NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy will take part in the Australian maritime exercise Endeavour in October. That was a key takeaway from Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles meeting with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh on Wednesday in Delhi. Earlier Marles had visited Goa Shipyard and was briefed on the autonomous boat project being developed there. […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Australians vote on Saturday with “3Cs” on their mind: Climate Change, China and Covid. And here’s how things could go on Saturday. Incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to lose with an opinion poll last week showing his rating at -14. He is faulted for not being serious enough on climate change, […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Ambassador Anil Wadhwa, Former Secretary (East), MEA, Author of the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) Australia Economic Strategy Report in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Wadhwa discusses the second India-Australia Virtual Summit between Prime Ministers Scott Morrison and Narendra Modi, the “consequences of Russia’s invasion of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: China’s economic coercion has not deterred Australia from being a member of the Quad; the same holds true for India that also has issues with China, says Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s High Commissioner to India. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’, the Australian envoy clarified that the Quad arrangement […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Anil Wadhwa, Former Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs and Author of the CII Australia Economic Strategy Report in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India and Australia hold the inaugural 2+2 Ministerial meeting in Delhi between Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Minister of Defence Peter Dutton […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Covid assistance to India “is a reflection of your friendship, status and influence in the world,” Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to Bhutan says, adding, “on Sunday, one of our Australian Defence Force aircraft will be landing here in Delhi, with the delivery of another of the oxygen tanks […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Australia does not support the Quad becoming a Nato-style military alliance! That’s the word from Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s high commissioner to India. In a wide ranging and exclusive conversation with StratNews Global’s Parul Chandra, he gave reasons why his government felt that way. He also offered an insight into why the Australian authorities […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “I expect the Biden administration to uphold the Trump administration’s precedent with regard to arms sales to Taiwan,” says Charlie Lyons Jones at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, adding, “it would be really helpful for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.” The Trump administration notified Congress of military deals to […]Read More

Australia has held its fire despite evidence of China’s hack attack on parliament in February last year, and continued attacks on critical sectors of Australia’s economy and industry. “Australia’s position is that it will attribute attacks where it is in our national interest to do so,” said Tara Cavanagh, Minister-Counsellor, South Asia in the Department Of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Two diplomatic broadsides delivered on Twitter, underscoring once again how China’s actions in India’s Ladakh, have resonated through the world. The first from Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s high commissioner to India, who had called on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday. In a statement released to the media, the high commissioner called for […]Read More
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