The Latest Breaking News from Pat Conroy

Why does Australia provide development assistance to other countries? Is it charity or geostrategic self-interest?

Surfers are desperate to bring barrels back to Blacksmiths Beach.

During his recent speech at the Solomon Islands National University, Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat Conroy said “strategic competition […] is an unavoidable reality for our region”.

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Concerns in some quarters of the party base and congressional jitters will require deft political management but are unlikely to sink the deal

Coalition accuses PM of ‘threatening’ a double dissolution to pass bill, while Greens urge government to negotiate in ‘good faith’

Pat Conroy says former prime minister wrong on Australia’s strategic environment and military solutions

Australia says it will buy 20 new C-130 Hercules planes from the United States in a $6.6 billion deal that will increase by two-thirds the number of the Australian air force’s second-largest heavy transport aircraft

Albo kicked off the construction project on Thursday with a golden shovel.

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Sunday held separate talks with German Development Minister Svenja Schulze and her Australian counterpart Pat Conroy focusing on bilateral relations and cooperation under the G-20 framework.

China leads research in 19 of 23 technologies set as priorities by the AUKUS defence partnership of Australia, Britain and the U.S., including hypersonics, electronic warfare and undersea drones, highlighting the need for Western allies to pool research results, an Australian security think-tank says.