High seas hopes meet hard realities with 2026 set to become a pivotal year for world’s oceans
While 2025 saw tidal shifts in ocean governance, 2026 is the moment of reckoning, when promises to protect…
After tireless advocacy and a dark history, Australia has a treaty with its First Peoples
Aunty Thelma Chilly can remember when children would hide, panicked by strangers who entered the family home. Many…
Australia and Indonesia strike landmark security treaty
Australia has struck a historic bilateral security treaty with Indonesia in a move Anthony Albanese has described as…
Australia and Papua New Guinea sign landmark alliance vowing to defend each other in conflict
Papua New Guinea and Australia have formally signed a landmark new “Pukpuk” defence treaty, elevating the bilateral relationship…
Don’t let derangement syndrome throw shade on Anthony Albanese’s global wins as steady approach pays off
As a one-time foreign correspondent — in this case, a lifetime ago during the first Trump administration —…
Victoria to become first Australian state to formally table treaty legislation in parliament
Victoria’s historic treaty is promising to “reckon with the past” and empower the state’s First Peoples — and…
Landmark plastics treaty falls apart as nations fail to find consensus for pollutioneaty
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution have ended without agreement as countries failed…
Book about Treaty of Waitangi wins top prize at NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Tait and Tu‘akoi said all the books nominated for the book of the year award were great examples…
Australia and the US are at odds on a plastics treaty, with last-ditch negotiations underway
On Monday, esteemed British medical journal The Lancet delivered a dire warning, as nations were readying for last-ditch…
UK and Australia deepen AUKUS submarine pact with 50-year treaty
The United Kingdom and Australia will sign a new five-decade treaty to cement the AUKUS submarine pact and…