The Latest Breaking News from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

A suppression on the name of a former senior public servant within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, who pleaded guilty to possessing child abuse material, is lifted.

Keith Scott can finally be identified, more than two-and-a-half years after his arrest.

Regime refuses to provide consular access as it does not recognise dual nationality, Dfat says

On budget night in 2014, the Abbott government cut nearly $8 billion from Australia’s international development program, the largest-ever aid cuts. Programs in South-East Asia were cut by 30%. For a government obsessed with surplus, it was seen as a sort of political victimless crime. Yes, it would hurt foreigners,…

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".

PM Yair Lapid says he’s ‘deeply disappointed’ in the ‘hasty’ foreign policy shift and has summoned Australia’s ambassador to explain

Insiders say the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been so gutted by Coalition cuts that it will take years to fully revive.

The government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just reached 100 days, a time to assess its performance.

Friends and family are paying tribute to a Sydney man who was found dead in northern Pakistan.

Official documents reveal an Australian embassy spent $750,000 at a luxury hotel built on land owned and leased by Myanmar's military junta, with activists saying taxpayer dollars should not have been used.

There are calls for urgent action after Australia dropped to 41 out of 50 countries and organisations in the Aid Transparency Index, revealing a "worrying trend" that has the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade close to hitting the bottom of the list, alongside Saudi Arabia and China.