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Quad to make region stronger, more prosperous: Aus PM Morrison

Terming it a 'positive' initiative, Morrison said it was designed to lift the wellbeing of the people of the strategically-vital Indo-Pacific region.

Quad to act as a 'force for global good', ensure peace in Indo-Pacific: PM

Quad leaders pledge to work together for peace and prosperity in Indo- Pacific region

India, Australia hold first Joint Working Group meet on coal, mines

Avenues for B2B collaboration on coal technology, transfer of technology, cooperation on skill development and training, issues related to coking coal import from Australia were discussed

Australian PM mentioned rationale behind AUKUS: MEA on Modi-Morrison meet

During meeting with PM Modi, his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison briefly mentioned the rationale from the Australian side in seeking to initiate the AUKUS pact, Harsh Vardhan Shringla informed

US rules out adding India or Japan to security alliance with Australia, UK

The United States has ruled out adding India or Japan to the recently created security partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom in the Indo-Pacific popular as AUKUS

Indian students mull other options as Australia, Canada reject visas

The US is back in favour along with the UK for overseas admissions in Spring semester of January 2022

Australia's Zip enters Indian buy-now-pay-later space with ZestMoney deal

Australian buy-now-pay-later firm Zip Co Ltd said it would invest $50 million to acquire a minority interest in Indian peer, ZestMoney, as part of its plans to tap new growth markets and add investors

AUKUS, born in secrecy, will have implications for Australia, wider region

Dubbed by some as ANZUS 2.0, AUKUS is a trilateral agreement, but one that notably excludes New Zealand

France rallies European Union as trust in US, UK and Australia wanes

France on Tuesday urged its European Union partners to consider whether to delay negotiations on the bloc's future trade agreement with Australia

Biden seeks phone call with Macron amid submarine deal row

US President Joe Biden is seeking to hold a phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in an effort to reduce tensions caused by a controversial submarine deal

EU official says Australia trade deal delayed by French snub

Australia's cancellation of a French submarine contract will complicate and delay negotiations on an Australian-European Union free trade deal, a European trade official said on Tuesday.

France and Australia agree submarines won't stop trade deal

French and Australian officials said Monday that France's anger over a cancelled submarine contract will not derail negotiations on an Australia-European Union free trade deal. France withdrew its ambassadors to the United States and Australia after President Joe Biden revealed last week a new alliance including Australia and Britain that would deliver an Australian fleet of at least eight nuclear-powered submarines. The deal sunk a 90 billion Australian dollar ($66 billion) contract for French majority state-owned Naval Group to build 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines for Australia. The money would have been spent over 35 years. French Ambassador to Australia Jean-Pierre Thebault denied media reports that France was lobbying the European Union not to sign the trade deal with Australia that has been under negotiation since 2018. At this stage, negotiations do continue and there is a strong interest ... for Australia to have a free trade agreement with the EU, Thebault told

Security deal: Britain says it will be hard-headed in defending interests

The pact has angered France as it saw Canberra ditch a multi-billion-dollar order for French submarines in favour of an alternative deal with Britain and the United States

Australia says France knew of concerns it had over submarines

Australia understands France's disappointment but the decision was made on "sovereign, national defense interests," Morrison told reporters on Sunday

Australia says it was 'upfront' with France over submarine deal

Australia ditched the 2016 deal with France's Naval Group to build a fleet of conventional submarines

Australia: France's recall of ambassador over submarine contract regretful

Australia said Saturday it was noting with regret France's recall of its ambassador over the surprise cancellation of a submarine contract in favour of a US deal.

A 3,700-mile sailing trip shows why strict quarantine is falling flat

Nearly two years into the crisis, tens of thousands of frustrated citizens of nations such as Australia and New Zealand remain stranded overseas, unable to secure flights back to their homelands

Dominance by default: How China was handed East Asia on a platter

Anyone within range of China's expanding navy will have to build capabilities faster and/or work more closely with the US, as Australia has just announced, writes T N Ninan

Australian PM Scott Morrison rejects Chinese criticism of nuclear sub deal

Morrison on Friday rejected Chinese criticism of Australia's new nuclear submarine alliance with the United States and said he doesn't mind that President Joe Biden might have forgotten his name.

AUKUS alliance with Australia, Britain not against any country: White House

The new trilateral security alliance AUKUS is not about any one country but aimed at advancing the strategic interests of the US, Britain and Australia