Australia snubs ASEAN treaty: report
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The federal government&#39;s refusal to sign a non-aggression pact with Australia&#39;s Asian neighbours is causing tension ahead of Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s visit to the ASEAN leaders&#39; summit in Laos, a newspaper report says.
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Australia is moving toward having the region&#39;s most advanced missile strike capability, but the plan has prompted concerns in a region where the country
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The Australian government will not move to block a foreign takeover of  airline Qantas, the prime minister says.
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Australia says they have rejected an informal request from the United Nations to send more troops to Iraq to protect the world body&#39;s staff there.
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Australia are unlikely to tour Pakistan in March because of security fears.
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India and around 10 other countries will remain excluded from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum for at least three years, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced Sunday.
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Australia is on track to meet targets set by the global Kyoto Treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions but will still not sign the pact because it ignores key areas of the fight against global warming in developing nations.
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Prime Minister John Howard has denied reports that he was not invited to attend the inauguration of Indonesia&#39;s president-elect, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, known as SBY.
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Prime Minister John Howard said Australia is unlikely to sign a non-aggression pact with its Asian neighbours despite reports its stance is causing friction ahead of his visit next week to Laos for the ASEAN leaders' summit.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has expressed scepticism about the merits of freezing foreign debt repayments of countries ravaged in the tsunami disaster, saying it would not help victims on the ground.
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New Zealand is considering signing an anti-aggression treaty with south east asian nations despite Australia saying it will not. The Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) is urging both countries
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Australia said on Sunday the coming Asia-Pacific leaders' summit in Sydney, which will focus on global warming, would set no binding targets for greenhouse gas reduction but might agree on a post-Kyoto consensus.
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Australia may try to negotiate a new defense and security treaty with Indonesia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Sunday. A bilateral security agreeement the two neighbors
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CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister John Howard refused today to apologise for joining the US-led invasion of Iraq despite a new US report that said Baghdad had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the attack.
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Australia may not want to go to war with China, but it could get dragged in by the US, writes Robert Ayson.
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THE Federal Government today played down its reluctance to join a non-aggression pact with Asian neighbours while Prime Minister John Howard prepared for a historic visit with ASEAN leaders.
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Australia will seal a security relationship with Japan next week stronger than its defense ties with any country except the United States, but Prime Minister John Howard dismissed concerns it would harm ties with China.