AUSTRALIA needs a special minister of state responsible for overseeing national security issues that criss-cross traditional portfolios such as treasu... Read more...

A confidential document outlining details of the Australian embassy building in Iraq has been posted online by the Department of Foreign Affairs and T... Read more...

 THE Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is investigating how a confidential document was posted online. The document, part of a tender p... Read more...

A confidential document outlining details of the Australian embassy building in Iraq has been posted online by the Department of Foreign Affairs and T... Read more...

Senator Russell Trood, Deputy Chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislative Committee, today called on the Prime Minister, Julia ... Read more...

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