By Su-Lin Tan Julie Bishop, Australia’s former foreign minister, said because her country is ‘well-regarded in foreign circles’, it was capable of being a moderating voice to tensions between the US and China. Source: Australia can be a ‘reasonable’ moderator to ease US-China tensions: ex-foreign minister Julie Bishop
Volunteers are working frantically on a second day to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a beach in Western Australia, but more than 50 have already died Source: Volunteers working to save nearly 100 beached whales in Australia, but more than half have died Category: International
By Reuters ‘Australians can be proud that this ship … is being commissioned here for the first time in … history’, Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said. It reflects ‘our shared commitment to upholding the rules-based order’, he added. Source: US commissions Navy warship in Australia, first ever in foreign port, response to China reach […]