officials of Australia

Dirco said Minister Lindiwe Sisulu would raise the concerns of the government relating to the advisory with her Australian counterpart, Minister Julie Bishop. ... "Officials from the department of International Relations and Cooperation have in the past requested, without success, that the advisory be amended ...

Cannabis is a “highly dangerous and addictive drug” that should not be legalised, the Australian Minister for Health has said. Greg Hunt was responding to a proposal from Australia's Green Party to legalise the drug. Hunt slammed the proposal as “medically irresponsible”, arguing that it “risks the health of ...

Vanuatu's Prime Minister Charlot Salwai has assured his Australian counterpart his country has no plans to allow China to build a military base on the ... Fairfax, citing unnamed sources, said no formal proposal had yet been made but the prospect of a Chinese military outpost so close to Australia had been ...

The West Australian agriculture minister, Alannah MacTiernan, has called for a two- to three-month suspension in the summer trade from 9 April. On Thursday, Wilson told Guardian Australia he had “always opposed the live sheep export, a trade that occurs almost exclusively out of my electorate of ...

Australia's acting prime minister, Michael McCormack, will promise to build on Barnaby Joyce's work by renewing the party's focus on regional health and ... as another area that “needs more work”, adding that he looks forward to working on it with his colleagues including deputy leader Bridget McKenzie.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Some members of Australia's governing Liberal Party want voters to believe immigrants are bad for the economy, draining ... It's a cause championed by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton, the immigration minister, who has said he hopes to become prime ...

The idea of increasing Australia's foreign aid commitment is opposed by 80% of Australians, the minister for international development and the Pacific, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, has told a UK audience, arguing any increase in foreign spending would be politically untenable in the current economy.

And much of 2018 has been consumed by the resignation of Barnaby Joyce, the former deputy prime minister, after it was revealed he had an extramarital affair with a former staff member. Critics said the turmoil undercut people's faith in Parliament and Mr. Turnbull's Liberal Party-led coalition. “I think if you ...

Bishop was responding to the furore that erupted after Australia's home affairs minister Peter Dutton said that white farmers should get fast-tracked entry into Australia on humanitarian grounds. Dutton said this week that the Australian government was exploring how to bring white South African farmers to ...

At a meeting of leaders at the Australia-Asean summit in Sydney, Suu Kyi addressed the issue “comprehensively [and] at some considerable length”, the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said. “Aung San Suu Kyi ... seeks support from Asean and other nations to provide help from a humanitarian ...

Julie Bishop has placed Australia firmly in Britain's corner in the escalating row with Russia over the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy on UK soil. The British prime minister, Theresa May, expelled 23 Russian diplomats, among other measures, after saying the Russian state was to blame for the 4 ...

Cape Town - A political storm has erupted in Australia over comments by home affairs minister Peter Dutton that the country would welcome white South African farmers. Dutton recently said white farmers are facing "horrific circumstances" of land seizures and violence in South Africa and wanted his ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Barnaby Joyce officially resigned Monday as Australia's deputy prime minister, clearing the way for a replacement — Michael ... along with at least two separate accusations of sexual harassment that have stirred up demands for a #MeToo reckoning across Australian politics.

While Joyce refused to step down as Nationals leader over the controversy, the leader of the Australian Conservatives stirred trouble for the Coalition by ... On Monday Turnbull acknowledged in an interview on 3AW that he had heard rumours about the liaison between the deputy prime minister and ...

Two-thirds of Australian voters want Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce to resign following his extramarital affair with his former press secretary, according to a poll. In a rare interview, Joyce blamed public life for the breakdown of his marriage. The scandal prompted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to ...

China has hit back at claims it has blocked Australian officials from entering its country, calling them "nonsensical. ... Earlier on Thursday, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he "wouldn't go that far" in characterizing the visa situations as refusals, but wouldn't deny that China has been delaying ...