Australia said the gesture showed Canberra is paying its way as a security partner. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Australia has made a $500 million payment to the U.S. as part of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. This demonstrates Australia's commitment as a key security partner. Both countries aim to enhance ...

Under AUKUS, Australia will pay the United States $3 billion to boost the capacity of the U.S. submarine industry, and ...

Richard Marles is heading to Washington to meet with his newly sworn-in defence counterpart in what will be the first ...

Australia has made its first AUKUS down payment to the US, transferring nearly $800m to help boost the country’s submarine ...

Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles is heading to Washington DC to talk AUKUS with his new counterpart in Donald ...

Education Minister Jason Clare has appealed to Laos authorities to accept an offer to help investigate the deaths of two ...

Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet with his Australian counterpart Richard Marles, marking Hegseth's first meeting at the ...

An investigation by Laos into the deaths of two Melbourne teens by methanol poisoning has not taken up an offer of help from ...

Defence Minister Richard Marles will travel to the US to meet his American counterpart Pete Hegseth and senior members of the ...

Melbourne teenagers Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, both aged 19, died after ingesting tainted alcohol in the tourist town of Vang Vieng in November.