SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Labor government on Saturday promised an extra A$8.5 billion ($5.4 billion) for the country's ...

Australia's defense forces, joined by New Zealand, have been monitoring Chinese navy vessels since they were spotted last ...

Sanctions are increasingly used as a democratic tool against our enemies, but a Senate inquiry has found more could be done to make them effective.

The Chinese naval exercises, in international waters off Australia’s eastern coast, while legal, have nonetheless sparked ...

An Australian security boss says his spy agency has discovered three foreign governments plotting to physically harm people ...

The government's new media plan doesn't do much to aid the ailing industry, and a law change that might help has stalled.

The Australian and New Zealand militaries are monitoring three Chinese warships that are moving unusually far south along ...

Australia's Global Lithium Resources is pressing the government to halt what it calls a takeover attempt by Chinese investors ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

Commercial airliners flying over the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand were forced to reroute their flights on ...

The Australian government is prepared to buy failed domestic airline Rex in what would be a potentially major intervention by ...

With the latest national curriculum testing showing the lowest levels of civics on record, and a parliamentary inquiry ...