Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced here Monday that their countries have practically completed negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA).
Days after hosting his colleagues for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, Chinese President Xi Jinping will fly across the equator Friday for a back-to-back gathering of world leaders.
Australia is in the final stages of agreeing to an 860- million-U.S.-dollar deal with China which could eventually involve the export of nearly 1 million Australian cattle each year.
Investment bank Morgan Stanley on Wednesday released a report estimating that Australia's economic growth in 2015 will slow to below 2 percent and unemployment will rise to nearly 7 percent.
The incidence of bowel cancer is dramatically lower after screening, the Australian National University (ANU) quoted a new report as saying on Monday.
Members of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) joined Australian and United States troops on Tuesday in the the first joint military exercise to be staged in Australia.
The Australian dollar fell almost a quarter of a U.S. cent on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates on hold for the 14th month in a row.
Senior officials of Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) and Australia reaffirmed their shared commitment to further strengthening their comprehensive partnership in the recently-held fourth ASEAN-Australia Joint Cooperation Committee (AAJCC) Meeting here, ASEAN-Australia Commemorative Summit slated to be held next month in Myanmar.
In the "cloak and dagger" tradition of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions, it has now been four days since the latest round of negotiations opened in Hanoi, with no word from senior negotiators on the progress of what is the world's most important free trade agreement -- and its most opaque. According to a Japanese government source, senior officials from the 12 countries involved in the TPP negotiations from across the Pacific Rim gathered with typical discretion to hammer out the many sticking points that, along with a lack of transparency, plague the ambitious project.
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New counter-terrorism units have been set up at Australia's international airports in an effort to capture Australia-based militants joining terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced on Wednesday.
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Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has outlined a new paradigm in Australia's international relations, championing economic diplomacy -- a business-oriented soft power push -- that she says will drive poverty elimination and overcome geo-political challenges.
A consortium of energy companies announced on Monday they have discovered a new oil field off the coast of Western Australia in the biggest oil strike in Australia in 20 years.
The company of China's real estate tycoon, Wang Jianlin, will launch into Australia's property- development market, creating a billion-dollar local arm to invest in new projects, including a long-awaited Gold Coast high-rise complex.
The fruits of Australia's largest ever tourism drive, the Greater China Corroboree held last month, have begun to yield dividends with a new strategic direction that Tourism Australia's (TA) ambitious new Tsar, John O'Sullivan, hopes will boost Australia's chances in the global race for tourism's highest prize: the outbound Chinese tourists with a taste for sophisticated adventure.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday said she did not use the phrase "stand up to China" in her earlier interview with a local newspaper.
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