Follow South China Morning Post - Australasia, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/scmp23 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:34:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGRceKcqXAJ4eT5HJgy6HUf The pipe is large enough for people to walk through and runs under a block of land in Wellington where the new Chinese embassy is to be built.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:52:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGRceKcqXAJ4eT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxET7Ml7JnvKT3n9ye8UNv30 Qantas, which had Australia’s worst flight cancellation record in May, has become a punching bag for passengers exasperated with missing luggage and operational lapses.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 04:15:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxET7Ml7JnvKT3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEN7aQ0y8uLaSejEQ2Mq9rY In a lecture in Singapore, Australia’s new Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Canberra is committed to ‘Asean centrality’ and would ‘find its security in Asia, not from Asia’.]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:38:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEN7aQ0y8uLaSejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxE_BBumVFHqJyejEQ2Mq9rY Authorities have instructed about 50,000 people to evacuate and another 28,000 to prepare to escape the rising waters in New South Wales.]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:21:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxE_BBumVFHqJyejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEHIaH4V8lfi5VjH6qdYdAk Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea are not Nato members but are global partners of the military alliance.]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2022 02:30:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEHIaH4V8lfi5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEgL8R30Eq4lJVjH6qdYdAk Parts of the city of 5 million people are facing its fourth flooding emergency in a year and a half, after torrential rain since Friday caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks.]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:08:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEgL8R30Eq4lJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGevVav229wWSlmFkX7M1Jw ‘Ticket to Paradise’, which was filmed in Australia, tells the story of divorced parents who fly to Bali to convince their daughter not to marry a local she barely knows, played by a mixed-race Indonesian-French man.]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 08:00:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGevVav229wWSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxFppYZwEBhJ1SlmFkX7M1Jw Johnson’s vigorous, drawn-out handshake left observers on either side of the globe wondering what it was all about – and praising Ardern’s diplomacy.]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 04:10:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxFppYZwEBhJ1SlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEXl2mi1Ku5XJVjH6qdYdAk Mahathir said in 2004 that Australia could not join an East Asian diplomatic group because ‘they are Europeans, they cannot be Asians’; now, soon after Australian FM Penny Wong visited Malaysia, where she was born, he said all nations will be multiracial.]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 13:56:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEXl2mi1Ku5XJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHHV4VbubO4z-T5HJgy6HUf ‘My presence here represents a new start for our countries’ relationship,’ Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during a meeting with the French leader in Paris.]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:21:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHHV4VbubO4z-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxH4cdeVgs_PG5s0ohxaO6Yr Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP) is made up of US, UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand; some say France is already interested in joining despite anger over the Aukus security pact and the new PBP will become ‘multilateral rather than minilateral’.]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:39:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxH4cdeVgs_PG5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGTLTwLWN3vBeT5HJgy6HUf New Zealand has in recent years tried not to antagonise China, its largest trading partner, at times choosing not to co-sign statements from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance criticising Beijing.]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:09:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGTLTwLWN3vBeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEczdJ8ZrNC66CY3L745TL_ For the first time, the Western military alliance singles out China by name in its strategy document, which had not been updated for 12 years.]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:50:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEczdJ8ZrNC66CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHjzZB4h0dTnOzdsCmHakzH A Lowy Institute Poll found 51 per cent were in favour of Australia using its military forces to defend Taiwan. Just 12 per cent of those surveyed said they trust Beijing to act responsibly in global affairs.]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:01:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHjzZB4h0dTnOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEf_VihtTX2JHn9ye8UNv30 Canberra and Beijing have been at odds for two years, but a leadership change in Australia presents an opportunity for at least a ‘thawing’ of trade ties and diplomatic exchanges with China.]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:30:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxEf_VihtTX2JHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHJ_VcgHz8cXsb1naedg1wr Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who wrapped up the last leg of her regional tour in Malaysia, said the new Labor government is ‘listening’ to the concerns of its neighbours.]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:13:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHJ_VcgHz8cXsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHJ_VcgHz8cXnn9ye8UNv30 Perceptions by Australians have not changed since 2021, with two-thirds of people surveyed in a Lowy Institute poll seeing China as a ‘security threat’.]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:00:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHJ_VcgHz8cXnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHqpMHIVqIeTHn9ye8UNv30 Anthony Albanese said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had brought democratic nations together and ‘shown attempts to impose change by force on a sovereign country meet resistance’.]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:31:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxHqpMHIVqIeTHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGc5wGmfXzQB-T5HJgy6HUf Canberra also plans to double funding for aerial surveillance in the Pacific region to recoup US$150 million lost each year to illegal fishing, a government minister said.]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:02:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxGc5wGmfXzQB-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxFzQkAGdcMrbl1cWWor9YPv Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed the launch as the start of a ‘new era’ for the country’s space industry.]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 05:02:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Vk1XXm9RJxFzQkAGdcMrbl1cWWor9YPv