Stephen Dziedzic is the ABC's Foreign Affairs (Asia Pacific) reporter, based in the Parliament House bureau. He covers foreign policy and Australia's relationship with countries in the Asia Pacific region. Stephen has worked for the ABC since 2007, and spent five years covering federal politics.
Opportunity Party leader Qiulae Wong is trying to blaze a new trail through New Zealand politics this election.
A senior official tells the ABC that Australia and other countries have provided public support and help through "quiet diplomacy" as the Trump administration forges ahead with sanctions against the International Criminal Court.
An analyst predicts China will swoop in to help Timor-Leste develop its long-planned Greater Sunrise oil and gas project after Woodside sells its stake.
North Korean companies have been accused of setting up an international network of IT workers to evade sanctions.
The Pacific nation's internal affairs minister says it has not yet made any decision to reduce China's police presence.
Vanuatu's government says it expects China's police presence in the country to reduce over time, as part of the Nakamal Agreement with Australia.
Vanuatu has signalled it expects a change in Beijing's police presence after the Pacific nation signed the landmark Nakamal Agreement with Australia.
Australian officials have been able to meet Hiep Tran at a detention centre in Ho Chi Minh City, where he is being held after disappearing in Cambodia last month.
Jose Ramos-Horta says agreements for the long-stalled Greater Sunrise gas project will be signed within the next few months.
Despite Matt Canavan's assertion that both the Liberal and National parties oppose the EU free trade deal, Liberals say they have not agreed a position and some are inclined to support it.
Human rights groups urge the federal government to ratchet up pressure on Vietnam over the fate of an Australian pro-democracy campaigner who is in jail after disappearing in Cambodia last month.
Australia's international trade monitor has found the Chinese exports aluminium windows and doors were "dumped" here, heavily undercutting local prices and damaging the local industry.
Resources Minister Madeleine King has left open the door to nationalising a Perth-based critical minerals company as several China-linked investors are defying federal government orders to divest from it.
After last week's pre-COP 31 meeting in Tuvalu, the country's Climate Change Minister, Maina Talia, has pushed back on criticism that the event was a failure.
Australia has joined a statement condemning Donald Trump's criticism of the International Criminal Court days after several other nations issued it.
Development finance in South-East Asia has also dropped to a 10-year low, as the region's historically significant donors retreat.
The Australian government led pre-COP summit in the Pacific is coming to a close.
The United States has banned a Chinese Fijian businessman accused of being a member of a criminal network with ties to the Chinese government.
The Pacific Islands climate summit held ahead of the official COP31 in Türkiye had its disappointments from the start, but the blame for falling short of climate targets rests with many.
Pacific defence ministers have signalled they will not rush to expand the remit of a new military response group, with Australia's defence chief saying there must be "absolute consensus" about how it evolves.
China said the pair agreed to back each other's hosting of APEC in Shenzhen and the G20 in Miami later this year, but there were no announcements of further agreements. Take a look back at how the day unfolded.
Pacific defence ministers signal they will not rush to expand the remit of a new military response group, with Australia's defence chief saying there must be "absolute consensus" about how it evolves.
An AI agent accessed Medicare data. But what did it get? And what else do we know?
Defence Minister Richard Marles says Australia is helping the US investigate how F-35 jet fighter parts were mistakenly diverted to Hong Kong, but that no technologically "sensitive" components have been lost.
European diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses.
