The Latest Breaking News from AUKUS

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will travel to China this week for a trade mission, his first since the state's Belt and Road agreements were torn up and against a backdrop of rising security tensions.

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

Delegation of British lawmakers met Taiwan’s president during visit to the island this week amid a deteriorating UK-China relationship

New Zealand may be pressured into increasing its own defence spending following Australia's signficant submarines deal with the US and UK.

The South Australian opposition says a state parliamentary committee should oversee the AUKUS project to ensure continued bipartisan support.

The wording of the Voice referendum is close to being announced after intense talks between senior Labor figures and Indigenous leaders, and negotiations over Labor’s safeguard mechanism between Greens Leader Adam Bandt and Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen are continuing in ‘good faith’.

Tax incentives lie behind Australia’s love affair with heavy-polluting vehicles, experts say

Gerry Brownlee, the New Zealand opposition foreign spokesman, says Australia's AUKUS deal creates issues for New Zealand.

PM Chris Hipkins brushes the Aukus security pact away as not relevant to us because of its nuclear component, but our likely Aukus involvement relating to technology will have far-reaching consequences, argues Peter Dunne