John Howard was warned by his own department that a draft of the 2005 defence update would oversell Australia’s willingness ...

Fears that Afghanistan could become a haven for transnational terrorism and trade in narcotics under a resurgent Taliban led ...

The Howard government was warned that “institutional weaknesses” and “general inertia” in Papua New Guinea’s top ranks would ...

The Howard government’s $1bn reconstruction package offered to Indonesia in the wake of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami was ...

China’s steadily expanding military forces conducted large-scale drills around Taiwan this week, dispatching jet fighters, ...

The Howard government’s ambitions for a free-trade agreement with China were fraught with internal divisions, newly unsealed ...

Australian farmers and food producers are on track for record-high export yields this financial year, as trade deals slash ...

John Howard and Peter Costello say the failure to restrain government spending and a lack of ­productivity-driving economic ...

Several ministers and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet opposed allocating budget surpluses in full to the ...

Reforms to child custody arrangements that emphasised both parents were important in the lives of children was motivated to ...

Israel has said 37 aid organisations will be banned from operating in Gaza from Thursday unless they comply with guidelines ...

New Zealanders were amongst the first in the world to celebrate the arrival of 2026 with a fireworks display in Auckland on ...