Australia

  • Mar 14, 2017
  • 2 min read

Australia-Malaysia security aid offers part solution

Australia is to share counterterrorism data with Malaysia amid fears of returning Islamic State fighters

Australia
  • Feb 24, 2017
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Australian government splits will grow more vitriolic

A disgruntled right-wing former prime minister has openly criticised his embattled centrist successor as party leader

Australia
  • Feb 17, 2017
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Government spats will boost Australia’s populist right

A right-wing MP has threatened to resign, placing the centre-right government’s one-seat majority in peril

Australia
  • Feb 13, 2017
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Australian far right will benefit from vote sharing

The governing centre-right Liberals have entered an electoral pact with a far-right party ahead of state elections

Australia
  • Feb 10, 2017
  • 7 min read

Australian far right could see electoral opening soon

Malcolm Turnbull's centre-right government faces a conservative defection and a resurgent anti-immigration party

Australia
  • Feb 7, 2017
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Australian right-wing splits will undermine centrists

A frustrated conservative senator has broken ranks with the centre-right government to set up a new party

Australia
  • Jan 27, 2017
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Sceptical US allies in Asia will hedge against neglect

US partners in Asia worry that the ‘America First’ line from the White House could leave them exposed in the region

Asia
  • Jan 23, 2017
  • 7 min read

East Timor elections will yield unsustainable policies

The next government will face a looming fiscal crunch and oversee crucial international negotiations

East Timor