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RAAF personnel will participate in the trilateral Exercise Cope North 2022 with the US Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

Scott Morrison promises rural Australia he will ‘get the balance right’ with national action on climate change.

Embassy official Hua Chunying said the efforts of the Quad nations were to drive a wedge between other regional countries and China. 

A group of top diplomatic representatives to Australia has signed a letter to the PM calling for urgent action on climate change.

Scott Morrison has said that pursuing freedom is a shared commitment between Australia and the US, and that the partnership offered security benefits.

Not everything went according to plan in a push towards innovation, online platforms and administrative efficiency during the Obama administration, but progress was made and a lessons were learned along the way.

Reports that a big group of senior diplomats unexpectedly walked out of the US State Department because they can’t work for Trump seem to be exaggerated.