The Latest Breaking News from Tim Harcourt

US president-elect has promised to impose tariffs for as long as drugs and undocumented migrants flow into the country.

More than 1,000 jobs are riding on the Dubbo Project but it will be financially unsustainable unless the company receives more funding, an independent auditor has found.

Macquarie University economist Sean Turnell is free and living in Sydney after 650 days of imprisonment in Myanmar, for what appears to be the “crime” of doing an economist’s job, which is trying to make people’s lives better – in this case the lives of the people of Myanmar.

Australia should sanction Myanmar's military government and the regime's bankers, Sean Turnell, the Australian economist and adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in his first interview since being released from a Myanmar jail last week.

An Australian adviser to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, returned home on Friday, Australia's foreign minister said, a day he was released from detention by the Southeast Asian nation's military junta in a mass amnesty.

Amnesty International says the violence at the prison "is infuriating and heartbreaking because it shows how those detained and their visiting families are both at risk of serious harm".

Supporters of Australian advisor to former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Sean Turnell, are hopeful of his possible release as his secret trial concludes.

Southeast Asian nation is grappling with its first outbreak of foot and mouth disease in nearly 40 years.

The trade war between Beijing and Canberra is hurting both sides greatly, but will the change of Australian government bring it to an end?