A balancing act: Australia&#39;s diplomatic relations
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, sparked quite an argument last week with his comments in Beijing about whether Australia would side with the United States in any war over Taiwan.
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VIENTIANE, LAOS - Prime Minister Helen Clark is keeping out of a diplomatic row between Australia and the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) over Australian Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s refusal to sign a non-aggression pact.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has downplayed an early revival of a defense pact with Indonesia, preferring instead to focus on what he calls the &quot;huge achievement&quot; of a peaceful presidential election in Australia&#39;s
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AUSTRALIA is on the verge of a closer strategic partnership with Indonesia as the Howard Government considers a new security pact with the world&#39;s most populous Muslim nation.
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The leading candidates in Australia&#39;s national elections have very different positions on the country&#39;s role in the war on terror.
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Australia assured neighbouring Indonesia that it was not promoting an arms race by considering whether to enrich uranium which can be used in nuclear weapons.
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SYDNEY : Australia said it was considering signing a new security agreement with Indonesia to replace a treaty between the countries that was scrapped when Canberra sent troops into East Timor in 1999.
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The federal government has received bipartisan support for a proposed new security deal with Indonesia. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says it&#39;s possible Australia could negotiate a security and anti-terrorism
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The environment took centre stage in Australia&#39;s election campaign on Friday with the nation&#39;s leaders, neck-and-neck in opinion polls, at odds over whether Australia
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A WEEK ago the Australian Government was talking about moving the Australian Embassy in Baghdad to a highly fortified zone. It followed a major review of security of Australian interests in hot spots prompted
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S involvement in Iraq and terrorism strikes in Southeast Asia have made defence and national security potentially decisive issues for voters as polling day nears.
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Prime Minister John Howard brushed off criticism of his foreign minister's comment that Australia had no obligation to side with the United States if tensions between China and Taiwan erupted into war.
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MILDURA, Australia  - Australia's head of state  commands the nation's defense force and has the power to  overturn laws and sack the government -- yet she lives in  Britain, 10,500 miles away.
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Australia re-elected a conservative government recently, which will allow the expansion of a crucial part of the U.S. missile defense shield. Critics say the Pine Gap facility could start an arms race in Asia. Patrick Gray reports from Brisbane, Australia.
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Australia&#39;s foreign minister, Alexander Downer, has wrapped up talks in North Korea on the stand-off over the country&#39;s efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
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Polls have opened in Australia&#39;s general election. The campaign between the ruling conservatives and the left-of center opposition has been fought largely on domestic issues, such as the economy, health care and public education.
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Australia&#39;s plans to create a maritime surveillance zone reaching into Indonesian waters is an example of its insensitivity to Asia and will bolster the view of Australia