the US and China.

Australia and Solomon Islands have made little progress on a $190 million package to expand the Pacific nation’s police force, almost a full year after the high-profile initiative was announced.

Adelaide will not host next year's COP summit, but Australia's energy minister, Chris Bowen, will lead the negotiations, and a pre-event will be hosted by a Pacific Island nation.

The federal government has begun to contact Pacific leaders to canvass a COP31 "Plan B" which would see Adelaide abandon its bid for the global United Nations climate summit so long as Pacific nations are guaranteed a role in next year's conference.

The foreign minister has used a major speech to celebrate the government's string of security agreements, saying Labor has helped build a region more stable and less deferential to authoritarian powers like Russia and China.

The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected a proposal from Türkiye that the two nations co-host next year's COP global climate meeting.

As Chris Bowen lands in Belém with the clock ticking on a resolution, Anthony Albanese says the rules against co-presidency for the COP are clear.

The move will affect Australia and New Zealand's multiple police and defence personnel working in Vanuatu, and could set back the signing of the Nakamal Agreement.

Details of an upgraded security treaty between Indonesia and Australia are yet to be made public, and the practical impact it will have on relations between the two countries depends on who you ask. 

Australia and Indonesia have announced the signing of a surprise security treaty between the two nations.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declares a "new era" in the relationship between the neighbours in a joint appearance with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto in Sydney.

Japan's ambassador to Australia calls for the two countries to form an "equilateral" security triangle with the United States, while championing the role of gas in the clean energy transition.

The President of Nauru, David Adeang, has made an unannounced visit to Parliament House in Canberra.

Nauru's president has made a secretive visit to Parliament House in Canberra amid allegations that bikie gangs won a lucrative contract to provide security for former immigration detainees.

It is almost crunch time for Australia to secure hosting rights for the next COP meeting, so it is timely to examine why the government's bid is languishing and how it can resolve a long-running stand-off with Türkiye. 

Spy chief Mike Burgess will not name the countries capable and willing to assassinate their dissidents on Australian soil, but these are some possibilities.

Australia's domestic spy chief's warning there's a "realistic possibility" a foreign government will try to assassinate a dissident on Australian soil, saying at least three nations are "willing and capable" of carrying out such an operation. 

The nation's top spy uses a major speech to warn there is a "realistic possibility" a foreign government will try to assassinate a dissident on Australian soil, saying ASIO believes "at least three" nations are willing and capable of carrying out such a plot.

A sophisticated Chinese spy ship monitors Australian, Philippines, United States and New Zealand naval forces as they conduct another round of joint exercises in the South China Sea.

As the US president promises South Korea can have nuclear submarines, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insists this can be delivered alongside the AUKUS boats.

The man, who has been accused by the US of selling secrets to Russia, worked for the Australian Signals Directorate, the national agency responsible for cyber security and foreign signals intelligence.