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Plea for understanding from former top diplomat

The Solomon Islands government hauls in Australia's High Commissioner over the Four Corners program exploring how China has been rapidly building commercial and security ties with the Pacific Island nation.

These are the stories of interpreters, embassy staff, guards and aid workers still trying to get to Australia a year after the fall of Kabul

David Lambourne, an Australian citizen, is in immigration dentation after a dramatic deportation attempt at Kiribati's international airport where Fiji Airlines pushed against the government, refusing to fly the judge against his will.

Australian travel woes won't be easing any time soon, with reports of passport production issues compounding the sector's long list of problems.

Billions of dollars in superannuation payments that may be owed to public servants will be retrospectively blocked by the federal government, as a court considers whether the government will have to pay up.

Sione Lavalu lost his health insurance after Covid stranded him in Australia and now owes $79,000 after suffering major burns

Myanmar's National Unity Government announces it will open its own diplomatic mission in a rented house in Canberra, near Myanmar's official embassy in Yarralumla.

Department’s incoming brief to Penny Wong warns of consular and passport issues as well as citizens detained in Syria

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.