NEW DELHI: The joint statement issued at the end of the meeting of Quad heads of state in Hiroshima, Japan, over the weekend, suggests the grouping is coming into its own. From infrastructure to setting and sharing technology standards, from cyber security to health security, the list of Quad-driven initiatives is expanding, indicating that working […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If there was one issue Australia’s visiting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would have preferred to avoid, was the spate of Khalistani attacks on Indian temples in his home country. With at least five reported in the last two months, Albanese was notably silent when his counterpart Narendra Modi brought it up during the […]Read More
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
NEW DELHI: Widening mistrust between Delhi and Beijing fuelled by an assertive President Xi Jinping has compelled India to enlist the support of others. Former diplomat turned academic Prof. Rory Medcalf of Canberra-based Australian National University told StratNews Global in an interview after the Modi-Morrison virtual summit on June 4 that the elevation of ties to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How has India’s foreign policy changed since Narendra Modi took charge as prime minister in 2014? And what has it achieved? There’s some continuity with the foreign policy of the earlier government (led by Manmohan Singh) but it aspires to be transformational, says Australian academic Dr Ian Hall, speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Until COVID-19 struck the world, who would’ve imagined that the prime ministers of India and Australia would be forced to hold a virtual summit? Or the two would discuss their tensions with China? Given that, it’s clear Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison will be hoping to further crank up their security cooperation in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia and China are at daggers drawn following Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s demand for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. He also called for the overhaul of the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is accused of pandering to Beijing by not calling out the pandemic earlier. China has responded with threats […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia and China are two countries with deep economic linkages that go back many years. These linkages have been mutually beneficial for both countries so much so that Australia’s largest trading partner is China. And yet, regardless of this inter-dependence, relations between the two countries have nose-dived after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanded […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia appears to have done pretty well dealing with the coronavirus. The death toll is around 60 with 6335 infected and 238 in hospital. But the authorities are keeping their eye on the ball, wary that since the Easter weekend saw no testing, the toll could rise. Mosiqi Acharya, a producer and journalist […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Australia’s envoy to India Harinder Sidhu prepares to leave New Delhi for Canberra on completion of her four-year tenure, she feels satisfied with the trajectory of bilateral ties. It isn’t only the professional aspects of her India stint that would give the Arabic-speaking Sidhu reason to be pleased. She also had the opportunity […]Read More
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